Best of Matthews Southern Comfort featuring Ian Matthews

Ian Matthews | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MCA
• ASIN: B000002OJL
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #487,740 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Woodstock

2. And When She Smiles (She Makes the Sun Shine)

3. Even As

4. Something in the Way She Moves

5. Blood Red Roses

6. The Watch

7. Tell Me Why

8. Southern Comfort

9. Mare, Take Me Home

10. Sylvie

11. Ballad of Obray Ramsey

12. To Love

13. I've Lost You

14. Once upon a Lifetime

15. My Lady

16. Road to Ronderlin

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unmistakeable Ian Matthews, good tunes & good memories, April 20, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Best of Matthews Southern Comfort featuring Ian Matthews (Audio CD)

Iam disappointed that "Morgan the Pirate" is not on this CD! I believe this was his best recording and the CD is incomplete with it missing. For this reason I gave the CD only 4 stars. It is great to hear "Woodstock" and "Southern Comfort" again, why these tunes do not get air time is beyond me.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars For Your Best Version Of Woodstock, May 31, 2006

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David Lord "melodicmetalrules" (Clemons, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Matthews Southern Comfort featuring Ian Matthews (Audio CD)

I am not a real folk rock fan. That being said, Ian Matthews' version of Woodstock is one of the best mellower songs ever recorded and even if I don't love a lot of his songs, I never find them abrasive either.

I personally wish he would have written more songs in the pop/rock genre. I have a beautiful green vinyl version of Stealin' Home and the whole album smokes! If you like mellower folk this album or his Fairport Convention material may be for you. If you like a little more of a melancholy pop/rock edge to your great songwriting check out Ian Matthews' solo album Stealin' Home. The songs Gimme an Inch Girl and Shake It were rightfully hits (Shake It being Matthews highest charting single at #13 on the Billboard charts).

Note That Best of Matthews' Southern Comfort includes all but 2 songs from the Matthews' Southern Comfort album Later That Same Year, which is out of print. The other 7 songs can be found on the Second Spring / Matthews' Southern Comfort CD, which I personally find less impressive than Later That Same Year.