Bull of the Woods is the third studio album by The 13th Floor Elevators, and the last on which they worked as a group. The album is noted for its moody, dreamy, and fuzzed-out psychedelic sound, and was released by International Artists.
The album project commenced shortly after the completion of Easter Everywhere, tentatively entitled Beauty and the Beast and later A Love That's Sound. It featured two bass players: the 1968 lineup of Roky Erickson, Stacy Sutherland, Tommy Hall, Danny Thomas, and Duke Davis was amended with Ronnie Leatherman replacing Davis on some tracks. The band was disintegrating while recording was taking place. Only four songs feature Roky Erickson and Duke Davis; only one features Tommy Hall.[3] The remaining seven tracks only feature Sutherland, Thomas, and Leatherman. Most of the tracks recorded early in 1968 were discarded and the album was completed later that year. Sutherland holds sole songwriting credits on five tracks, co-writing a further four with Tommy Hall. When it was released in March 1969 as Bull of the Woods the group had effectively disbanded.
In 2009, the album was released with bonus tracks as part of the "Sign of the 3-Eyed Men" box set. The set also included a reconstruction of the "lost" third album, A Love That's Sound, which consisted of mostly previously unreleased tracks, and early versions of songs later included on Bull of the Woods.
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