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Music CD - Ian Matthews: If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
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Music CD: If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
Artist: Ian Matthews
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Manufacturer: Water
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1. Desert Inn
2. Hearts
3. Never Ending
4. Reno Nevada
5. Little Known
6. Hinge
7. Southern Wind
8. It Came Without Warning
9. You Couldn't Lose
10. Morgan the Pirate
11. If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0646315720921
Label: Water
Manufacturer: Water
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Water
Release Date: 2007-11-02
Studio: Water
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Summary: Wonderful album
Comment: I have loved this record since I bought a second hand copy at Andy's record stall in Cambridge market in 1972. I still think it is the best thing Ian Matthews has done. 'Reno Nevada', with two of my favourite guitar players in Richard Thompson and Tim Renwick trading licks, has to be one of the great tracks ever.....
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Summary: The first ... the last ...everything.
Comment: Read the other 5 star reviews and note I have nothing to add to them. This is a treasure and it was worth the long, long wait.
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Summary: Epitomizes the year 1971
Comment: Ian Matthews gets high marks for this, his first official "solo album", after leaving Fairport Convention and putting out a couple records under the aegus of Matthews Southern Comfort.
This album draws on his strengths from his time in Fairport Convention, which were featured best in the BBC Sessions album "Heyday". Several cover versions from that compilation turned up on Matthews first solo albums, including Richard Farina's "Reno, Nevada", which is fleshed out on "If You Saw Thro.." by a harder edged arrangement and fine guitar interplay between Richard Thompson and Tim Renwick. Jamming guitars (acoustic this time) also dominant "Morgan the Pirate", Farina's diatribe against Bob Dylan, over a chord progression that strongly echoes the Ventures' "Walk Don't Run".
Other highlights include the sweetly melodic "It Came Without Warning", the Mason Proffit soundalike "Southern Wind", and "Never Ending", a ballad featuring avant-garde pianist Keith Tippett, better known for his work with the group King Crimson.
In the liner notes to this reissue, Matthews comments that this album may sound naive after thirty years...well, yes, but 1971 was a year awash in naivete. But with Richard Thompson and Sandy Denny on board, strong material, and Matthews honeyed voice, this still holds up as Ian's best overall effort.
Recommended.
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Summary: A gem
Comment: Agree with the previous reviewer. Put it on a few weeks ago while I was cleaning my vinyl. My wife had never heard it, and really liked it (she's no big fan of folk music either). The musicianship abounds.
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Summary: Stone Cold Classic
Comment: Ian Matthews 1971 work "If You Saw.........." has to be one of the corner stones of American folk classics that should have solidified Matthews reputation among the music listening populace.
A work that has been in and out of print in the UK, it has sadly gone unnoticed and forgotten.
I can recall its impact upon my own listening discernment way back in 1971. Being aquainted with Fairport Convention and Matthews connection what that band and Ian's offshoot Matthews Southern Comfort who gave the music world " Colorado Springs Eternal", "Commercial Proposition" as well as their interpretation of the Joni Mitchell hit "Woodstock" my expectations on a Matthew's solo outting were exciting to say the least.
Little was I prepared for what unfolded upon my first listening of this gem. From the open track of "Desert Inn" to the final track " If You Saw Thro' My Eyes" impacted me with it's eternal beauty that simply transcended much of what was being offered in the folk/rock genre of 1971.
Matthew's would go on well into the future writing and performing his heartfelt tales of life post "If You Saw Through......." with his follow ups "Tigers Will Survive (1972),Valley Hi/Some Days You Eat the Bear and Some Days the Bear Eats You (1973)(1974) that would firmly set these works as a trilogy to what he would create in the future.
"If You Saw Through My Eyes" holds up as if it had just been recorded in 2008 and in my book that qualifies it as a stone cold classic.
If you missed out in 1971 I highly recomend catching up in 2008 on what I term an 'eternal stunner'.[
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Editorial Reviews:
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One of the Founding Members of Fairport Convention, Ian Matthews Left that Group in 1969 (During the Recording of Unhalfbricking) to Pursue a Solo Career. Originally Released on Vertigo, 1971's If You Saw Thro' My Eyes was Matthews' Fourth Post-fairport Release and his Most Accomplished to Date. Finding Him Reunited with Former Bandmates Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson this Album features Many Fantastic Originals and Three Well Chosen Covers, Including Richard Farina's "Reno Nevada" and Exemplifies Matthews' Unique Ability to Mix Folk, Country, Blues and Pop. A British Folk-rock Classic Back in Print.
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