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'.

Track List

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
22. Never Again
23. Close the Door Lightly When You Go
24. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
25. Morning Song
26. The Only Dancer
27. Tigers Will Survive
28. Midnight on the Water
29. Right Before My Eyes
30. Da Doo Ron Ron
31. Hope You Know
32. Please Be My Friend
33. It Takes a Lot to Laugh It Takes a Train to Cry
34. Not Much at All
35. Hearts
36. Baby Ruth
37. Home
38. There's a Woody Guthrie Song
39. Thro' My Eyes
40. Never Ending
41. Desert Inn
42. Close the Door Lightly When You Go
43. Knowing the Game
44. Polly
45. Things You Gave Me
46. Mobile Blue
47. Tribute to Hank Williams
48. Met Her on a Plane
49. Bride 1945
50. Franklin Avenue
51. Do Right Woman
52. Sing Me Back Home
53. Devil in Disguise (Album Outtake)
54. Met Her on a Plane (7" Strings Version)
55. Knowing the Game (2006 Re-Recording)
56. Polly (2006 Re-Recording)
57. Franklin Avenue (2006 Re- Recording)
58. Tribute to Hank Williams (2006 Re-Recording)
59. Devil in Disguise (2006 Re- Recording)
60. Knowing the Game
61. Franklin Avenue
62. Tribute to Hank Williams
63. Desert Inn
64. Hearts
65. Never Ending
66. Reno Nevada
67. Little Known
68. Hinge {Part One}
69. Hinge {Part Two}
70. Southern Wind
71. It Came Without Warning
72. You Couldn't Lose
73. Morgan the Pirate
74. Thro' My Eyes
75. Reno Nevada
76. Thro' My Eyes
77. Desert Inn
78. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream
79. Tribute to Hank Williams
80. Midnight on the Water
81. Knowing the Game
82. Reno Nevada
83. Close the Door Lightly When You Go
84. Desert Inn
85. Hope You Know
86. Please Be My Friend
87. Midnight on the Water
88. Tigers Will Survive
89. Tigers Will Survive
90. Thro' My Eyes
91. Bride 1945
92. Knowing the Game
93. Tribute to Hank Williams
94. Never Ending
95. You Couldn't Lose
96. Thro' My Eyes
97. Reno Nevada
98. Thro' My Eyes
99. Reno Nevada
100. Franklin Avenue
101. House Un-American Blues Activity Dream

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