Blood - The Bottom Line New York 1977 (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Audience (Live)
02. Instrumental (Live)
03. Hi De Ho (Live)
04. Gimme That Wine (Live)
05. Spinning Wheel (Live)
06. Don't Explain (Live)
07. Matso Yuma Mama (Live)
08. Lucretia Mcevil (Live)
09. Blue Street (Live)
10. And When I Die (Live)
11. Tuba Solo / Blues (Live)
12. And When I Die (Reprise) (Live)
13. Drum Solo (Live)
14. Bass Solo (Live)
15. Jam / Introductions (Live)
16. Mean Ole World (Live)
17. You've Made Me So Very Happy (Live)


 moreThat first version of Blood, Sweat & Tears played music that roamed
freely through realms of jazz, R&B, soul, and even psychedelia in ways that had
scarcely been heard before in one band. The songs were bold and challenging, and
the arrangements gave Lipsius, Brecker, et. al room to solo, while Kooper's
organ and Katz's guitar swelled in pulsing, shimmering glory. Their debut, Child
Is Father to the Man, was released in February 1968, and seemed to portend a
great future. The only thing it didn't have was a hit single to get AM radio
play and help drive sales.

Disagreements about repertory grew into doubts about Kooper's ability as a lead
singer, and soon split this band. Kooper left in March of 1968, and Brecker
followed him out. That might've been the end of the story, except that Colomby
and Katz decided to salvage a band of their own band out of this debacle. The
lineup was reshuffled and expanded, and for a lead singer they found a Canadian
national named David Clayton-Thomas.

The new Blood, Sweat & Tears recorded their album in late 1968. Blood, Sweat &
Tears, released in January 1969, was smoother and more traditionally melodic
than its predecessor. Equally important, the singles from the album were edited,
removing the featured spots for the jazz players. "You've Made Me So Very Happy"
rose to number two and lofted the album to the top of the LP listings. "Spinning
Wheel" b/w "More and More" and "And When I Die" followed, and when the smoke
cleared, the album had yielded a career's worth of hits. The LP also won the
Grammy as Album of the Year, selling three million copies in the bargain.

In the spring of 1970, however, the group lost a huge amount of momentum with
its core audience, college students, when they undertook a tour of Eastern
Europe on behalf of the U.S. State Department. The Vietnam War was still raging,
and anything to do with the government was potentially poisonous on college
campuses. It was on their return to America, amid this dubious career move --
which was done to overcome the problem of Clayton-Thomas' shaky immigration
status -- that Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 was released. It briefly topped the LP
charts, and the single "Hi-De-Ho" reached number 14, but both sold only a
fraction of what their earlier releases had done. Additionally, the group was
now criticized in the rock press, which felt that Blood, Sweat & Tears were
either a pretentious pop group that dabbled in horn riffs, or a jazz outfit
trying to pass as a rock band. The group's decision to perform at a Las Vegas
casino -- which even upset the head of Columbia Records, Clive Davis -- did
nothing to defuse these doubts.

Clayton-Thomas exited after the fourth album to pursue a solo career. Most of
the group's original and second-generation players were gone by then as well,
though the playing standard remained consistently high. The lineup became a
revolving door -- even Jaco Pastorius passed through their ranks, briefly -- and
the group's record sales imploded, squeezed as they were by Chicago on the pop
side of jazz-rock, and outfits such as Weather Report and Return to Forever on
the more musically ambitious side of the spectrum. Clayton-Thomas returned in
1974, to what was billed officially as "Blood, Sweat & Tears Featuring David
Clayton-Thomas." They released New City (1975), which did well enough to justify
an ambitious tour that yielded the double-LP Live and Improvised. Columbia
Records dropped the group in 1976, and even Bobby Colomby, who had trademarked
the group's name, gave up playing with them. Clayton-Thomas has kept the group
name alive in the decades since, fronting various lineups. © Bruce Eder



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