Iain Matthews (born Ian Matthews MacDonald in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, on 16 June 1946), also popularly known as Ian Matthews, is an English musician and singer-songwriter who was an original member of the British folk-rock band Fairport Convention from 1967 to 1969 before leaving to form his own band, Matthews Southern Comfort. With a long singing career dating from the swinging 1960s, where he released material as the vocalist of Pyramid