ROY HARPER – BULLINAMINGVASE LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ UK

Roy Harper – Bullinamingvase
(Harvest Records  1977  SHSP4060)
Matrix No’s: A2/B1 – UK Pressing

Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– some rubbing near top
Inner Sleeve has one small split  in bottom

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles on Side 2)
 

Roy Harper (born 12 June 1941) is an English folk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist who has been a professional musician since 1964. Harper has released 32 albums (including 10 live albums) across his 50-year career. As a musician, Harper is known for his distinctive fingerstyle playing and lengthy, lyrical, complex compositions, a result of his love of jazz and Keats.

His influence upon other musicians has been acknowledged by Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Pete Townshend, Kate Bush, Pink Floyd, and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, who said Harper was his “…primary influence as an acoustic guitarist and songwriter.” Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph described him as “one of Britain’s most complex and eloquent lyricists and genuinely original songwriters… much admired by his peers” Across the Atlantic his influence has been acknowledged by Seattle-based acoustic band Fleet Foxes, American musician and producer Jonathan Wilson and Californian harpist Joanna Newsom with whom he has also toured.

In 2005, Harper was awarded the MOJO Hero Award, and in 2013 a Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. His most recent album, Man and Myth, was released in 2013. In 2016, Harper celebrated his 75th birthday by performing concerts in Clonakilty, Birmingham, Manchester, London and Edinburgh.

Bullinamingvase (a wordplay on “Bull in a Ming vase“) is the ninth studio album by English folk / rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Roy Harper. It was first released in 1977 by Harvest Records. In the United States the album was released as One Of Those Days In England.

Track listing

All tracks credited to Roy Harper

Side one

1. “One Of Those Days In England Part 1” – 3:25
2. “These Last Days” – 4:26
3. “Cherishing the Lonesome” – 5:54
4. “Naked Flame” – 5:06
5. “Watford Gap” – 3:22

Side two

1. “One Of Those Days In England Parts 2–10” – 19:27

Personnel

• Roy Harper
• John Leckie – Sound Engineer
• Mark Vigars – Sound Engineer
• Steve Broughton
• Dave Cochran
• B.J. Cole
• Herbie Flowers
• John Halsey
• Percy Jones
• Skaila Kanga^[8] – Harp
• Ronnie Lane
• David Lawson
• Alvin Lee
• Linda McCartney (backing vocals on One Of Those Days In England)
• Paul McCartney (backing vocals on One Of Those Days In England)
• Jimmy McCulloch
• Henry McCullough
• Max Middleton
• Dave Plowman
• Andy Roberts
• The Vauld Symphony Orchestra