3 - Blood Sweat And Tears (1970)

Ideated from: a favorite album that starts with a “3”

I bought this ages ago, on vinyl at a thrift shop while visiting my Grandma in Oakland, NE. So glad I did.

This isn’t a highly rated album on Allmusic, but it seems to me mostly in the context of “not as exciting as the first two records.” If you don’t mind that there isn’t much of their own material, or that original founder Al Kooper is no longer around, there is a lot of gritty, dynamic, muscular jazz-rock on this double LP.

Tracks I Liked

Lucretia MacEvil - one of the few originals on the album, but a serious banger

Fire And Rain - a pleasant, soulful take on the James Taylor tune

Symphony For the Devil - A suite of rather interesting modern jazz that climaxes in a cover of the Stones’ Sympathy For the Devil

40,000 Headmen - an under-appreciated Traffic song, with a blistering electric funk treatment

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