Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock.wmv

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S.A. TOP 20 HISTORY:
Entered: 13 November 1970
Highest position: 3
Weeks charted: 12

Iain Matthews (born 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter. He was born Iain Matthew McDonald, in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He was known in the 1960s first as Ian McDonald, and later as Ian Matthews. He then chose to reclaim his first name, however with a different surname derived from his middle name: Iain Matthews. Influenced by both rock and roll and folk music, he has performed mainly as a solo act, although he was a member of Fairport Convention during the early period when they were heavily influenced by American West Coast folk rock. He later had a solo career and fronted the bands Plainsong, Hi-Fi, No Grey Faith, More Than A Song and Matthews Southern Comfort. "Woodstock" is a cover of a song by Joni Mitchell about the Woodstock Music and Art Festival of 1969. Joni wrote the song from what she had heard from then-boyfriend, Graham Nash, about the festival, as she had not been there herself.