New City(album)

New City
Studio albumby Blood, Sweat & Tears
Released	April 1975
Genre	Rock,jazz
Length	43:09
Label	Columbia
Producer	Jimmy Ienner
Blood, Sweat & Tearschronology
Mirror Image (1974) New City (1975) In Concert (1976)

New Cityis the eighth album by the bandBlood, Sweat & Tears,released byColumbia Recordsin April 1975. It peaked at Number 47 on theBillboardPop Albums charts.

New Citymarks the return to the line-up of lead vocalistDavid Clayton-Thomas.

Reception

Professional ratings

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Allmusic

Writing forAllmusic,critic Jason Elias wrote the album "It does sound promising, but, in all honesty, New City's fortunes seemed doomed from the start."

Release history

In addition to the conventional two channelstereoversion the album was also released by Columbia in a four channelquadraphonicedition onLP recordand8-track tapein 1975. The quad LP release was encoded in theSQmatrix system.

New Citywas reissued in the UK on theSuper Audio CDformat in 2019 byDutton Vocalion.This release is a two albums on one disc compilation which also contains the 1974 Blood Sweat & Tears albumMirror Image.The Dutton Vocalion disc contains the complete stereo and quad versions of both albums.

Track listing

1. "Ride Captain Ride"(Skip Konte, Franke Konte, Mike Pinera, Carlos Pinera) – 5:06
2. "Life" (Allen Toussaint) – 4:24
3. "No Show" (Ron McClure) – 5:15
4. "I Was a Witness to a War" (Danny Meehan, Bobby Scott) – 5:13
5. "One Room Country Shack" (John Lee Hooker,Traditional) – 2:24
6. "Applause" (Janis Ian) – 7:47
7. "Yesterday's Music" (Clayton-Thomas, William Smith) – 4:14
8. "Naked Man" (Randy Newman) – 4:00
9. "Got to Get You into My Life"(John Lennon,Paul McCartney) – 3:22
10. "Takin' It Home" (Bobby Colomby) – 1:37

Personnel

• David Clayton-Thomas– vocals
• Dave Bargeron–trombone,tuba,baritone horn, bass trumpet
• Bobby Colomby–drums,percussion,background vocals
• Joe Giorgianni –trumpet,flugelhorn,piccolo trumpet
• Tony Klatka – trumpet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet
• Ron McClure– bass
• Bill Tillman –saxophone,background vocals
• Georg Wadenius–guitar,background vocals
• Larry Willis– keyboards
• Mike Corbett – background vocals

Production notes

• Jimmy Ienner – producer
• Greg Calbi– engineer
• Tom Dwyer – assistant
• Rod O'Brien – assistant engineer
• Carmine Rubino – engineer
• Shelly Yakus– engineer

Charts

Album-Billboard(United States)

Year	Chart	Position
1975	Pop Albums	47