Blood, Sweat & Tears – Bloodlines
Analogue Productions box set tells the story behind the groundbreaking horn band!
Four album 33 RPM set includes
Child Is Father To The Man
Blood, Sweat & Tears Self-Titled
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
B, S & T 4
In-depth essay by lead singer David Clayton-Thomas highlights booklet with rare photos
LPs mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original master tapes
Quality Record Pressings plating by Gary Salstrom, pressed on 200-gram audiophile vinyl
Housed in a custom designed deluxe hinged box
“There you have it! The first four BS&T records cut by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the master tapes and pressed on 200g vinyl at QRP. I thought a 1A pressing of the first album couldn’t be bettered but that was wrong. This one does. … I did compare the second album here to the double 45 from ORG cut by Bernie Grundman from a copy of the master and it’s somewhat warmer and softer, particularly in the mid-bass but I prefered this newest version. The other two (albums) are equally good compared to nothing because I don’t have originals. … That said, this boxed set gives you the first four albums packaged better than ever with gatefold jackets containing great photographs and as best as I can tell, also sounding better than ever as best as I can tell. Ryan K. Smith did a great job here for sure.” Music = 8/11; Sound = 10/11 – Michael Fremer, AnalogPlanet.com. Read the whole review here.
David Clayton-Thomas landed in New York City in 1966, drawn from his native Canada to appear on the NBC network TV show “Hullabaloo” as a guest of fellow Canadian Paul Anka. Anka wanted a Canadian band to feature on the show and Clayton-Thomas fronted a jazz/rock band called The Bossmen — “we had the number one record in Canada at the time.”
Clayton-Thomas returned to Toronto after the show but the creative scene in the Big Apple beckoned. He got a NYC gig playing guitar for John Lee Hooker — and in the funky clubs of Greenwich Village he met several founding members of what was to become a chart-dominating jazz fusion band with an utterly distinctive sound — Blood, Sweat & Tears.
For a brief period at the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s, Blood, Sweat & Tears, which fused a rock ‘n’ roll rhythm section to a horn section, stormed the pop charts. Clayton-Thomas joined this stellar group of musicians in 1969, bringing a handful of new songs as they delivered the monumental Grammy Album of the Year Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Now hear the music and read the complete story about how this legendary band succeeded, from the ultimate BS&T insider — David Clayton-Thomas himself! Bloodlines, from Analogue Productions captures the BS&T sound as never before, on four remastered LPs — Child Is Father To The Man, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blood, Sweat & Tears 3 and B, S & T 4. Each album was remastered from the original master tapes by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound in New York, and each was plated and pressed on deluxe 200-gram heavyweight vinyl at our own Quality Record Pressings, maker of the world’s finest-sounding LPs. The jackets — from Stoughton Printing — are top-of-the-line, old-style tip-on showcasing immaculately reproduced artwork. The whole set comes in a custom-designed deluxe hinged box.
Format : Vinyl Record
4 Lp
EAN/UPC : 753088278013
