{{Use mdy dates |date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Bloodrock 2 | type = Album | artist = Bloodrock | cover = Bloodrock - Bloodrock 2 album cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{start date|1970|10|05}}<ref name="RIAA">{{Cite web |title=Gold & Platinum |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=Bloodrock#search_section |access-date=2025-06-04 |website=RIAA |language=en-US}}</ref> | recorded = Summer 1970 | venue = | studio = | genre = Hard rock<ref name="AllMuscic">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=r30888 |tab=review |first=Donald A |last=Guarisco |label=Bloodrock: ''Bloodrock 2'' – Review |access-date=2011-07-14 }}</ref> | length = 43:08 | label = Capitol<ref name="Capitol">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vBVjDwAAQBAJ&q=Bloodrock+2+1970&pg=PA1981 |title=Goldmine Record Album Price Guide |first=Martin |last=Popoff |date=2009-09-08 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-4402-2916-9}}</ref> | producer = Terry Knight | prev_title = Bloodrock | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = Bloodrock 3 | next_year = 1971 | misc = {{Singles | name = Bloodrock 2 | type = studio | single1 = D.O.A. | single1date = March 1971 }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="AllMuscic" /> }}
'''''Bloodrock 2''''' is the second album by the Texas rock band Bloodrock,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CE8xiT3pV6QC&q=Bloodrock+2+1970&pg=PT1359 |title=Handbook of Texas Music |first=Laurie E. |last=Jasinski |date=2012-02-22 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |isbn=978-0-87611-297-7 |via=Google Books}}</ref> released on October 5, 1970, through Capitol Records. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on January 3, 1990.<ref name="RIAA" />
== Background == In Spring 1971, the gory extended album track "D.O.A." became the biggest hit of Bloodrock's career when it was issued in edited form as a single.
The motivation for writing the song was explained in 2005 by guitarist Lee Pickens. "When I was 17, I wanted to be an airline pilot," Pickens said. "I had just gotten out of this airplane with a friend of mine, at this little airport, and I watched him take off. He went about 200 feet in the air, rolled and crashed."<ref>Wheeler, Lisa. “Grapevine: I Remember . . . Bloodrock Reunite”. Goldmine 31 (18 March 2005): 10, 51.</ref>
== Chart performance == On ''RPM''{{'}}s Canada Top Albums chart, the album peaked at No. 54. In the USA, the album charted on two different charts, on ''Billboard'''s Top LP's the album peaked at No. 21, during a thirty seven-week run on the chart,<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1972 | year = 1973 | publisher = Record Research | page = 20 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/20/mode/2up | access-date = 2025-07-10}}</ref> and on the ''Cashbox'' Top 100 Albums it peaked at No. 30, during a twenty eight-week run on the chart.<ref name="CB">{{Cite book |last=Hoffmann |first=Frank W |url=https://archive.org/details/cashboxalbumchar0000hoff/page/36/mode/2up |title=The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 |date=1988 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-2005-6 |location=Metuchen, N.J. |pages=36}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | headline = Side one | title1 = Lucky in the Morning | writer1 = John Nitzinger | length1 = 5:48 | title2 = Cheater | writer2 = Bloodrock | length2 = 6:52 | title3 = Sable and Pearl | writer3 = Nitzinger | length3 = 4:58 | title4 = Fallin{{'-}} | writer4 = Bloodrock | length4 = 4:06 }} {{Track listing | headline = Side two | title1 = Children's Heritage | writer1 = Nitzinger | length1 = 3:34 | title2 = Dier Not a Lover | writer2 = Lee Pickens, Stevie Hill, Sam Gummelt | length2 = 4:10 | title3 = D.O.A. | writer3 = Bloodrock | length3 = 8:30 | title4 = Fancy Space Odyssey | writer4 = Nitzinger | length4 = 5:11 | total_length = 43:08 }}
==Personnel== ;Bloodrock * Jim Rutledge – lead vocals * Lee Pickens – lead guitar * Nick Taylor – rhythm guitar, vocals * Eddie Grundy — bass, vocals * Stevie Hill – keyboards, vocals * Rick Cobb – drums
;Additional personnel * Kenneth Hamann – engineering * Terry Knight – production
==Charts== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |- !scope="col" |Chart (1970–71) !scope="col" |Peak <br> position |- {{album chart |Canada |54 |artist=Bloodrock |album=Bloodrock 2 |chartid=3750 |rowheader=true |access-date=2024-09-20}} |- {{album chart |Billboard200 |21 |artist=Bloodrock |rowheader=true |access-date=2024-09-20}} |- | align="left"|US ''Cashox'' Top 100 Albums<ref name="CB"/> | 30 |- |}
==Certifications== {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry |type=album |region=United States |artist=Bloodrock |title=Bloordrock 2 |award=Gold |relyear=1970}} {{Certification Table Bottom |nosales=true}}
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