Black Rock is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer, recorded in 1982 and released on the Columbia label.

Robert Palmer of The New York Times praised the album upon its release, writing that "James (Blood) Ulmer's Black Rock actually lives up to its title...On the first side in particular, Mr. Ulmer, his wonderfully deft and mobile rhythm section, and his wife, the vocalist Irene Datcher, conspire to rethink guitar-band rock as radically as his earlier records rethought jazz-rock and funk.

"[2] In The Boston Phoenix, Milo Miles wrote: "On his new Black Rock, Ulmer has baited songs with unmistakable funk-rock hooks without giving in to verse/chorus/verse structure, and he’s made his peace with pop.

He’s cleared away several layers of intrusive clutter; saxophone parts are pared down (reedman Sam Sanders appears on only two cuts), and Weston and Ali provide lively but linear support.

[4] Trouser Press described both Black Rock and the previous Free Lancing as "technical masterpieces, making up in precision what they lack in emotion (as compared to Are You Glad to Be in America?).