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My name is Mark Linsonmeyer.

My guest for episode 226th is Ian Matthews.

He is perhaps best known for his appearance on the first two albums by the British Folk Rock Group Fairport Convention.

He was their male lead singer from 1967 through 1969.

You're right now hearing book song from Fairport's What We Did on Our Holidays, 1969,

co-written with Richard Thompson, one of my past guests.

That band was veering more into traditional British folk and parted ways with Ian, who

quickly started a solo career with Matthew's Southern Comfort, and then in the early

70s leading a band called Plainsong.

He then moved to California, recorded a slew of albums under his own name, starting

with the Valley High album,

1973, produced by Michael Nesmith of the Monkeys.

He's in total recorded over 50 albums, about 25 of these solo, six with a reformed Matthew's

Southern Comfort, playing song had a reunion at some point.

He's engaged in various collaborations that we'll talk about.

And a key part of my prep here was reading his 2018 memoir, Through My Eyes, a memoir.

Today we're going to talk about the title track from his brand new album, How Much Is Enough,

then another title track from his 1996 album, God Looked Down, and then we'll look all the way back to Road to Rondelin

by Matthews Southern Comfort from the album later that same year, 1970.

We'll conclude by listening to St. Teresa's Ghost by Ian Matthews and the Syrian Quartet from their

2008 album, Joy Mining. For more information, see Ian Matthews.N.s. That is, I-A-I-N-Mathews. For more about this podcast,

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