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
- Fairport Convention (1968) UK Polydor/ US Cotillion
- What We Did on Our Holidays (1968) UK Island/ US A&M
- Heyday(1986) BBC – recordings from 1968/1969 UK Island/ US Hannibal
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
- Woodstock (2009) Brinker Media
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
- Time Will Show The Wiser (2010) Brinker Media
With Ad van der Veen
- Ride the times (Turtle, 2010)
- Greetings from Grolloo (2024) Radz