Bloodrock was an American hard rock band based in Fort Worth, Texas, that had success in the 1970s.

They toured the region playing at battle of the bands, opened locally for national acts like The Beach Boys, Paul Revere & The Raiders, and The Five Americans, and released their first single in 1965 "Hey Girl" b/w "I Want You" (Rebel MME 1003).

Shortly after the first album was recorded, Rutledge (at Knight's behest) moved from behind the drum set to take on lead vocal duties exclusively.

also gave the band considerable regional exposure throughout the Southwest and West, particularly in Texas and Southern California.

Nick Taylor quit the group, and he was replaced by Warren's brother, Bill Ham, and Randy Reader was replaced by Matt Betton, an album, later titled Unspoken Words, was recorded, but Capitol rejected the material due to the group’s waning popularity, and the recordings would go unreleased until 2000 when it was included as part of the CD release Triptych (along with cuts from Passage and Whirlwind Tongues).

The band would break-up not long after they were dropped by Capitol, they performed their last gig on April 14, 1974 in Flint, Michigan.

[7] After the breakup, Rutledge, Pickens, and Taylor hired a rhythm section and briefly formed a Bloodrock spinoff group, performing in small clubs for about a year.

Initially led by Rutledge, the group lasted long enough to record some demos, including a cover of Heartbreak Hotel, Rutledge eventually dropped out, and was replaced by Rusty Robertson, a friend of Pickens, but due to lack of label interest, and the departure of Cobb, the band called it quits.

[8] A reunion concert featuring all five members of the original lineup (Jim Rutledge, Lee Pickens, Ed Grundy, Nick Taylor, and Stevie Hill), plus Chris Taylor (Nick's son) in place of drummer Rick Cobb III from the classic six-member lineup, was held on March 12, 2005, in Fort Worth, for the benefit of their keyboardist Stevie Hill, to help with medical costs related to his combating leukemia.

[1] Bloodrock's 1970 self-titled debut album was described in the context of hard rock and early heavy metal by AllMusic's Donald A.

[12][13] The band's 1972 personnel changes shifted them toward prog rock (like Jethro Tull), jazz and pop music.