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Released
  
Oct 1972

New Blood (1972)
  
No Sweat (1973)

Release date
  
October 1972

Label
  
Columbia Records

Length
  
40:16

Artist
  
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Producer
  
Bobby Colomby

Genre
  
Rock music

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Recorded
  
Columbia Studios, New York City

Similar
  
Blood - Sweat & Tears albums, Rock music albums

New Blood is the fifth album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1972.

Contents

With David Clayton-Thomas leaving as lead vocalist to pursue a solo career after the release of BS&T 4, a nearly wholesale personnel change occurred for New Blood. Difficulties had arisen inside the group between its pop-rock and jazz factions, with Clayton-Thomas choosing to leave in early January 1972, along with founding member Fred Lipsius. Clayton-Thomas was briefly replaced by Bobby Doyle, and a photo of the band appeared in Down Beat showing a new lineup also including noted jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson. By the time the album was recorded, Jerry Fisher had become the new singer replacing Doyle (who guested on piano on "Touch Me" and "Velvet"), whilst founding member Dick Halligan also departed, as well as Henderson.

The album reached the top-40 charts (the last BS&T LP to do so) and spawned a single, "So Long Dixie", which peaked at number 44. The album's cover, painted by Bob Schulenberg and Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean, portrays two male peacocks sitting on a garden wall - a common Indian peacock and a white peacock.

New Blood was re-released on CD in 2005 on the Wounded Bird label.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, critic Ross Boissoneau wrote of the album "The band vocals on "Touch Me" and the arrangement of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" are among the highlights, but then there's Bob Dylan's "Down in the Flood" and Steve Katz's "Velvet". Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Snow Queen" almost makes up for it, with sensational solos from Dave Bargeron on trombone and Lou Marini on sax."

Track listing

  1. "Down in the Flood" (Bob Dylan) – 4:21
  2. "Touch Me" (Victoria Pike, Teddy Randazzo) – 3:33
  3. "Alone" (Lou Marini) – 5:29
  4. "Velvet" (Jeff Kent) – 3:31
  5. "I Can't Move No Mountains" (Michael Gately, Robert John) – 2:58
  6. "Over the Hill" (Dave Bargeron) – 4:20
  7. "So Long Dixie" (Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil) – 4:28
  8. "Snow Queen" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 5:24
  9. "Maiden Voyage" (Herbie Hancock) – 6:14

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
  • Steve Katz - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, lead vocal on "Velvet"
  • Lou Marini - woodwinds
  • Lew Soloff - trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
  • Chuck Winfield - trumpet, flugelhorn, French horn, background vocals
  • Georg Wadenius – guitar,background vocals
  • Larry Willis – keyboards
  • Bobby Doyle – piano (on "Touch Me" and "Velvet")

    • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Down in the Flood4:20
    2Touch Me3:26
    3Alone5:40

    References

    New Blood (Blood, Sweat & Tears album) Wikipedia
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