Bloodrock Albums Ranked

Bloodrock was an American hard rock band based in Fort Worth, Texas, that had success in the 1970s.^[1] The band emerged from the Fort Worth club and music scene during the early to mid-1970s. Bloodrock initially formed in Fort Worth in 1963, under the name the Naturals. This first lineup featured Jim Rutledge – drums/vocals, Nick Taylor (1946–2010) – guitar/vocals, Ed Grundy – bass/vocals, and Dean Parks – guitar. They released their first single in 1965 “Hey Girl” b/w “I Want You” (Rebel MME 1003). Shortly thereafter they changed their name to Crowd + 1 and released three more singles: “Mary Ann Regrets” b/w “Whatcha Tryin’ to Do to Me” (BOX 6604), “Don’t Hold Back” b/w “Try,” and “Circles” b/w “Most Peculiar Things.” Here are all of Bloodrock albums ranked.

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4. Bloodrock USA (1971)

“There are almost jazz-like elements in this music, weird and interesting breaks and odd changes, but all quite melodic. The singing is also better than I remembered it. All and all, this is some fabulous rock music. It is right up there with Riot’s “Fire Down Under” among a handful of outstanding harder rock albums ever recorded.”

3. Bloodrock 3 (1971)

“Bloodrock had heavy tunes. Great singing of wacky lyrics. Meticulous trebly leads. Swirling organ. Great drumming. From Ft. Worth. They kicked hard rock expertly in the early ‘70’s. The first 3 albums all rock. The fourth one gets weak. Then the later albums sounded like a different band. Sort of like how Blue Oyster Cult went limp after their first 3 albums. Unfortunately Bloodrock never had a hit like Don’t Fear the Reaper to keep the ship afloat.”

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2. Bloodrock 2 (1970)

“It is a good album. While the music itself does not deserve 5 stars the quality of the product shipped to me deserves it. The shipper deserves mega kudos, I wanted the CD for only one track and the rest is just gravy. But the gravy is really good too,”

1. Bloodrock (1970)

“This BLOODROCK offering doesn’t blow the speakers from start to finish like releases by AC/DC and JUDAS PRIEST just a few years later would but neither do PARANOID and IN ROCK. PLANET CARAVAN is as hippy dippy trippy as anything by the JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and IN ROCK has enough quiet organ passages to keep it from being an all out metal monster like the first MONTROSE offering in 1973. Listen closely to TIMEPIECE and FANTASTIC PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE and you will hear anything as doom and gloomy as Geezer Butler ever conjured up in his darkest moods.”