Lenny Breau W/ Beverly Glen Copeland, Don Thompson & Terry Clarke: Interview With Beverly Re: Lenny

If you've enjoyed this post, please consider subscribing to The Lenny Breau Archives Channel. We are dedicated to presenting rare, seldom heard/seen, and out-of-print music, TV and film footage, interviews and workshops of the great master guitarist, Lenny Breau Catalogue of Content on Lenny Breau Archives You Tube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@thelennybreauarchives5675/videos Lenny Breau Archives Face Book Page/Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/15000... Please send questions and comments to LennyBreauArchives@protonmail.com History and Song Index In 1969, Philadelphia-born Beverly Glenn Copeland left his* classical voice studies at McGill University in Montreal and moved to Toronto. Beverly began singing and playing his own songs in clubs in Toronto and Southern Ontario, and in time came to the attention of organist, producer and owner of GRT Records, Doug Riley. Doug was mightily impressed with Beverly's work. He invited the artist to make an album for GRT Records and assembled a band of some of Toronto's greatest jazz musicians to back Beverly on it. These included Lenny Breau, Don Thompson on bass and vibes, drummer Terry Clarke and Jeremy Steig on flute. As a classically-trained musician, Beverly had never worked with jazz musicians prior to this session but immediately connected with the players, particularly Lenny whose contributions to the album Beverly described as "stunning". The album--titled "Beverly Glenn Copeland"-- was a unique mix of jazz, psychedelic folk and sophisticated pop driven by Beverly's powerful voice and lyrics (some written and co-written with Judith Anne Weiss) . Despite some play on central Canadian radio stations and CBC, the album received very little air play. Lenny and Beverly played several gigs in the months following the album's release including a CBC-TV special called "Music to See" from which the stills in this post were taken. (We will be posting this entire video at some point in the not so distant future.) Beverly went on to a enjoy a wide-ranging career in music and television. He now lives with his wife in Eastern Canada and continues to tour and perform. *Beverly identified as a gay woman when this album was recorded but came out as transgender in 2003, hence our use of the pronouns "he" "his" and "him" in our description. Note: We've only included tracks from the album on which Lenny is prominent. The full album has eight tracks. 1. Excerpt from 2003 Interview with Beverly Glenn-Copeland 00:14 2. Ghost House 04:40 3. Colours of Anyhow 12:00 4. Erzili 15:55 5. Song of Beads 25:40

Added 28 Mar 2026