Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews () 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. 

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.

Albums 
 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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Engelske songarar
Engelske låtskrivarar
Folk frå Scunthorpe
Fairport Convention-medlemmar
Elektrisk folk-musikarar