Not only did the Southern Rocking, hard-driving, record-buying, public finally take notice…but so did the concert promoters and live bookers worldwide. “Uncle Ned” raced out of the Texas dirt track gate and forced the listener to give this Southern Rock band their just due.
#POINT BLANK BAND PLUS#
The band’s first introductory LP would, from the moment it was released in 1976, proudly take its place in the annals of Southern Rock recordings and indelibly define what was to come from The POINT BLANK Boys for the next thirty plus years.įollowing their self-titled debut, the band’s “Second Season” album gave rise to the story of a good man, with a pea coat on his back, named “Uncle Ned” and, if there was ever an open question concerning the validity of the full-tilt Southern Boogie created by POINT BLANK, then one listen to this tune on the band’s second Arista release quickly ended any such speculation once and for all. He quickly proceeded to sign the company’s very first Rock act to the label, a Tampa, Florida group called THE OUTLAWS but it was the pure consistency of the southern fried, hard drivin’ sound of these proud Texans that kept my attention focused on another Arista Records signing…those POINT BLANK Boys. Arista, which was formerly known in the industry as Bell Records, had recruited former Columbia Records chief, Clive Davis, to run the brand new label. From the time I heard song one, on side one, “Free Man” I knew this act would soon become a force to be reckoned with in the field of Southern Rock. The head of publicity for Arista Records had sent this album to me for review. Behind it was the solid white background of what was the first self-titled national release of another ''Little Ole’ Band From Texas” called POINT BLANK.
Twin barrels of a shotgun stared me right in the face.
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