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Iain Matthews
voc, *1946 GB, Scunthorpe
Singer / Songwriter of Rock, World and Folk
A.k.a. Ian Matthew MacDonald
Iain Matthews (born Iain Matthew McDonald, 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter. He was a singer with Fairport Convention, before forming his own band Matthews Southern Comfort, which had a UK number one in 1970 with a cover of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock".Born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Matthews was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, then as the 1960s progressed, as Ian Matthews. In 1989, he reverted to the original spelling of his first name.
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Shake It on Stealin' Home by Iain Matthews Seven Bridges Road on Valley Hi by Iain Matthews Sylvie on Sylvie by Sylvie Don't Hang Up Your Dancing Shoes on Stealin' Home by Iain Matthews Blind Willie Mctell on La Terre Commune by Iain Matthews These Days on Valley Hi by Iain Matthews Cartwheel Avenue on Cartwheel Avenue by Pete Mancini & Iain Matthews Gimme An Inch on Stealin' Home by Iain Matthews If You Saw Thro' My Eyes on If You Saw Thro' My Eyes by Iain Matthews Old Man at the Mill on Valley Hi by Iain MatthewsTrack list and 30sec audio provided by 
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thro' My Eyes | Iain Matthews | 2018 | Compil. |
| A Baker's Dozen | Iain Matthews | 2017 | Album |
| Live At Rockpalast | Iain Matthews | 2016 | Album |
| The Art Of Obscurity | Iain Matthews | 2013 | Album |
| The Art Of Obscurity | Iain Matthews | 2013 | Album |
| In The Now | Iain Matthews & Egbert Derix | 2012 | Album |
| Collected | Iain Matthews | 2011 | Compil. |
| Afterwords | Iain Matthews, Egbert Derix | 2010 | Album |
| Amen - Live 2009 | Iain Matthews Featuring Mike Roelofs & Bart Oostindie | 2009 | Album |
| Joy Mining | Iain Matthews & Searing Quartet | 2008 | Album |
| Contact | Iain Matthews | 2007 | Album |
| Pure And Crooked / Skeleton Keys | Iain Matthews | 2007 | Compil. |
| Contact | Iain Matthews | 2007 | Album |
| If You Saw Thro' My Eyes - Live | Iain Matthews | 2006 | Album |
| Osolomeo (A Night In Colorado) / Brosella | Iain Matthews | 2006 | Album |
| Go For Broke/Hit And Run | Iain Matthews | 2006 | Compil. |
| Brosella | Iain Matthews | 2006 | Album |
| The Dark Ride / God Looked Down | Iain Matthews | 2006 | Compil. |
| Sparkler-Best Of The Texas Recordings 1989-2004 | Iain Matthews | 2005 | Compil. |
| Live In London | Iain Matthews | 2005 | Album |
| Stealin' Home/Siamese Friends | Iain Matthews | 2005 | Compil. |
| Spot Of Interference / 'Shook' | Iain Matthews | 2005 | Compil. |
| Zumbach's Coat | Iain Matthews | 2004 | Album |
| Flood Damage | Iain Matthews, Julian Dawson | 2003 | Album |
| Valley Hi / Some Days You Eat The Bear And Some Days The Bear Eats You | Iain Matthews | 2003 | Compil. |
| The Complete Notebook Series | Iain Matthews | 2002 | Compil. |
| Songs From The Red Couch | Iain Matthews, Julian Dawson | 2002 | Album |
| Blind Willie McTell | Iain Matthews, Elliott Murphy | 2001 | Single |
| One Cold Street | Iain Matthews | 2001 | Single |
| CD-Ticket | Elliott Murphy & Iain Matthews With Olivier Durand | 2001 | Single |
| La Terre Commune | Elliott Murphy & Iain Matthews | 2001 | Album |
| Solingen, Steinenhaus, "The Cornish Pub" 1.6.2001 | Elliott Murphy, Iain Matthews, Olivier Durand | 2001 | Compil. |
| The Iain Adventure | Iain Matthews | 2000 | Album |
| Secrets All Told - The Songs Of Sandy Denny | Iain Matthews | 2000 | Album |
| A Tiniest Wham | Iain Matthews | 2000 | Album |
| Stealin Home/Siamese Friends | Iain Matthews | 1999 | Compil. |
| Orphans & Outcasts Volume 3 | Iain Matthews | 1999 | Album |
