Candyfloss and Medicine is the third studio album by Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader

Eddi Reader MBE is a Scottish singer-songwriter, known both for her work with Fairground Attraction and for an enduring solo career. She is the recipient of three BRIT Awards and has topped both the album and singles charts...

 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

Robert Burns

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide...

 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

Suede (band)

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 guitarist Bernard Butler

Bernard Butler

Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...

. The UK single "Town Without Pity" was dropped for this version.

UK release

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

US release

1. "Glasgow Star"
2. "Candyfloss"
3. "Rebel, Angel"
4. "Sugar On The Pill"
5. "Semi Precious"
6. "Medicine"
7. "If You Got A Minute, Baby"
8. "Lazy Heart"
9. "Shall I Be Mother?"
10. "Butterfly Jar"
11. "I Loved A Lad"
12. "Darkhouse"

Personnel

• Eddi Reader: Vocals, concertina, harmonica, piano
• Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine
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  : 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
  Bernard Butler
  Bernard Joseph Butler is an English musician and record producer. He first emerged in the early Britpop era with Suede. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation, as well as one of Britain's most original and influential guitarists...
  
  : Electric guitar
• Dominic Miller
  Dominic Miller
  Dominic Miller is an Argentine-English guitarist who toured and recorded with World Party and King Swamp, worked on Phil Collins' solo album ...But Seriously and played guitar on every Sting album and tour since 1990...
  
  : Electric nylon guitar
• Anthony Thistlethwaite
  Anthony Thistlethwaite
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  : Mandolin
• The Electra Strings: Strings
• Kat Evans: Fiddle, electric violin
• Sid Gauld: Trumpet
• Richard Sidwell: Trumpet
• Michael Smith: Tenor horn
• Annie Whitehead
  Annie Whitehead
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  : Trombone
• Martin Green: Soprano saxophone
• Misses La La: Backing vocals