[1] Released in late 1972, Stoneground 3 sold poorly and the band was dropped by Warner Bros.[2] With no label and escalating tensions within the group, Stoneground played a final concert on January 6, 1973 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.

[4] Band members Cory Lerios and Steve Price left and formed a new group, Pablo Cruise.

[2] The remaining members also departed except for Tim Barnes and Annie Sampson, who reformed Stoneground with a new roster later that year.

[5] Bob Koch of Isthmus wrote that album track "From a Sad Man into a Deep Blue Sea" is possibly Valentino's finest Stoneground composition.

He also claimed that Stoneground 3 is the band's "most coherent-sounding album due to the more unified sound," but was unsure "whether that coherency is an improvement over their earlier more free-wheeling efforts.