| Excerpts From Swine Lake | Iain Matthews | 1998 | Album |
| The Seattle Years 1978-1984 | Iain Matthews | 1996 | Compil. |
| God Looked Down | Iain Matthews | 1996 | Album |
| Camouflage | Iain Matthews | 1995 | Album |
| The Dark Ride | Iain Matthews | 1994 | Album |
| Intimate Wash | Iain Matthews | 1993 | Album |
| If You Saw Thro' My Eyes / Tigers Will Survive | Iain Matthews | 1993 | Compil. |
| The Soul Of Many Places - The Elektra Years, 1972-1974 | Iain Matthews | 1993 | Compil. |
| Orphans & Outcasts (A Collection Of Demos) Volume 2 - 1981-1989 | Iain Matthews | 1993 | Album |
| Live Alone | Iain Matthews | 1992 | Album |
| Get It Back | Iain Matthews | 1992 | Single |
| Skeleton Keys | Iain Matthews | 1992 | Album |
| Nights In Manhattan | Iain Matthews | 1991 | Album |
| Orphans & Outcasts (A Collection Of Demos) Volume 1 - 1969-1979 | Iain Matthews | 1991 | Album |
| Pure And Crooked | Iain Matthews | 1990 | Album |
| Alive Alone | Iain Matthews | 1988 | Single |
| Walking A Changing Line | Iain Matthews | 1988 | Album |
| Following Every Finger | Iain Matthews | 1988 | Single |
| See Me | Iain Matthews | 1985 | Single |
| Shook | Iain Matthews | 1984 | Album |
| Wild Places | Iain Matthews | 1984 | Single |
| I Survived The 70's | Iain Matthews | 1983 | Single |
| Moods For Mallards | Hi-Fi Featuring Iain Matthews And David Surkamp | 1982 | Album |
| Spot Of Interference | Iain Matthews | 1980 | Album |
| I Survived The 70's | Iain Matthews | 1980 | Single |
| Discreet Repeat | Iain Matthews | 1980 | Compil. |
| She May Call You Up Tonight | Iain Matthews | 1980 | Single |
| Heatwave | Iain Matthews | 1979 | Single |
| In Concert-193 | Marshall Hain / Iain Matthews | 1979 | Album |
| You Don't See Me | Iain Matthews | 1979 | Single |
| Gimme An Inch Girl / Man In The Station | Iain Matthews | 1979 | Single |
| Six-Pack ~ Six Track or Guaranteed 15 Minutes Playing Time | Iain Matthews | 1979 | Single |
| Siamese Friends | Iain Matthews | 1979 | Album |
| Man In The Station / Slip Away | Iain Matthews | 1978 | Single |
| Stealin' Home | Iain Matthews | 1978 | Album |
| King Of The Night | Iain Matthews | 1978 | Single |
| Don't Hang Up Your Dancing Shoes | Iain Matthews | 1978 | Single |
| Shake It | Iain Matthews | 1978 | Single |
| Hit And Run | Iain Matthews | 1977 | Album |
| Bride 1945 | Iain Matthews | 1977 | Single |
| Los Tigres Sobreviviran / Tiempos | Iain Matthews | 1977 | Single |
| Tigers Will Survive | Iain Matthews | 1977 | Single |
| Brown Eyed Girl | Iain Matthews | 1976 | Single |
| A Fool Like You | Iain Matthews | 1976 | Single |
| Go For Broke | Iain Matthews | 1976 | Album |
| I Don't Wanna Talk About It | Iain Matthews | 1975 | Single |
| Dirty Work | Iain Matthews | 1974 | Single |
| Met Her On A Plane | Iain Matthews | 1974 | Single |
| Journeys From Gospel Oak | Iain Matthews | 1974 | Album |
| Some Days You Eat The Bear And Some Days The Bear Eats You | Iain Matthews | 1974 | Album |
| Devil In Disguise | Iain Matthews | 1973 | Single |
| These Days / Same Old Man | Iain Matthews | 1973 | Single |
| 7 Bridges Road | Iain Matthews | 1973 | Single |
| Valley Hi | Iain Matthews | 1973 | Album |
| Da Doo Ron Ron / Never Again | Iain Matthews | 1972 | Single |
| Tigers Will Survive | Iain Matthews | 1972 | Album |
| Reno Nevada / Desert Inn | Iain Matthews | 1971 | Single |
| Hearts | Iain Matthews | 1971 | Single |
| Hearts | Iain Matthews | 1971 | Single |
| Desert Inn / Hearts | Iain Matthews | 1971 | Single |
| If You Saw Thro' My Eyes | Iain Matthews | 1971 | Album |
| London Revisited | Iain Matthews | Album | |
| I Can't Fade Away | Iain Matthews | Album | |
| Reno Nevada / Little Known | Iain Matthews | Single |
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