Iain Matthews

The following is a partial discography; a comprehensive discography is available [3] (http://www.iainmatthews.com/disco.htm) on Matthews' personal site. In February 2005 she did a guest appearance on the Canadian television show Degrassi: The Next Generation along with Dogma co-star Jason Mewes and director Kevin Smith. Since that time, Matthews has had a moderately successful career, releasing records on a number of small labels in Germany, the UK, and the U.S., before moving to Amsterdam in 2000, where he continues to be involved in various indy projects and collaborations, including the Sandy Denny tribute band No Grey Faith and yet another revival of Plainsong. Morissette refers to herself as a Canadian-American. He also appeared with Andy Roberts at the 1992 Cambridge Folk Festival, which led to the first of what were to be several reformed version of Plainsong. On 11 February 2005, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States while still maintaining her Canadian citizenship. It also led to his first truly solo performances: his previous "solo" outings had always been as a front man for a one-shot band. She performed the song "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love", and had a brief acting role as an anonymous stage performer.

It led, however, to hooking up with producer Mark Hallman — a longtime fan — moving to Austin, Texas, and recording several albums for a series of German independent labels. In July 2004, Morissette appeared in the motion picture De-lovely, a tribute to composer Cole Porter. This led to Walking a Changing Line (1988) on Windham Hill, an unlikely album-length tribute to Jules Shear of Jules and the Polar Bears. The date of the wedding has not yet been finalized. Matthews was invited to join them to perform, both with them and in other configurations, at the 1986 Cropredy Festival. In June 2004, Morissette announced her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds. Since 1974, Fairport Convention had been staging the annual Cropredy Festival; since 1979, this annual reunion had been pretty much their only activity as a band, but in the mid-1980s several of them were interested in reviving the band and had done some recording. On May 18, 2004, the cable channel Oxygen taped an unprecedented eight hours of live footage, showing Morissette in New York City promoting the release of her new album.

He worked for a while in an A&R capacity at Island Music and then new-agey Windham Hill Records. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart to generally favorable critical reviews. Neither this nor a return to solo recording in England turned his luck. In May 2004, Morissette released So-Called Chaos. Soul" and Prince's "When U Were Mine". clips and eventually childhood footage, the clips were digitally edited to make it appear that Morissette was singing the song at all of those times. As Matthews' official web site writes, at this point he "had been struggling for nearly 15 years now and was still living hand to mouth, with nothing to show for his efforts but a string of out-of-print albums, and the loyalty of those musicians and fans who shared his vision." [2] (http://www.iainmatthews.com/bio.htm) He moved from Los Angeles to then-inexpensive Seattle, where he teamed up with David Surkamp, formerly of the Seattle band Pavlov's Dog, to form the New Wave band Hi-Fi, whose repertoire included Matthews originals, but also covers of Neil Young's "Mr. Beginning in present day and passing through former videos, movie and T.V.

Label-owner Shelly Siegel, died suddenly in 1979, leaving the label rudderless. Morissette's music video for the single "8 Easy Steps" featured various video clips spanning her career in music, film and television. However, the North American rights for his album were held by the small Canadian label Mushroom. The joke was, however, that Morissette was still forced to "remove" her pasted-on nipples and pubic hair because they were not allowed to be shown on public television. He bounced from Elektra to CBS Records, to the small Rockburgh label, where he finally scored a hit single in 1978 with a cover of Terence Boylan's "Shake It", and a moderately successful follow-up covering Robert Palmer's "Gimme an Inch". Stepping out of a nightgown and wearing a semi-nude bodysuit, Morissette said, "We live in a land Canada where we still think the human body is beautiful and we're not afraid of the female breast.". After Plainsong collapsed due to a bandmate's alcohol problem, and with his career now based in Los Angeles, he released several more albums with ad hoc bands, including one produced by ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith, but none met with commercial success. At the event, Morissette satirized the public outrage caused by Janet Jackson's breast-baring incident during the Super Bowl.

