Iain Matthews

britisk gitarist

Iain Matthews (fødd 16. juni 1946) er ein engelsk musikar og låtskrivar. Han vart fødd Iain Matthew McDonald i Scunthorpe i Lincolnshire i England. Han vart i 1960-åra først kjend som Ian McDonald, og seinare i 60-åra og fram til 1989 som Ian Matthews. Etter dette har han teke attende det fornamnet sitt, men skifta etternamn og vart Iain Matthews.

Iain Matthews

Fødd16. juni 1946
FødestadScunthorpe i Lincolnshire i England
FødenamnIain Matthew McDonald
AliasIan McDonald, Ian Matthews, Iain Matthews
OpphavStorbritannia
Aktiv1967 til i dag
SjangerFolkrock, rockabilly, country, alternative rock, surfemusikk, jazz, folk
InstrumentVokal, gitar
Tilknytte artistarFairport Convention, Plainsong, Matthews Southern Comfort
PlateselskapDecca/Deram, Polydor, Vertigo, Elektra, Columbia, Mushroom, Windham Hill, Mooncrest, Brilliant
Verka somMusikar, låtskrivar

Påverka av både rock and roll og folkemusikk har han hovudsakleg spelt som soloartist, men var med i den første utgåva av Fairport Convention i perioden då dei var kraftig påverka av amerikansk folkrock. Seinare han han fronta band som Plainsong, Hi-Fi, No Grey Faith, More Than A Song og sitt eige Southern Comfort.[1]

Albums endre

  • Fairport Convention, Fairport Convention (1968) UK Polydor/ US Cotillion
  • Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays (1968) UK Island/ US A&M
  • Fairport Convention, Heyday(1986) BBC - innspelingar frå 1968/1969 UK Island/ US Hannibal
  • Ian Matthews, Matthews' Southern Comfort (1969) UK Uni/ US Decca (det første soloalbumet hans)
  • Matthews Southern Comfort, Second Spring (1969) UK Uni/ US Decca
  • Matthews Southern Comfort, Later That Same Year (1970) UK Uni / US Decca
  • Matthews' Southern Comfort, The Essential Collection (1997) Half Moon (a retrospective of 1970s recordings)
  • Ian Matthews, If You Saw Thro' My Eyes (1971) UK and US Vertigo (2nd solo album)
  • Ian Matthews, Tigers Will Survive (1971) UK and US Vertigo (3rd solo album)
  • Plainsong, In Search of Amelia Earhart (1972) UK and US Elektra
  • Ian Matthews, Journeys from Gospel Oak (1972) UK [[Mooncrest
  • Ian Matthews, Valley Hi (1973) UK and US Elektra Records]]
  • Ian Matthews, Some Days You Eat the Bear...Some Days the Bear Eats You (1974) UK and US Elektra
  • Ian Matthews, Go For Broke (1975) UK CBS/ US Columbia
  • Ian Matthews, Hit and Run (1976) UK CBS/ US Columbia
  • Ian Matthews, Stealin' Home (1978) UK Rockburgh/ US Mushroom
  • Ian Matthews, Siamese Friends (1979) Rockburgh
  • Ian Matthews, Discreet Repeat (1979) Rockburgh
  • Ian Matthews, Spot Of Interference (1980) Rockburgh
  • Hi-Fi, Demonstration Record (1982) First American Records; live mini-album
  • Hi-Fi, Moods for Mallards (1982) First American Records
  • Ian Matthews, Shook (1984) Polydor
  • Ian Matthews, Walking a Changing Line (1988) Windham Hill Records
  • Iain Matthews, Pure and Crooked (1990) Gold Castle Records
  • Iain Matthews, Skeleton Keys (1992) Line
  • Iain Matthews, The Dark Ride (1994) Watermelon
  • Iain Matthews, God Looked Down (1996) Watermelon
  • Iain Matthews, The Seattle Years 1978-1984 (1996) Varese Sarabande
  • Iain Matthews, Excerpts from Swine Lake (1998) Blue Rose
  • Iain Matthews, Orphans & Outcasts Volume 3
  • No Grey Faith, Secrets All Told — The Songs of Sandy Denny (2000) Perfect Pitch / Unique Gravity
  • Iain Matthews & Elliott Murphy, The Official Blue Rose Bootleg (2001) Blue Rose
  • Iain Matthews & Elliott Murphy, La Terre Commune (2001) Blue Rose / Perfect Pitch / Eminent
  • Plainsong, Pangolins (2003) Blue Rose
  • Iain Matthews, Zumbach's coat (2005) Blue Rose / Perfect Pitch / Eminent
  • Iain Matthews, Contact in live (2008)
  • Iain Matthews & Searingkvartett, Joy Mining (2008) Perfect Pitch (an easy listening/jazz oriented album)
  • Iain Matthews & Nick Vernier Band, Woodstock (2009) Brinker Media
  • Iain Matthews & Egbert Derix, Afterwords (2010) Matrix
  • Iain Matthews & Nick Vernier Band with Emitt Rhodes, Time Will Show The Wiser (2010) Brinker Media
  • Iain Matthews & Ad van der Veen, Ride the times (2010) Turtle Records
  • Matthews Southern Comfort, Kind of New (album) Brilliant/Genepool BMCD1010 (2010)

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