Cockahoop

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Cockahoop
Studio album by Cerys Matthews
Released	19 May 2003
Studio	Three Trees Studios, White Creek, Tennessee, United States
Label	Blanco y Negro
Producer	Bucky Baxter
Cerys Matthews chronology
Cockahoop (2003) Never Said Goodbye (2006)
Singles from Cockahoop
"Caught in the Middle"

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

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

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)

Charts

Chart performance of Cockahoop

Chart (2003)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)	30

External links

• BBC Wales review
• BBC review