Blood, Sweat & Tears - Nuclear Blues [MCA Records L33-1865] (1980)

Released: 1980
Country: US
Label: MCA Records
Catalog: L33-1865
Genre: Rock / Pop

Item# SR-MCL331865
Ratings: C=VG+; LP=VG+


T R A C K L I S T:
01 Agitato
02 Nuclear Blues
03 Manic Depression
04 I'll Drown In My Own Tears
05 Fantasy Stage
06 (Suite) Spanish Wine




Nuclear Blues
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Album Review

This 1980 edition of rock's longest-running horn band is definitely not your father's Blood, Sweat & Tears. Frontman David Clayton-Thomas is still on board, but everybody else is new.

The musical emphasis has mostly shifted, from pop/soul with a jazz flavor to out-and-out fusion jazz, such as ''Agitato,'' and the lengthy and often quite lovely ''Spanish Wine'' suite, with only an occasional lead vocal (a radically re-arranged cover of Jimi Hendrix's ''Manic Depression''). Big exceptions include the title tune, in which Clayton-Thomas vents his paranoia about Three Mile Island, and an impassioned, if relatively straightforward, cover of the old blues standard ''I'll Drown In My Own Tears.'' [allmusic.com]