Rhtyhm Of The West - The Columbia Years 1975-1977

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Go For Broke in 1976, a 6-CD, 80-track retrospective box set from singer-songwriter Iain Matthews. It contains expanded 2026 versions of his two albums recorded for Columbia Records during the second half of the 1970s: Go For Broke and Hit And Run. Two concerts recorded at the legendary Ebbets Field in Denver, Colorado, with his bands Motion and The Falling Rock Band. A rich catalogue of unreleased tracks from Iain’s archives, including a recently compiled live CD: Columbia Years Live 1979-2022. Including six songs performed live and never recorded for his studio albums: Payday, Truck Driving Man, Faith To Arise, Nobody, Palm Springs Jump and Trouble In Paradise. Iain Matthews continues to record albums and perform live today. His musical career, now spanning nearly 60 years, can rightly be called legendary. A founding member of the folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969, he left the group to form his own, Matthews Southern Comfort, which reached the top of the UK charts with a cover of Joni Mitchell’s Woodstock. In the 1970s, in addition to recording solo albums for the Vertigo, Elektra, Columbia and Rockburgh labels, he was also a founding member of Plainsong, alongside guitarist and singer Andy Roberts. Based on their first 1972 album, In Search Of Amelia Earhart, the 6-CD Plainsong box set, Following Amelia, is also available from Cherry Red Records.