★★★★★
By the time these East Coast jazz funkateers convened in 1972 to make their fifth studio album, David Clayton-Thomas had jumped ship and his vocal parts were thrust upon Jerry Fisher, leaving drummer Bobby Colomby to steer an uneasy path for the band...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
This slipcased one-two, led by singing Jerries (Fisher and LaCroix), sees the multi-instrumental, multi-member unit in transition - both in terms of personnel and direction. Disco crept into the picture on Mirror Image's opening, strings-laden cut, Tell Me That I'm Wrong. Funk keys and a meandering rhythm section follow in Look Up To The Sky, before the Randy Newman-lite ballad, Hold On To Me...
- www.recordcollectormag.com
2011-01-03
★★★★★
Although they would go on to become one of the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, most observers agree that Blood, Sweat & Tears' 1968 debut effort Child Is Father to the Man remains the ambitious ensemble's finest and most enduring musical statement...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Blood Sweat & Tears Child is Father to the Man Columbia 1968 Most people remember Blood Sweat & Tears as the incarnation led by the gravel-voiced white blues of David Clayton-Thomas. During his tenure as leader, the hits "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die," and "Hi-De-Ho" helped to bring pop/rock/jazz to mainstream audiences...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
"Although they would go on to become one of the most commercially successful acts of the 1970s, most observers agree that Blood, Sweat & Tears' 1968 debut effort Child Is Father to the Man remains the ambitious ensemble's finest and most enduring musical statement...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-10-23
★★★★★
As with Engelbert Humperdinck, their pop success does them more good in Vegas than on the radio, and only four of these eleven cuts made top twenty. Highlights: "Lisa, Listen to Me" and "I Can't Quit Her," neither of which made top hundred--and both of which make me appreciate Al Kooper very much.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Just figured out how David Clayton-Thomas learned vocal projection: by belching. That's why when he gets really excited he sounds as if he's about to throw up. But it's only part of the reason he gets me so excited I feel like I'm about to throw up. The whole band commits "Symphony for the Devil," a pretty good rock and roll song revealed as a pseudohistorical middlebrow muddle when suite-ened. And just who added themes by Bartok, Prokofiev, Thelonious, and Fred Lewis (Fred Lewis...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
When Ed Sullivan welcomed Blood, Sweat & Tears to his show a while back he asked them where they got the unusual name from. From Churchill, they replied. Well, since the Kinks did Arthur, everybody knows Churchill isn't worth very much anymore, so as a result the name has been immeasurably weakened. So maybe they ought to shorten it (names of groups are too long nowadays) to just Tears. After all it's the Tears that have always been their most vital component...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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