Discography

Solo

  • Pyramid, “The Summer of Last Year”/”Summer Evening” (1967) UK Derman; his first recording (single)
  • Matthews’ Southern Comfort (see below)
  • If You Saw Thro’ My Eyes (1971) UK and US Vertigo
  • Tigers Will Survive (1972) UK and US Vertigo
  • Valley Hi (1973) UK and US Elektra
  • Journeys from Gospel Oak (1974) UK Mooncrest
  • Some Days You Eat the Bear…Some Days the Bear Eats You (1974) UK and US Elektra
  • Go For Broke (1976) UK CBS/ US Columbia
  • Hit and Run (1977) UK CBS/ US Columbia
  • Stealin’ Home (1978) UK Rockburgh/ US Mushroom
  • Siamese Friends (1979) Rockburgh/ US Mushroom
  • Discreet Repeat (1979) Rockburgh
  • Spot of Interference (1980) UK Rockburgh/US RSO
  • Shook (1984) Polydor
  • Walking a Changing Line (1988) Windham Hill
  • Pure and Crooked (1990) Gold Castle
  • Skeleton Keys (1992) Line
  • The Dark Ride (1994) Watermelon
  • God Looked Down (1996) Watermelon
  • The Seattle Years 1978–1984 (1996) Varèse Sarabande
  • Excerpts from Swine Lake (1998) Blue Rose
  • Orphans & Outcasts Volume 3
  • A Tiniest Wham
  • If You Saw thro’ My Eyes – Live (2005) It’s About Music
  • Zumbach’s coat (2005) Blue Rose / Perfect Pitch / Eminent
  • Contact in Live (2008)
  • The Art of Obscurity (2013) Perfect Pitch / Omnivore Music / Fled’ling|
  • A Baker’s Dozen (2017) Perfect Pitch
  • Fake Tan (2020) New Noise/ CRS
  • How much is enough (2024) CRS

Fairport Convention

Matthews Southern Comfort

  • Matthews’ Southern Comfort (1969) UK Uni/ US Decca (first solo album)
  • Second Spring (1969) UK Uni/ US Decca
  • Later That Same Year (1970) UK Uni / US Decca
  • The Essential Collection (1997) Half Moon (retrospective of 1970s recordings)
  • Kind of New (2010) Brilliant/Genepool BMCD1010
  • Kind of Live (2011) Perfect Pitch
  • Like a Radio (2017) MIG Music
  • The New Mine ( 2020) MIG
  • The Woodstock Album (2023) CRS

Plainsong

  • In Search of Amelia Earhart (1972) UK and US Elektra
  • On Air (1992) Band of Joy (BBC Recordings from 1972)
  • Voices Electric (1994) Line
  • New Place Now (1999) Blue Rose
  • Pangolins (2003) Blue Rose
  • Reinventing Richard: The Songs of Richard Farina (2015) Fledg’ling

Hi-Fi

  • Demonstration Record (1982) First American Records; live mini-album
  • Moods for Mallards (1982) First American Records

No Grey Faith

  • Secrets All Told – The Songs of Sandy Denny (2000) Perfect Pitch / Unique Gravity

Collaborations

With Julian Dawson

  • Songs from the Red Couch – Live (1996)

With Elliott Murphy

  • The Official Blue Rose Bootleg (2001) Blue Rose
  • La Terre Commune (2001) Blue Rose / Perfect Pitch / Eminent

With the Searing Quartet

  • Joy Mining (2008) Perfect Pitch (an easy listening/jazz oriented album)

With Nick Vernier Band

With Egbert Derix

  • Joy Mining (2008) Matrix
  • Afterwords (2010) Matrix
  • In the Now (2012) Verve, Fledg’ling(UK),Omnivore(US)
  • That is to Say (2012) DVD
  • The Making of in the Now (2013) Documentary

With Nick Vernier Band and Emitt Rhodes

With Ad van der Veen