Cockahoop is Cerys Matthews' first solo album, released in 2003. It peaked at number 30 on the UK Albums Chart, spending five weeks therein.
Track listing "Chardonnay" (w, m: Roger Cook, Hugh Cornwell) – 3:04 "Caught in the Middle" (m: Cerys Matthews, Fred Ball, Hadrian Gerrards; w: Cerys Matthews) – 3:12 "Louisiana" (m: Cerys Matthews, Ketcham Secor; w: Cerys Matthews) – 2:21 "Weightless Again" (m: Brett Sparks; w: Rennie Sparks (The Handsome Family) – 3:02 "Only a Fool" (w, m: Cerys Matthews) – 2:47 "La Bague" (trad. arr: Cerys Matthews) – 0:40 "...Interlude..." (AKA "The Miller of Hooterville") (trad. arr: Bucky Baxter) – 0:46 "Ocean" (m: Cerys Matthews, Antony Genn, Martin Slattery; w: Cerys Matthews) – 2:05 "Arglwydd Dyma Fi" (trad. arr: Cerys Matthews) – 3:35 "If You're Lookin' For Love" (w, m: James Stallard, Cerys Matthews) – 2:56 "The Good in Goodbye" (w, m: Cerys Matthews) – 3:05 "Gypsy Song" (m: Cerys Matthews, Martin Slattery, Joe Strummer; w: Cerys Matthews) – 3:49 "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
Charts + Chart performance of Cockahoop Chart (2003) Peakposition
References
External links BBC Wales review BBC review