1973’s Bloodshot Was The J. Geil Band’s Third Studio Album, and Their First Top Ten Album. Recognized as an Artistic Highpoint for the Band. Includes Such Geils Classics as “Give It to Me,” “Southside Shuffle” and “(Ain’t Nothin’ but a) House Party”

Despite a couple of previous worthy studio efforts to their name, when ‘Bloodshot’ came out in 1973, the J Geils Band was best known for being a smokin’ hot live act, a reputation bolstered by the success of their previous album, “Live—Full House”, which was their highest-charting record to date.

But ‘Bloodshot’ changed all that—here was a studio record that captured all the raucous energy of their concerts, but tailored it into nine songs that maintained the band’s hard rockin’ R&B virtues while also displaying a rapid artistic maturation. In short, this was the album where The J. Geils Band really arrived artistically, and they were rewarded with their first Top Ten album.

Now, Real Gone Music presents this classic record in a first-time LP reissue, released on red vinyl for a limited time exactly the way early copies of the album were released back in 1973. They’ve even re-created the original labels—which were themselves re-creations of the old Atlantic Records labels—for maximum verisimilitude.