Iain Matthews – Rhythm Of The West (The Columbia Years 1975-1977)
His career in the music business now spans some 60 years and can rightly be described as legendary
Iain Matthews – Rhythm Of The West (The Columbia Years 1975-1977)
Format: 6CD Box
Label: Cherry Red Records
Release: 2026
Release date: May 8, 2026
Marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 release of ‘Go For Broke’, an 80-track, 6CD box set retrospective from singer/songwriter Iain Matthews.
Featuring 2026 expanded versions of his two albums made for Columbia Records during the latter half of the 1970s, ‘Go For Broke’ and ‘Hit And Run’.
Plus two live performances from the legendary US music venue Ebbets Field in Denver, Colorado with his bands Motion and The Falling Rock Band.
With a wealth of previously unissued material from Iain’s archives, including a newly-compiled CD of live performances, ‘Columbia Years Live 1979-2022’.
Including six songs performed live that were never recorded for his studio albums: ‘Payday’, ‘Truck Driving Man’, ‘Faith To Arise’, ‘Nobody’, ‘Palm Springs Jump’ and ‘Trouble In Paradise’.
Still making albums and playing live to this day, Iain Matthews’ career in the music business now spans some 60 years and can rightly be described as legendary. An original member of the folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969, he left to form his own band Matthews Southern Comfort, topping the UK charts with a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Woodstock’. In the 1970s, as well as recording solo albums for the Vertigo, Elektra, Columbia and Rockburgh labels, he was also a founder member of Plainsong alongside guitarist and singer Andy Roberts. Based around their 1972 debut album, ‘In Search Of Amelia Earhart’.
Website: http://iainmatthews.nl/
Tracks:
CD 1
‘Go For Broke’
01. Darkness, Darkness
02. I’ll Be Gone
03. Brown Eyed Girl
04. Rhythm Of The West
05. Groovin’
06. Lonely Hunter
07. Steamboat
08. A Fool Like You
09. Just One Look
10. When The Morning Comes
The ‘Go For Broke’ Demos
11. So Sad
12. Groovin’
‘Go For Broke’ Revisited
13. Lonely Hunter (Live, Tokyo 1991)
14. Brown Eyed Girl (Live, Heilbronn 2004)
15. Darkness, Darkness (Live, Vorhees NJ 2011)
CD 2
‘Hit And Run’
01. The Frame
02. One Day Without You
03. Times
04. I Will Not Fade Away
05. Tigers Will Survive
06. Just One Look
07. Help To Guide Me (I Need Your Help)
08. Shuffle
09. Hit And Run
‘Hit And Run’ Revisited
10. Just One Look (Live, Nottingham 1991)
11. The Frame (Live, Long Island NY 2012)
CD 3
‘Live At Ebbets Field, June 1976 – Ian Matthews ‘n’ Motion, Live At Ebbets Field, Denver CO’
01. Steamboat
02. Hit And Run
03. Rhythm Of The West
04. I Will Not Fade Away
05. Payday
06. Times
07. Tigers Will Survive
08. Shuffle
09. Faith To Arise
10. Nobody
11. Truck Driving Man
12. Brown Eyed Girl
CD 4
‘Live At Ebbetts Field, May 1977 – Ian Matthews & The Falling Rock Band, Live At Ebbets Field, Denver CO’
01. Just One Look
02. Times
03. Rhythm Of The West
04. Tigers Will Survive
05. Help To Guide Me (I Need Your Help)
06. Brown Eyed Girl
07. I Will Not Fade Away
08. Shuffle
09. Hit And Run
10. Lonely Hunter
Thank You And Goodnight!
11. Hit And Run (Live, Phoenix AZ 1977)
12. Palm Springs Jump (Live, Baton Rouge LA 1977)
13. Payday (Live, Baton Rouge LA 1977)
CD 5
Columbia Years Live (1976 – 1977)
‘Rock Around The World 1976 Ian Matthews ‘n’ Motion, Live at Paul’s Mall, Boston MA’
01. Shuffle
02. Tigers Will Survive
03. Darkness, Darkness
04. Faith To Arise
The Hit And Run Rehearsal Tape 1977 – Ian Matthews & The Falling Rock Band, SIR Studios, LA
05. The Frame
06. Trouble In Paradise
07. One Day Without You
08. Tigers Will Survive
09. Times
10. Faith To Arise
11. Shuffle
12. Help To Guide Me (I Need Your Help)
13. Hit And Run
14. I Will Not Fade Away
15. Just One Look
CD 6
‘Columbia Years Live (1979 – 2022)’
01. Tigers Will Survive (Amsterdam 79)
02. Lonely Hunter (Brussels 79)
03. Brown Eyed Girl (Brussels 79)
04. Just One Look (New York 79)
05. Lonely Hunter (Milan 84)
06. Lonely Hunter (Northampton MA 88)
07. Darkness, Darkness (Santa Monica CA 90)
08. Just One Look (Nuremberg 88)
09. Brown Eyed Girl (Swindon 04)
10. The Frame (Amen 08)
11. Darkness, Darkness/If My Eyes Were Blind/ Darkness, Darkness (Reprise) (Lage Vuursche 10)
12. The Frame (Bergen 11)
13. Brown Eyed Girl (Pontefract 16)
14. Darkness, Darkness (Cropredy 22)