Iain Matthews - Thro' My Eyes: The Vertigo Years 1970-1974 (2024) {5CD Box Set}
Artist: Iain Matthews
Title: Thro' My Eyes: The Vertigo Years 1970-1974
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Lemon Recordings – CDLEM5BOX256
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 06:11:46
Total Size: 853 MB / 1.98 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Thro' My Eyes: The Vertigo Years 1970-1974
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Lemon Recordings – CDLEM5BOX256
Genre: Folk, Singer-Songwriter
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+.cue, log)
Total Time: 06:11:46
Total Size: 853 MB / 1.98 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
CD 1 - If You Saw Thro' My Eyes & Live at the Bitter End
01. Desert Inn (3:32)
02. Hearts (3:12)
03. Never Ending (2:57)
04. Reno Nevada (4:47)
05. Little Known (2:56)
06. Hinge, Pt. 1 (1:26)
07. Hinge, Pt. 2 (0:29)
08. Southern Wind (3:13)
09. It Came Without Warning (4:05)
10. You Couldn't Lose (3:38)
11. Morgan the Pirate (6:46)
12. Thro' My Eyes (2:40)
13. Never Ending (3:20)
14. Hope You Know (3:52)
15. Please Be My Friend (4:47)
16. Genesis Hall (4:19)
17. Souling Song (1:02)
18. Woodstock (5:11)
19. Right Before My Eyes (2:27)
20. Reno Nevada (5:50)
21. Close the Door Lightly When You Go (4:00)
22. Road to Ronderlin (3:05)
CD 2 - Tigers Will Survive & Iain Matthews Radio Sessions, April 1971, May 1971
01. Never Again (3:16)
02. Close The Door Lightly When You Go (3:08)
03. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (3:23)
04. Morning Song (3:51)
05. The Only Dancer (4:17)
06. Tigers Will Survive (4:11)
07. Midnight On The Water (2:49)
08. Right Before My Eyes (2:19)
09. Da Doo Ron Ron (2:15)
10. Hope You Know (3:29)
11. Please Be My Friend (5:40)
12. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (4:51)
13. Not Much At All (3:55)
14. Hearts (3:28)
15. Baby Ruth (3:01)
16. Home (3:44)
17. There's A Woody Guthrie Song (3:56)
18. Thro' My Eyes (1:47)
19. Never Ending (2:47)
20. Desert Inn (3:12)
21. Close The Door Lightly When You Go (2:32)
CD 3 - Journeys from Gospel Oak + Bonus Tracks & Acoustic in Paris- Live at La Pomme D'Eve
01. Knowing The Game (2:36)
02. Polly (4:05)
03. Things You Gave Me (2:33)
04. Mobile Blue (3:29)
05. Tribute To Hank Williams (2:49)
06. Met Her On A Plane (3:35)
07. Bride 1945 (3:10)
08. Franklin Avenue (2:51)
09. Do Right Woman (3:36)
10. Sing Me Back Home (3:39)
11. Devil In Disguise (2:27)
12. Met Her On A Plane (3:21)
13. Knowing The Game (3:50)
14. Polly (3:56)
15. Franklin Avenue (3:07)
16. Tribute To Hank Williams (2:21)
17. Devil In Disguise (3:30)
18. Knowing The Game (6:18)
19. Franklin Avenue (4:22)
20. Tribute To Hank Williams (3:21)
CD 4 - If You Saw Thro' My Eyes Live & Excerpts from the Notebook Series
01. Desert Inn (4:00)
02. Hearts (4:05)
03. Never Ending (3:45)
04. Reno Nevada (5:46)
05. Little Known (3:39)
06. Hinge (Part One) (3:00)
07. Hinge (Part Two) (0:26)
08. Southern Wind (3:36)
09. It Came Without Warning (4:50)
10. You Couldn't Lose (3:57)
11. Morgan The Pirate (7:03)
12. Thro' My Eyes (4:01)
13. Reno Nevada (4:34)
14. Thro' My Eyes (3:06)
15. Desert Inn (3:07)
16. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (4:04)
17. Tribute To Hank Williams (2:18)
18. Midnight On The Water (3:02)
19. Knowing The Game (2:48)
20. Reno Nevada (6:11)
CD 5 - Vertigo Years Live 1971-2022
01. Close The Door Lightly When You Go (4:25)
02. Desert Inn (3:44)
03. Hope You Know (2:43)
04. Please Be My Friend (2:01)
05. Midnight On The Water (2:50)
06. Tigers Will Survive (5:34)
07. Tigers Will Survive (4:39)
08. Thro' My Eyes (3:04)
09. Bride 1945 (3:38)
10. Knowing The Game (3:13)
11. Tribute To Hank Williams (3:31)
12. Never Ending (5:13)
13. You Couldn't Lose (4:42)
14. Thro' My Eye (4:52)
15. Reno Nevada (4:46)
16. Thro' My Eyes (3:39)
17. Reno Nevada (4:38)
18. Franklin Avenue (4:26)
19. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream (5:17)
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’.
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’.
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