Ian Matthews: Countryside Comfort
Mick Houghton, Let It Rock, October 1973
IT SEEMED almost inevitable that Ian Matthews would find himself living and recording on the West coast of America, and he admitted that before he actually moved there a few months ago, it had been at the back of his mind for three or four years.
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