JOHNNY COPPIN – ROLL ON DREAMER Signed LP – Nr MINT UK 1978 FOLK ROCK DECAMERON

Johnny Coppin – Roll On Dreamer
(Avada Records  1978  AVA102)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)

Sleeve in Nr MINT- condition
– some wear to edges and small split on bottom edge from opening
SIGNATURES ON BACK COVER

John “Johnny” Coppin (born 5 April 1946) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, poetry anthologist and broadcaster. He plays guitar and piano and has written and recorded many albums as a solo artist. He has a weekly one-hour show on BBC Radio Gloucestershire entitled, Folk Roots, which he has produced and presented every week since 1996. Coppin has been the Musical Director for the Festival Players since 1992.

Roll On Dreamer is a folk/rock album by Johnny Coppin released in 1978, his debut solo album following his time with Decameron. Like the subsequent Coppin solo albums, it includes cover versions as well as Coppin originals and settings of Gloucestershire poetry.

Track listing

(Composed by Johnny Coppin unless otherwise noted)

1. “Liberty”
2. “Never Lost For Love”
3. “Angelus”
4. “If That’s The Way You Feel”
5. “Roll On Dreamer”
6. “The Worm Forgives The Plough” (Bill Boazman)
7. “Archangel”
8. “The Roads Go Down” (Coppin setting of a poem by Frank Mansell)
9. “Midwinter”
10. “Warm Love” (Van Morrison)

Personnel

• Johnny Coppin – Vocals, piano, acoustic guitar, harmonium

with

• Phil Beer – fiddle on “Angelus”
• Nigel Mazlyn Jones – 12-string guitar on “Archangel”
• Geoff March – cello on “Archangel” and “The Roads Go Down”