[2] The Australian music journalist Ian McFarlane wrote, "Bloodstone featured singer-song writer rock mixed with folk and US West Coast country-rock influences and with Morris having written every track.....

It featured an all-star cast of session players from the upper echelons of the then current Aussie rock fraternity.....

The front cover presented a design by artist Geoff Pendelbury, one of those impressionistic art pieces that were fashionable back in the day but seem to be too esoteric and oblique to have any real significance or impact now..... Bloodstone is somewhat more down-home and modest without losing sight of certain lofty intentions.

Song titles such as 'Saints and Sinners', 'Our Hero is Dead', 'Heaven Shines', 'The Cell' and 'Ride Your Chariot' bear the brush of an earnest and serious young artist finding his way in an already established world of adult contemporary pop-rock.

"[3] The Australian said, ""Sweet, Sweet Love" dragged Bloodstone into the charts towards the end of 1971, but its tales of humanity’s lost ("O Helley", "The Gambler’s Lament") and found ("The Cell", "Heaven Shines") show how fully formed Morris's song craft was at just age 23.