It also included "Even the Guiding Light", a spiritually positive answer to Thompson’s powerful but bleak "Meet on the Ledge". Sporting a short, new hairdo, Morissette looked like a drastically different person from the angry, long-haired woman who once wrote and sang "You Oughta Know". The album included a cover of Dave McEnery's "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight", plus a song of Matthews' own, "True Story of Amelia Earhart's Last Night" based on the research that suggest that Earhart on her round-the-world flight may have been spying on Japanese bases in the Pacific islands. In April 2004, Alanis Morissette hosted the Juno Awards of 2004, which was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. After solo two albums on Vertigo Records, under the sponsorship of former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith and surrounded by a who's who of likeminded British semi-folkies (notably another ex-Fairporter, Richard Thompson), he formed Plainsong, who signed to Elektra Records and in 1972 produced In Search of Amelia Earhart, which solidified Matthews' songwriting reputation with the critics, if not with the general public. "Everything", the first single off of Morissette's fourth international studio album So-Called Chaos, was released to radio in March 2004. The band went through several different lineups and toured extensively for the next two years, to general critical acclaim but no great commercial success. In response to the Super Bowl halftime controversy that occurred earlier in 2004, and the stricter Federal Communications Commission regulations that followed, Morissette changed the first line of her song, "Everything", from "I can be an asshole of the grandest kind" to "I can be a nightmare of the grandest kind" for radio.

With Thompson, Nicol, and Hutchings from Fairport, plus drummer Gerry Conway (of Fotheringay, and later to join Fairport) and pedal steel player Gordon Huntley, he formed Matthews Southern Comfort, whose sound was rooted in American country music and rockabilly; this was his first significant experience as a songwriter, although the band also covered the likes of Neil Young and Ian and Sylvia. In November 2003, Morissette appeared in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated as Sunny Jacobs, a death row inmate freed after proof surfaced that she didn't commit the crime. In 1969, as Fairport's music veered more toward British folk influences, Matthews was booted out. Morissette and her concert attenders later indicated that she had in fact said, "Thank you, bless you", but by then the damage to her reputation had already been done. He recorded a couple of singles there in 1967 with a pop band called Pyramid, before being recruited by Ashley Hutchings as a male vocalist for Fairport Convention, where he duetted first with Judy Dyble, but more famously with Sandy Denny. In September 2003, Morissette made headlines for supposedly exclaiming, "Thank you, Brazil!" after a show in Lima, Peru. He moved to London in 1966, taking a job in a Carnaby Street shoe store. In December 2002, Morissette released a dual CD/DVD combination package, Feast on Scraps, which included live concert footage and eight previously unreleased songs from the Under Rug Swept recording sessions. The album was nominated for a Juno for Music DVD of the Year.

Matthews grew up in a working class family in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, where he sang with several minor bands during the British pop music explosion of the mid-1960s. The album was overlooked by the Grammy Awards, most likely due to its release date, but Morissette won yet another Juno Award for Producer of the Year. He later had a solo career and fronted the bands Plainsong and Matthews Southern Comfort. [1] (http://www.richieunterberger.com/matthews.html). Despite eleven very well-received songs, Maverick Records only released two of them as singles, a move criticized by many fans. Influenced by both rock'n'roll and folk music, he has performed mainly as a solo act, alghouth he was a member of Fairport Convention during the early period where they were heavily influenced by American West Coast folk rock. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, and sold close to a million copies in the United States alone, even though only one song from the album received any substantial radio airplay. Iain Matthews (known in the 1960s first as Ian MacDonald, and from the late 1960s until 1989 as Ian Matthews) is a British musician and songwriter. The song's multi-layered lyrics told the story of a young Morissette's affair with an older man from two points of view:.

