Track Listing

1. Gotta Find a Way
2. Castle of Thought
3. Fatback
4. Double Cross
5. Timepiece
6. Wicked Truth
7. Gimme Your Head
8. Fantastic Piece of Architecture
9. Melvin Laid an Egg

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #48102 in Music
• Released on: 1995-05-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
1995 reissue on One Way of the hard rockin' Texans' debut album, originally released on Capitol in 1969. Contains the original artwork and all nine of the record's original tracks, including 'Gotta Find A Way' & 'Castle Of Thoughts'.

Customer Reviews

Original Hard Rock!
Great opening album by one of the most under rated bands of that time, here you see the original creators of Hard Rock and this being the first of many fine albums to come. The vocals are trend setting by Jim Rutledge who also did the drum work on this first album, a rockers voice by all means. The guitar work by Lee Pickens is fine although not as refined as his later work it stands and sits just fine. The mystical rockers Time Piece, and Melvin are great compositions and Fatback and Double Cross are real shakers. The band only got better with time and my favorite will always be 'BloodRock 2', sadly they recorded as BloodRock without Jim Rutledge and Lee Pickens for the last two albums and then faded into the Rock n Roll sun. But this is fine effort for starters.

Texas version of Deep Purple
Emerging from Texas in 1969, Bloodrock, along with ZZ Top, went out to prove that good ol' boys could rock every bit as good as any English band at the time. And with the interplay of their music centering around the excellent guitar work of Lee Pickens and keyboard playing of Stevie Hill, it reminds one a lot of the bouts between guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and organist Jon Lord in Deep Purple. But I would argue that Lee Pickens is a much better, and more soulful, guitar player than

Ritchie Blackmore, and probably one of the most underrated guitar players of his era. It's a shame that Bloodrock's two best musicians, Pickens and Hill, didn't have a career after Bloodrock had faded away, because they could have been somebody. No offense to the rest of Bloodrock, but if you like that "Deep Purple sound"--that interplay between guitar and organ, you'll love this album. And who knows, you might even like this better!

prime early metal
An under-appreciated rival to the big names,to me they are as hard & heavy as Uriah Heep.Crank it up and get your beer buddies.Great musicians.I like "Double Cross" and "Gotta Find A Way" is a great album-opener.Give it a shot!