Cockahoop
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{{Infobox album
| name = Cockahoop
| type = studio
| artist = Cerys Matthews
| cover = Cerys Matthews - Cockahoop.png
| alt =
| released = 19 May 2003
| recorded =
| studio = Three Trees Studios, White Creek, Tennessee, United States
| genre =
| length =
| label = Blanco y Negro
| producer = Bucky Baxter
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = Never Said Goodbye
| next_year = 2006
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Cockahoop
| type = studio
| single1 = Caught in the Middle
| single1date =
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|author=MacKenzie Wilson |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/cockahoop-mw0000142639 |title=Cockahoop – Cerys Matthews | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic|date=2003-05-27 |accessdate=2014-05-20}}
}}
Cockahoop is Cerys Matthews' first solo album, released in 2003. It peaked at number 30 on the UK Albums Chart, spending five weeks therein.{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| isbn= 1-904994-10-5
| page= 355}}
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
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|+ Chart performance of Cockahoop ! scope="col"| Chart (2003) ! scope="col"| Peak |
| {{album chart|UK2|30|date=20030525|rowheader=true|accessdate=10 September 2020}} |
References
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External links
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/cerysmatthews/pages/cockahoop.shtml BBC Wales review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205195423/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/cerysmatthews/pages/cockahoop.shtml |date=5 December 2004 }}
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/pw3n/ BBC review]
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