Customer Reviews

Battle Hymn

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I've never seen this album on cd, tho' I do have it on vinyl.
Tho it's not perfect,BATTLE HYMN is definitely a hard rock album worth seeking out. WILD TURKEY featured ex- JETHRO TULL
bassist GLEN CORNICK, who also plays keyboards and writes about
four of the songs. The album was produced by RODGER BAIN, who
produced the first three BLACK SABBATH albums,along with the
first JUDAS PRIEST album ROCKA ROLLA, so it's no surprise that
the production is very similar to those albums, albeit a little
softer.WILD TURKEY were definitely not as heavy as SABBATH or PRIEST.The sound is definitely very 70s. My favorite songs in-
clude the very heavy BUTTERFLY, which opens the album and THE
SENTINEL, a very heavy rocker that closes the album. Also worth
listening to is DULWICH FOX,a nice little acoustic guitar song
with some very pleasant vocal harmonies. The rest of this is
standard progressive hard rock, with some very good guitar play-
ing and some very nice singing from GARY PICKFORD-HOPKINS, who
would go on to sing with RICK WAKEMAN.
A good album!

If you are interested in good harmony-singing, likes good folk-hard rock-songs, then your are right to hear Glen Cornicks "Turkeys". I like it. I includes good harmony vocals, nice sound and vocals.... I gave 5 stars to this album and I am disappointed, that Turkey didn't make it to a big big group in yersterdays pop history. Regards.

I know this record from 1975. I was looking for this album for years. The music is folk orientated hard rock, the song dulwich fox is a one time favourite acoustic. The butterfly jumps in your head. Please, this record is a history of it's own.

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!

For fans of Tull, Rory Gallagher, Welch-era Fleetwood Mac, or Wishbone Ash. These guys need no introduction but for some reason never hit it big like Zep, Mac, et al, but that doesn't matter cuz the music is an original blend. Very hard to describe it, just listen & see. I find it slightly melancholy but with a beauty and appropriate moments of complicated heaviness. Features master bassist Glenn Cornick, the glistening voice of Gary Pickford-Hopkins, and guitarist Tweke Lewis. Must buy: the "Turkey" LP as well....

I had purchased this CD about a little over four years ago at a local record store in a bargain bin for $5.00. Being a big fan

of Jethro Tull and Rick Wakeman, I easily recognized a couple of names that stuck out at me, Glenn Cornick and Gary-Pickford

Hopkins. Gary had played on Wakeman's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" album, and of course, Glenn with Tull. After gett-

ing this CD, I had picked up "Turkey." I thought "Battle Hymn" was far better than this, as all the songs on there are pretty

well thought out. The opening track really comes at you. Dulwich Fox is a nice little tune that is quite mellow and laid back,

and seems to put a perspective on how life could be so plain and simple. Overall, every track does have some impact on what

could be the group's finest moment in their history of art rock. A good rocker by all means and overlooked!!!

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!!