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Release Date: 08 May 2026
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 6
Barcode: 5013929786608
Genres: Rock Progressive Rock
Description
• Marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 release of 'Go For Broke', an 80-track, 6CD box set retrospective from singer/songwriter Iain Matthews.
• Featuring 2026 expanded versions of his two albums made for Columbia Records during the latter half of the 1970s, 'Go For Broke' and 'Hit And Run'.
• Plus two live performances from the legendary US music venue Ebbets Field in Denver, Colorado with his bands Motion and The Falling Rock Band.
• With a wealth of previously unissued material from Iain’s archives, including a newly-compiled CD of live performances, 'Columbia Years Live 1979-2022’.
• Including six songs performed live that were never recorded for his studio albums: 'Payday', 'Truck Driving Man', 'Faith To Arise', 'Nobody', 'Palm Springs Jump' and 'Trouble In Paradise'.
Still making albums and playing live to this day, Iain Matthews’ career in the music business now spans some 60 years and can rightly be described as legendary. An original member of the folk rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969, he left to form his own band Matthews Southern Comfort, topping the UK charts with a cover of Joni Mitchell's 'Woodstock’. In the 1970s, as well as recording solo albums for the Vertigo, Elektra, Columbia and Rockburgh labels, he was also a founder member of Plainsong alongside guitarist and singer Andy Roberts. Based around their 1972 debut album, 'In Search Of Amelia Earhart’, Plainsong’s 6-CD box set 'Following Amelia’ can also be found on Cherry Red Records.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE
Go For Broke
1. Darkness, Darkness
2. I’ll Be Gone
3. Brown Eyed Girl
4. Rhythm Of The West
5. Groovin’
6. Lonely Hunter
7. Steamboat
8. A Fool Like You
9. Just One Look
10. When The Morning Comes
The 'Go For Broke’ Demos
11. So Sad
12. Groovin’
'Go For Broke’ Revisited
13. Lonely Hunter (Live, Tokyo 1991)
14. Brown Eyed Girl (Live, Heilbronn 2004)
15. Darkness, Darkness (Live, Vorhees NJ 2011)
DISC TWO
Hit And Run
1. The Frame
2. One Day Without You
3. Times
4. I Will Not Fade Away
5. Tigers Will Survive
6. Just One Look
7. Help To Guide Me (I Need Your Help)
8. Shuffle
9. Hit And Run
'Hit And Run’ Revisited
10. Just One Look (Live, Nottingham 1991)
11. The Frame (Live, Long Island NY 2012)
DISC THREE
Live At Ebbets Field, June 1976 - Ian Matthews 'n’ Motion, Live At Ebbets Field, Denver CO
1. Steamboat
2. Hit And Run
3. Rhythm Of The West
4. I Will Not Fade Away
5. Payday
6. Times
7. Tigers Will Survive
8. Shuffle
9. Faith To Arise
10. Nobody
11. Truck Driving Man
12. Brown Eyed Girl
DISC FOUR
Live At Ebbetts Field, May 1977 - Ian Matthews & The Falling Rock Band, Live At Ebbets Field, Denver CO
1. Just One Look
2. Times
3. Rhythm Of The West
4. Tigers Will Survive
5. Help To Guide Me (I Need Your Help)
6. Brown Eyed Girl
7. I Will Not Fade Away
8. Shuffle
9. Hit And Run
10. Lonely Hunter
Thank You And Goodnight!
11. Hit And Run (Live, Phoenix AZ 1977)
12. Palm Springs Jump (Live, Baton Rouge LA 1977)
13. Payday (Live, Baton Rouge LA 1977)
DISC FIVE
Columbia Years Live (1976 - 1977)
Rock Around The World 1976 Ian Matthews 'n’ Motion, Live at Paul’s Mall, Boston MA
1. Shuffle
2. Tigers Will Survive
3. Darkness, Darkness
4. Faith To Arise
The Hit And Run Rehearsal Tape 1977 - Ian Matthews & The Falling Rock Band, SIR Studios, LA
5. The Frame
6. Trouble In Paradise
7. One Day Without You
8. Tigers Will Survive
9. Times
10. Faith To Arise
11. Shuffle
12. Help To Guide Me (I Need Your Help)
13. Hit And Run
14. I Will Not Fade Away
15. Just One Look
DISC SIX
Columbia Years Live (1979 - 2022)
1. Tigers Will Survive (Amsterdam 79)
2. Lonely Hunter (Brussels 79)
3. Brown Eyed Girl (Brussels 79)
4. Just One Look (New York 79)
5. Lonely Hunter (Milan 84)
6. Lonely Hunter (Northampton MA 88)
7. Darkness, Darkness (Santa Monica CA 90)
8. Just One Look (Nuremberg 88)
9. Brown Eyed Girl (Swindon 04)
10. The Frame (Amen 08)
11. Darkness, Darkness/If My Eyes Were Blind/ Darkness, Darkness (Reprise) (Lage Vuursche 10)
12. The Frame (Bergen 11)
13. Brown Eyed Girl (Pontefract 16)
14. Darkness, Darkness (Cropredy 22)
Various Artists
Various Artists
The 5th Dimension
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Pallas
Martin Barre
Manraze
Kim Wilde
Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews
Iain Matthews
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