Plainsong, Pangolins (2003) Blue Rose. The album spawned the hit single "Hands Clean". Iain Matthews and Elliot Murphy, La Terre Commune (2001) Blue Rose / rfect Pitch / Eminent. For the first time, Morissette took on the role of sole writer and producer. Iain Matthews and Elliot Murphy, The Official Blue Rose Bootleg (2001) Blue Rose. In 2002, after a four-year absence, Alanis Morissette released her third international studio album Under Rug Swept, with the notable absence of Jagged Little Pill and Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie collaborator Glen Ballard. No Grey Faith, Secrets All Told — The Songs of Sandy Denny (2000) Perfect Pitch / Unique Gravity. She also appeared on the hit HBO comedies Sex and the City and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and starred in the play The Vagina Monologues.

Iain Matthews, Excerpts from Swine Lake (1998) Blue Rose. She had to turn down the female lead, and by the time her schedule allowed her to participate in the film, only the role of God, which involves virtually no speech and appears at the very end of the film, was left. Iain Matthews, Skeleton Keys (1992) Line. Smith, who claimed to be a big fan of Morissette, asked her to be in the film several times. Ian Matthews, Walking a Changing Line (1986) Windham Hill. She appeared as God in the motion picture Dogma, directed by Kevin Smith. Hi-Fi,Moods for Mallards (1982) First American Records; live mini-album. In 1999, Alanis Morissette expanded her résumé by delving into acting.

Hi-Fi,Demonstration Record (1982) First American Records; live mini-album. Many fans now consider Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie to be Morissette's strongest work to date. Ian Matthews, Siamese Friends (1979) Rockburgh. Many critics wrote off the album as a flop; however, repeating the incredible success of Jagged Little Pill was an almost impossible task that Morissette never expected nor set out to do. Ian Matthews, Stealin' Home (1978) Rockburgh. That same year, Morissette released the live acoustic album MTV Unplugged. Ian Matthews, Hit and Run (1977) CBS. The first single, "Thank U", was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

Ian Matthews, Go For Broke (1976) CBS. In 1999, the song "Uninvited" won two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. Ian Matthews, Some Days You Eat the Bear...Some Days the Bear Eats You (1974) Elektra. Its wordy, personal lyrics turned many fans off, and after only 38 weeks, it left the Billboard 200, selling "only" 2.5 million, a huge drop from Jagged. Plainsong, In Search of Amelia Earhart (1972) Elektra. As a follow-up to Jagged Little Pill, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie had very little staying power. Ian Matthews, Tigers Will Survive (1972) Vertigo. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, breaking the record for the most albums sold in a single week by a female artist.

Matthews Southern Comfort, The Essential Collection (1997) Half Moon (a retrospective of 1970s recordings). and "I Was Hoping", which recounts several experiences that shaped Morissette's life, including an encounter in a restaurant with a chauvinistic waiter:. Matthews Southern Comfort, Later That Same Year (1970) MCA. Most of the songs on the disc challenged "traditional" song formulas, including "The Couch":. Matthews Southern Comfort, Second Spring (1970) MCA. Obviously, Morissette was no longer pursuing commercial success. Fairport Convention, Heyday(1986) BBC - a release of recordings from 1968/1969. 2, which would have been the commercially savvy thing to do.

Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays(1968) Polydor. Morissette didn't release Jagged Little Pill, Pt. Fairport Convention, Fairport Convention(1968) Island. Fans and critics alike were shocked. Pyramid, "The Summer of Last Year"/"Summer evening" (1967) Deram Records; his first recording. Morissette once again collaborated with Glen Ballard, but this time she helped produce the album as well. Later that year, she released Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (lyrics (http://www.angelfire.com/mi/wojtkiewicz/supposed.html)), an experimental album with a wordy title and lyrics to match.

A year later, Morissette auditioned for a role on the Canadian children's television show You Can't Do That on Television, shot in Ottawa, her hometown. With the help of her childhood mentor Leslie Howe, Morissette released "Fate Stay With Me" when she was 11 years old. In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:. I want to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you.".

When she was 9 years old, she went to the home of singer Olivia Newton-John, one of her early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: "Hi, I'm Alanis. Morissette showed a love for singing and songwriting at an early age. She has an older brother, Chad, and a twin brother, Wade. Alanis Morissette was born on June 1, 1974, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, to schoolteachers Alan and Georgia Morissette.