Blood, Sweat & Tears 3

Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 is the third album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in June 1970.

History
After the huge success of the previous album, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was highly anticipated and it rose quickly to the top of the US album chart. It contained two hit singles: an arrangement of Carole King's "Hi-De-Ho", and "Lucretia MacEvil", written by singer David Clayton-Thomas. As with their previous album, this one relied mostly on songs borrowed from outside writers. However, It received fewer favorable reviews.

Reception
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau panned David Clayton-Thomas's singing as "belching", while calling "Symphony for the Devil" a "pretty good rock and roll song revealed as a pseudohistorical middlebrow muddle when suite-ened." Allmusic's William Ruhlman called the album "a convincing, if not quite as impressive, companion to their previous hit. David Clayton-Thomas remained an enthusiastic blues shouter, and the band still managed to put together lively arrangements... although their pretentiousness, on the extended "Symphony/Sympathy for the Devil," and their tendency to borrow other artists' better-known material rather than generating more of their own, were warning signs for the future."

Side One

 * 1) "Hi-De-Ho" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 4:27
 * 2) "The Battle" (Dick Halligan, Steve Katz) – 2:41
 * 3) "Lucretia MacEvil" (David Clayton-Thomas) – 3:04
 * 4) "Lucretia's Reprise" (Blood, Sweat & Tears) – 2:35
 * 5) "Fire and Rain" (James Taylor) – 4:03
 * 6) "Lonesome Suzie" (Richard Manuel) – 4:36

Side Two

 * 1) "Symphony for the Devil" (Dick Halligan) / "Sympathy for the Devil" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 7:49
 * 2) "He's a Runner" (Laura Nyro) – 4:14
 * 3) "Somethin' Comin' On" (Joe Cocker, Chris Stainton) – 4:33
 * 4) "40,000 Headmen" (Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi) – 4:44

Personnel

 * David Clayton-Thomas - lead vocals (all but 2)
 * Steve Katz - guitar, lead vocals (2), harmonica
 * Jim Fielder - bass guitar
 * Dick Halligan - organ, piano, electric piano, harpsichord, back vocals,recorder, celeste, trombone, flute, alto flute,
 * Fred Lipsius - alto saxophone, piano, electric piano, music box, back vocals
 * Lew Soloff - trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
 * Chuck Winfield - trumpet, flugelhorn
 * Jerry Hyman - trombone, bass trombone, baritone horn
 * Bobby Colomby - drums, backing vocals, percussion

Production

 * Producers: Bobby Colomby, Roy Halee
 * Engineers: Roy Halee, Lou Waxman
 * Arrangers: David Clayton-Thomas, Bobby Colomby, Jim Fielder, Dick Halligan, Fred Lipsius
 * Design: John Berg
 * Photography: Lee Friedlander, Melissa Katz, Fred Lombardi

Charts
Album - Billboard (United States)

Singles - Billboard (United States)