Cockahoop Explained

Cockahoop
Type:	studio
Artist:	Cerys Matthews
Cover:	Cerys Matthews - Cockahoop.png
Released:	19 May 2003
Studio:	Three Trees Studios, White Creek, Tennessee, United States
Label:	Blanco y Negro
Producer:	Bucky Baxter
Next Title:	Never Said Goodbye
Next Year:	2006

Cockahoop is Cerys Matthews' first solo album, released in 2003. It peaked at number 30 on the UK Albums Chart, spending five weeks therein.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Chardonnay" (w, m: Roger Cook, Hugh Cornwell) – 3:04
2. "Caught in the Middle" (m: Cerys Matthews, Fred Ball, Hadrian Gerrards; w: Cerys Matthews) – 3:12
3. "Louisiana" (m: Cerys Matthews, Ketcham Secor; w: Cerys Matthews) – 2:21
4. "Weightless Again" (m: Brett Sparks; w: Rennie Sparks (The Handsome Family) – 3:02
5. "Only a Fool" (w, m: Cerys Matthews) – 2:47
6. "La Bague" (trad. arr: Cerys Matthews) – 0:40
7. "...Interlude..." (AKA "The Miller of Hooterville") (trad. arr: Bucky Baxter) – 0:46
8. "Ocean" (m: Cerys Matthews, Antony Genn, Martin Slattery; w: Cerys Matthews) – 2:05
9. "Arglwydd Dyma Fi" (trad. arr: Cerys Matthews) – 3:35
10. "If You're Lookin' For Love" (w, m: James Stallard, Cerys Matthews) – 2:56
11. "The Good in Goodbye" (w, m: Cerys Matthews) – 3:05
12. "Gypsy Song" (m: Cerys Matthews, Martin Slattery, Joe Strummer; w: Cerys Matthews) – 3:49
13. "All My Trials" (trad. arr: Cerys Matthews) – 3:11

Personnel

• Bucky Baxter – producer, electric guitar, fiddle, vibraphone
• Richard Bennett – guitar, bouzouki, banjo
• Ken Coomer – drums
• Eric Darken – marimba, vibraphone
• Lloyd Green – pedal steel guitar
• Jim Hoke – multi-instrumentalist
• Glenn Worf – bass
• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle
• Chad Brown – recording and mixing (at Three Trees Studios, White Creek, Tennessee)
• Greg Fogie - recording engineer

External links

• BBC Wales review
• BBC review

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberts , David . 2006. British Hit Singles & Albums. 19th. Guinness World Records Limited . London. 1-904994-10-5. 355.