Battle Hymn

Well, saw these guys open for Sabbath and Yes. Was always a Jethro Tull fan, and to this day still can't figure out what happened to Glenn Cornick. This is pretty good music from him and his band.

Great CD!! Great Seller!!!!

Wild Turkey "Battle Hymn", is excellent British folk-rock. The late Glenn Cornick (who died just a few months ago), was in Jethro Tull from 1968-1970, formed this band in 1971 after being axed from the Tull. If you like British folk-rock this will be a good album for you. Excellent playing throughout. The vocals by the late Gary Pickford-Hopkins are very subdued, but this is 70's prog-rock-folk, it least it's not screaming vocals like today's artists. The guitarist Jon Blackmore is very strong, (not related to Richie), keeps the disc flowing. Produced by Roger Bain who did Black Sabbath, but Cornick said he didn't care for his rushed production style.My favorite tracks on the album were, "Butterfly", Dulwich Fox", "To The Stars", Sanctuary", the title track and "Sentinel". After another album with Wild Turkey, Glenn would join Bob Welch in the band Paris. Solid 4 star release.

i like it

Good

Former Jethro Tull members

was so happy to finally find this on cd. it came in great (new) condition & well before the date stated. will order from them again!

This is a sloppy version of such stuff by Jethro Tull, regarding their folk rock period, with a few excursions into the classic hard rock style..."Twelve streets of Cobbled black" is a typical example of this latter,instead "To the stars", characterized by a tasty piano and a flamboyant finale, is an interesting track, which is closer to some classic prog stuff, if you regard the spirit of a few 70's bands working in progress. But in general this issue is not completely remarkable, as for the presence of some usual riffs and melodies,you can often hear within the classic rock/hard rock UK scene, in the course of the seventies.If you look into the past (a glance into the music of J.Anderson&C. in the early 70's), you should remain quite perplex...probably Glen Cornick made his first attempt to create a band in the vein of Jethro Tull, after leaving them on 1970(actually I don't know whether this was his true intention or not), but the output was not as much solid and worthy as the best stuff by J.Tull!!That is, his true intention was to perform a sort of heavy progressive rock with hints of folk acoustic music ...but you can imagine, regarding the present derivative work, how it was embraced by the whole J.Tull fans, and then rejected!! Instead the lovers of some tunes by Fairport Convention, regarded as quite attractive a few bunches of folk rock produced by Wild Turkey. Moreover the title track was the combination of heavy and acoustic music, which could appeal both to the fans of Fairport Convention and a few lovers of Jethro Tull as well... finally I like to make a particular mention, regarding such a glittering organ and harpsichord too, perfomed within "Gentle Rain", another piece reminding of some classic 70's proto-prog/classic prog stuff, which is worth checking out at least!!Interesting but absolutely not essential album of the seventies!!

Mon frère recherchait cet album et il est très satisfait.

This is such a good album. I wish it was better known. I taped someone else's copy back in the late '70s, then found a used vinyl LP a few years ago. Discovered it wasn't on Apple Music, so bought this CD. It feels like a real rarity; one of those great British blues-influenced one-off rock albums that regularly appeared at the time. The folky 'Dulwich Fox' is mesmerising - I can listen to it again and again. But then I've had the whole album on repeat in my car since it dropped through my letter box.

Un clásico, ideal coleccionistas de joyas de la discografía.

What a great debut album from Glenn the bass player from Jethro Tull who left to form Wild Turkey. Battle Hymn was a great record right out of the box. Glad to see its come to CD now to enjoy.

I have given this 5 stars even though " the production" could have been a lot better but to be fair this is not the fault of the band.I bought this album on its release in 1972 and this re-mastered edition is a very good improvement.A clear theme about the total waste of life that war causes - there are no winners!A really good mix of Folk/Rock but predominantly Rock and Gary Pickford Hopkins wonderful vocals particularly stand out.If you did not hear this album the first time round - do try it now - you may well be very impressed!