Cockahoop

"Cockahoop" is Cerys Matthews' first solo album, released in 2003. It went to #30 in the UK (5 weeks on Chart).

Tracks

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

Personnel

• Richard Bennett (Guitar) (also with Travis Tritt, Emmylou Harris)
• Ken Coomer (drums) (also with Uncle Tupelo/Wilco)
• Jim Hoke (multi-instrumentalist)

Produced by Bucky Baxter. Recorded and mixed by Chad Brown at Three Trees Studios, White Creek, Tennessee

External links

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/cerysmatthews/pages/cockahoop.shtml BBC Wales review
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/pw3n/ BBC review