Iain Matthews Thro My Eyes The Vertigo Years 1970-1974 1970 1974 New CD Box Set

Iain Matthews Thro My Eyes The Vertigo Years 1970-1974 1970 1974 New CD Box Set

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102-track, 5CD box set retrospective from singer/songwriter Iain Matthews. Features 2024 remasters of the three albums made for Vertigo Records at the start of his solo career in the early 1970s, and a live version of his first Vertigo album. Including 37 previously unreleased tracks, including a newly-compiled CD of live performances, 'Vertigo Years 1971-2022'. An original member of the folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band Matthews Southern Comfort and topping the UK charts in 1970 with Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock', Iain Matthews can rightly be described as a music legend. In the 1970s, as well as recording solo albums for Vertigo, Elektra and CBS/ Columbia, he was also a founder member of Plainsong whose 6CD box set 'Following Amelia' can also be found on Cherry Red Records. Still making albums and playing live to this day, his career in the music business is a classic example of talent married to longevity. This new box set, 'Thro' My Eyes: The Vertigo Years 1970-1974', features the three original albums from his album deal with Vertigo - 'If You Saw Thro' My Eyes', 'Tigers Will Survive', and 'Journeys From Gospel Oak' - alongside a wealth of previously unissued material from Iain's archives, including for the first time on CD material recorded during his 1971 residency at the Bitter End in New York with future Plainsong members Andy Roberts and Bobby Ronga and former Fairport bandmate Richard Thompson. Also included in this comprehensive collection are Vertigo era tracks recorded live in Paris, a live version of his first solo album recorded during an 18-date tour of The Netherlands in 2003, and tracks from the now long out-of-print 'Notebook Series'.

- Disc 1 - 1 Desert Inn 2 Hearts 3 Never Ending 4 Reno Nevada 5 Little Known 6 Hinge {Part One} 7 Hinge {Part Two} 8 Southern Wind 9 It Came Without Warning 10 You Couldn't Lose 11 Morgan the Pirate 12 Thro'my Eyes 12 Never Ending 13 Hope You Know 14 Please Be My Friend 15 Genesis Hall 16 Souling Song 17 Woodstock 18 Right Before My Eyes 19 Reno Nevada 20 Close the Door Lightly When You Go 21 Road to Ronderlin - Disc 2 - 1 Never Again 2 Close the Door Lightly When You Go 3 House Un-American Blues Activity Dream 4 Morning Song 5 The Only Dancer 6 Tigers Will Survive 7 Midnight on the Water 8 Right Before My Eyes 9 Da Doo Ron Ron 10 Hope You Know 11 Please Be My Friend 12 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 13 Not Much at All 14 Hearts 15 Baby Ruth 16 Home 17 There's a Woody Guthrie Song 18 Thro' My Eyes 19 Never Ending 20 Desert Inn 21 Close the Door Lightly When You Go - Disc 3 - 1 Knowing the Game 2 Polly 3 Things You Gave Me 4 Mobile Blue 5 Tribute to Hank Williams 6 Met Her on a Plane 7 Bride 1945 8 Franklin Avenue 9 Do Right Woman 10 Sing Me Back Home 11 Devil in Disguise (Album Outtake) 12 Met Her on a Plane (7" Strings Version) 13 Knowing the Game (2006 Re-Recording) 14 Polly (2006 Re-Recording) 15 Franklin Avenue (2006 Re- Recording) 16 Tribute to Hank Williams (2006 Re-Recording) 17 Devil in Disguise (2006 Re- Recording) 18 Knowing the Game 19 Franklin Avenue 20 Tribute to Hank Williams - Disc 4 - 1 Desert Inn 2 Hearts 3 Never Ending 4 Reno Nevada 5 Little Known 6 Hinge {Part One} 7 Hinge {Part Two} 8 Southern Wind 9 It Came Without Warning 10 You Couldn't Lose 11 Morgan the Pirate 12 Thro' My Eyes 13 Reno Nevada 14 Thro' My Eyes 15 Desert Inn 16 House Un-American Blues Activity Dream 17 Tribute to Hank Williams 18 Midnight on the Water 19 Knowing the Game 20 Reno Nevada - Disc 5 - 1 Close the Door Lightly When You Go 2 Desert Inn 3 Hope You Know 4 Please Be My Friend 5 Midnight on the Water 6 Tigers Will Survive 7 Tigers Will Survive 8 Thro' My Eyes 9 Bride 1945 10 Knowing the Game 11 Tribute to Hank Williams 12 Never Ending 13 You Couldn't Lose 14 Thro' My Eyes 15 Reno Nevada 16 Thro' My Eyes 17 Reno Nevada 18 Franklin Avenue 19 House Un-American Blues Activity Dream