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No Sweat
No Sweat
Studio album by Blood, Sweat & Tears
Released	August 1973
Studio	Electric Lady, New York City; Trident, London;
Genre	Rock, jazz
Label	Columbia
Producer	Steve Tyrell
Blood, Sweat & Tears chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]

No Sweat is the sixth album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1973.^[2]

By mid-1973, Steve Katz, one of the founding members of BS&T, had left the band as the members leaned further towards jazz fusion. No Sweat continued in the jazz-fusion vein and featured intricate horn work.

No Sweat was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Wounded Bird label.

Production

No Sweat was produced by Steve Tyrell.^[4] Paul Buckmaster was brought in to provide string arrangements.^[5]

Reception

AllMusic critic Ross Boissoneau wrote that the album "may be the jazziest BS&T ever."^[1] The critic for the Daily Herald wrote that "[Jerry] Fisher's gravelly voice seems the perfect replacement and, while I at first thought he tried too much to sound like Clayton-Thomas, he now appears to have evolved a strong singing style of his own."^[6]

Track listing

"Roller Coaster" (Mark James) – 3:23
"Save Our Ship" (Georg Wadenius, Cynthia Weil) – 3:43
"Django (An Excerpt)" (John Lewis) – 2:08
"Rosemary" (Randy Newman) – 3:13
"Song for John" (Lou Marini) – 2:53
"Almost Sorry" (Jeff Kent, Doug Lubahn) – 6:26
"Back Up Against the Wall" (Buddy Buie, James Cobb) – 3:21
"Hip Pickles" (Marini) – 1:31
"My Old Lady" (Wadenius, Weil) – 3:15
"Empty Pages" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) – 3:15
"Mary Miles" (Michael Rabon) – 2:26
"Inner Crisis" (Larry Willis) – 5:40

Personnel

Jerry Fisher – vocals
Dave Bargeron – trombone, tuba, bass trombone, baritone horn, background vocals
Bobby Colomby – drums, percussion, background vocals
Jim Fielder – bass, background vocals
Lou Marini – woodwinds
Lew Soloff – trumpet
Tom Malone – trumpet, ARP, 12-String fiddle
Georg Wadenius – guitar, background vocals
Larry Willis – keyboards

Additional musicians

Paul Buckmaster – synthesizer, ARP, horn arrangements, string arrangements, string conductor
David Hentschel – synthesizer, ARP
Steve Katz – guitar
Chuck Winfield – trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn
Jimmy Maelen – percussion
Frank Ricotti – percussion
Joshie Armstead – background vocals
Valerie Simpson – background vocals
Maretha Stewart – background vocals

Charts

Chart (1973)	Peak position
Billboard Top LPs	72^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Boissoneau, Ross. "No Sweat > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. p. 686.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 68.
^ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. September 29, 1973 – via Google Books.
^ "Inside Track". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. June 23, 1973 – via Google Books.
^ "No Sweat". Daily Herald: 31. August 31, 1973.
^ "Blood, Sweat & Tears". Billboard.