Candyfloss and Medicine

Infobox Album | Name = Candyfloss and medicine
Type = Album
Artist = Eddi Reader


Released = Flagicon|United Kingdom July 8 1996
Flagicon|Japan July 25 1996
Flagicon|United States July 5 1997
Recorded = Gerry O’Riordan (The Snake Ranch, London)
David Bottrill (Eden Studios, London)
Genre = Pop
Length = 45:10
Label = Blanco y Negro
Producer = Eddi Reader
Teddy Borowiecki
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dcd7ylkoxpzb link]
Last album = Eddi Reader (1994)
This album = Candyfloss and Medicine (1996)
Next album = Angels & Electricity (1998)

Candyfloss and Medicine is the third studio album by Eddi Reader released in the UK on July 8, 1996, which peaked #24 in the UK charts.

Two singles were released in the UK: "Town without pity" and "Medicine" with various additional tracks including two covers from brother Frank's band Trashcan Sinatras: "Earlies" and "Sex Lives" and, nearly a decade before the hugely successful Robert Burns project, "John Anderson My Joe" and "Green Grow the Rashes".

The US release of the album the following year was enhanced by three additional tracks: "Sugar on the Pill", "If You Got a Minute, Baby" and "Shall I be Mother?" which featured ex-Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. The UK single "Town Without Pity" was dropped for this version.

Track listing

UK release

#"Glasgow Star" (Reader/Borowiecki) - 4:51
#"Town Without Pity" (Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington) - 2:49
#"Medicine" (Reader/Borowiecki/Hewerdine) - 4:12
#"Rebel Angel" (Reader/Neil MacColl/Calum MacColl/Roy Dodds) - 4:43
#"Semi Precious" (Reader/Borowiecki/Hewerdine) - 3:21
#"Lazy Heart" (Reader/Hewerdine) - 5:25
#"I Loved a Lad" (trad. arr. Reader) - 5:01
#"Butterfly Jar" (Reader/Hewerdine/Calum MacColl) - 5:33
#"Candyfloss" (Hewerdine/Reader) - 3:23
#"Darkhouse" (Reader/Calum MacColl) - 5:30

US release

#"Glasgow Star"
#"Candyfloss"
#"Rebel, Angel"
#"Sugar On The Pill"
#"Semi Precious"
#"Medicine"
#"If You Got A Minute, Baby"
#"Lazy Heart"
#"Shall I Be Mother?"
#"Butterfly Jar"
#"I Loved A Lad"
#"Darkhouse"

Personnel

*Eddi Reader: Vocals, concertina, harmonica, piano
*Boo Hewerdine: Acoustic and electric guitars
*Teddy Borowiecki: Keyboards, guitar, bass, accordion, melodica, percussion
*Roy Dodds: Drums, percussion, hand claps, loop drumming
*Calum MacColl: Acoustic and electric guitars, bowed guitar, dulcimer, penny-whistle, zither
*David Piltch: Electric and acoustic bass
*Bernard Butler: Electric guitar
*Dominic Miller: Electric nylon guitar
*Anthony Thistlethwaite: Mandolin
*The Electra Strings: Strings
*Kat Evans: Fiddle, electric violin
*Sid Gauld: Trumpet
*Richard Sidwell: Trumpet
*Michael Smith: Tenor horn
*Annie Whitehead: Trombone
*Martin Green: Soprano saxophone
*Misses La La: Backing vocals