01	God Is The Dog						06:40
	02	Emotions Of Man						05:46
	03	Glimpse						06:46
	04	Half Changed Again						06:28
	05	Black Sunshine						05:27
	06	From The Film Of The Same Name						05:54
	07	Secrets Reflected						06:51
	08	Another Tree Will Grow						06:06

Bob Jackson - keyboards, lead vocal
Colin Williams - guitars, vocal
Paul Hooper - drums, percussion, vocal
Malcolm Harker - bass guitar, vibas, vocal

All compositions by Indian Summer

Recorded and mixed at Trident Studios, London

(p) 1971 Neon Records
(c) 1993 Repertoire Records



Indian Summer were formed in the summer of 1969 by keyboardist Bob Jackson, guitarist/vocalist Colin Williams, drummer Paul Hooper and bassist Malcolm Harker. Based in Coventry they toured the local universities and colleges in their native Midlands before being spotted by manager Jim Simpson who also looked after Black Sabbath and Bakerloo amongst others. In fact, they often filled in for Sabbath when they were too poor to be able to afford to get to the gigs they were booked to play! Ex-Vertigo Records manager Olav Wyper had been employed by RCA to head its progressive Neon Records label and, after a recommendation from Simpson, he signed the band after witnessing them go down a storm at Henry's Blues House in Birmingham. Teaming them with producer Rodger Bain, who'd produced Black Sabbath's self titled debut album, he put them into London's legendary Trident Studios to record their debut album. "Indian Summer" was released in early 1971 (NE3) though a proposed single "Walking On Water" failed to see the light of day.

Immediately after the album's release, Harker left to take over his father's engineering firm (he currently lives in America). His replacement was Wez Price, ex-The Sorrows, who undertook the promotional duties required of the band, including dates in Switzerland. However, on returning from a gig in early 1972 with no money (and a bag of chips between them!) the band felt that something was wrong and decided to call it a day.

Colin Williams retired totally from the music industry to take up employment in the motor industry. Paul Hooper played in various Midlands based bands before teaming up with Bob Jackson in The Dodgers for 1978's "Love On The Rebound" album, and is currently a member of The Fortunes. After extracting himself from his contract with Jim Simpson, Bob Jackson teamed up with ex-John Entwhistle vocalist Alan Ross for two LPs and numerous tours. He then joined Moon on their "Too Close For Comfort" LP of 1976 before passing an audition for Badfinger who he stayed with for nearly three years. He then formed the Dodgers with Paul Hooper before joining ex-Uriah Heep vocalist David Byron for the "On The Rocks" LP. Since then he's played with the likes of The Motors, The Searchers, Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce and Pete Brown and still plays in local bands as well as teaching music.

Mark Brennan - Special thanks to Bob Jackson

Taken from the Repertoire reissue of "Indian Summer", 1993, REP 4357-WP




Indian Summer - "Indian Summer" (1971)
An UK-band who released their first and only album on the Neon-label. The music is typical early 70's prog with organ, some sparse Mellotron and a guitarist with a slightly jazz-influenced style of playing. The album opens great with the anti-religious "God is the Dog". Great organ and vocals on this one, and the lyrics suits me very well! "Half Changed Again" builds up from a relaxed acoustic track and then to some excellent organ-solos and finally to a beautiful melodic theme. "Glimpse" is the most complex track here, while "Emotions of Men" and "Black Sunshine" are much more straightforward but still good tracks. "Another Tree Will Grow" have a great melody and riff, but it also demonstrates the only weak thing with this album: some of the solo-passages should have been shorter and better structured. And the excellent instrumental number "From the Film of the Same Name" showed that they could do just that if they tried hard enough. I also have to give credit for the great vocalist. He can go from a deep voice to some really impressive and powerful screams with ease. I only wish he could have done it a little bit more than what he do here. Anyway, this is a great album for every lover of early 70's progressive rock.