Matthews' Southern Comfort (album)

Matthews' Southern Comfort is the 1970 debut solo album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews, recorded after he left Fairport Convention in 1969. The musicians who played on it with Matthews were luminaries of the British folk rock scene and included ex-Fairport colleagues Ashley Hutchings, Simon Nicol and Richard Thompson, plus Gerry Conway, the drummer from Eclection and Fotheringay. The touring and recording band also named Matthews Southern Comfort, which released two more albums, Second Spring and Later That Same Year, was formed later, with only pedal steel player Gordon Huntley and Matthews appearing on all three albums. The Matthews' Southern Comfort album was released on the Uni label (a subsidiary of MCA Records) in January 1970 with a first single "Colorado Springs Eternal".