Driftwood is the sixth 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 October 8, 2001.

Driftwood is also the name of the recording studios, owned by Roy Dodds, where the tracks were all recorded during the same sessions for the previous album Simple Soul

Simple Soul

Simple Soul is the fifth studio album by Eddi Reader released in the UK on January 29, 2001.The album is a lot more stripped down than its predecessor, Angels and Electricity being predominantly folk and acoustic based...

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The album has a somewhat unique status as being almost an album of outtakes although critics and fans regarded it as a bona fide and worthy follow-up album in its own right.

The album was released independently by Reader herself and initially sold at the Simple Soul autumn 2001 tour dates. It can now be purchased via Eddi's official website.

A couple of the tracks are available on other albums as different versions. "Curragh of Kildare" would later resurface as "The winter it is past" on the Sings the Songs of Robert Burns

Sings the Songs of Robert Burns

Sings the Songs of Robert Burns is the seventh studio album by Eddi Reader. It was released in the UK on May 12, 2003.The album was premiered at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall as part of the Celtic Connections Festival in January 2003 and on release garnered Reader some of the best reviews of her...

 album whilst "Old Soul" was a reworking of "I felt a soul move through me" from Simple Soul

Simple Soul

Simple Soul is the fifth studio album by Eddi Reader released in the UK on January 29, 2001.The album is a lot more stripped down than its predecessor, Angels and Electricity being predominantly folk and acoustic based...

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"Wasting time" is a Ron Sexsmith

Ron Sexsmith

Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...

 song from his self-titled 1995 album

Ron Sexsmith (album)

Ron Sexsmith is the major label debut album of Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, released in 1995.-Track listing:#"Secret Heart" – 3:16#"There's a Rhythm" – 3:11#"Words We Never Use" – 3:04#"Summer Blowin' Town" – 2:19...

. Sexsmith had previously written "On a Whim" specifically for Reader which appeared on her 1998 album "Angels and Electricity".

"Good girl" was written for and used in the BBC drama "Real Women".

Track listing

1. "Old Soul" (Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine, Roy Dodds, Graham Henderson) - 5:55
2. "Sarasota" (Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine) - 3:22
3. "Meantime" (Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine, Calum MacColl, Roy Dodds) - 4:23
4. "Curragh of Kildare" (trad. arr. Eddi Reader) - 3:43
5. "Good Girl" (Eddi Reader) - 4:11
6. "Wasting Time" (Ron Sexsmith
   Ron Sexsmith
   Ronald Eldon "Ron" Sexsmith is a Canadian singer-songwriter from St. Catharines, Ontario, currently based in Toronto. He started his own band when he was fourteen years old, and released the first recordings of his own material seven years later, in 1985...
   
   ) - 4:36
7. "Paper Wings" (Gillian Welch
   Gillian Welch
   Gillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
   
   , David Rawlings
   David Rawlings
   David Todd Rawlings is a professional guitarist and singer. He is best known as the longtime musical partner of bluegrass singer-songwriter Gillian Welch.David attended the Berklee College of Music and studied with guitar professor Lauren Passarelli....
   
   ) - 3:21
8. "Holiday" (Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine) - 2:50
9. "Small Soul Sailing" (Eddi Reader) - 5:43
10. "New Pretender" (Boo Hewerdine) - 2:59
11. "Forgive the Boy" (Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine) - 4:11
12. "Everything" (Eddi Reader, Boo Hewerdine, Calum MacColl, Roy Dodds) - 3:37

Personnel

• Eddi Reader – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
• Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine
  Boo Hewerdine is an English singer-songwriter. His work includes lead singer and creative force behind The Bible, formed in the 1980s, and reformed in 1994, as well as solo recordings and work for film. He lives in Ely....
  
   – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Teddy Borowiecki – keyboards, accordion, Indian harmonium
• Tim Harries
  Tim Harries
  Tim Harries is a British bass player.Harries studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before going on to study Double Bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music...
  
   – bass guitar
• Roy Dodds – drums, percussion
• Adam Kirk – dobro, acoustic and electric guitars
• Dawson Salah Miller – frame drum, udu
• Johnny Scott – pedal steel, acoustic guitar
• Clive Gregson
  Clive Gregson
  Clive Gregson is an English singer/songwriter, musician and record producer. He has toured in bands, provided backup for well-known musicians, and written songs that have been covered by Kim Carnes, Norma Waterson and Nanci Griffith.-Solo:At the end of 1984 Gregson released his first solo record,...
  
  – acoustic guitar
• Calum MacColl – guitar