Iain Matthews has been played on NTS shows including Light in the Attic, with Tried So Hard first played on 16 September 2017.

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, Matthews joined Fairport Convention, formed and left Matthews' Southern Comfort, and…