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Swimming in Champagne is the debut album by the American singer Eric Heatherly, released in 2000.[7]

Swimming in Champagne
Studio album by Eric Heatherly
Released	April 18, 2000 (2000-04-18)
Genre	Rockabilly[1] country rock[2]
Label	Mercury Records[3]
Producer	Keith Stegall
Eric Heatherly chronology
Swimming in Champagne (2000) The Lower East Side of Life (2005)
Singles from Swimming in Champagne
"Flowers on the Wall" Released: February 26, 2000 "Swimming in Champagne" Released: September 16, 2000 "Wrong Five O'Clock" Released: November 4, 2000

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Calgary Herald	[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]
USA Today	[6]

The album contains a cover of "Flowers on the Wall", originally recorded by the Statler Brothers in 1965. Heatherly's cover was released as the album's lead-off single, peaking at number 6 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and number 50 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second and third singles were the title track and "Wrong Five O'Clock", which respectively reached numbers 46 and 32 on the country chart. The album peaked at number 157 on the Billboard 200.[8]

Production

The album was produced by Keith Stegall.[9] Heatherly cowrote every song aside from the Statler Brothers cover.[10]

Critical reception

Country Standard Time wrote that "the barroom anthems are tempered by the beautiful title ballad and the first single, a reworking of the Statler Brothers classic, 'Flowers On The Wall', that is different enough to succeed in the face of the original."[11] The Morning Call thought that "trafficking in typical rock-country hybrids, this freshly minted singer-songwriter pens tunes that tell a story, not unlike, say, John Mellencamp, Tom Petty or Johnny Cash."[2]

Track listing

1. "Someone Else's Cadillac" (Eric Heatherly, Cris Moore, Ed Hill) – 4:12
2. "I Just Break 'Em" (Heatherly, Tim Schumacher) – 3:59
3. "Didn't Mean a Thing" (Heatherly, Christopher Ward) – 5:01
4. "One Night" (Heatherly, Michael Hunter Ochs) – 4:06
5. "Why Don'tcha" (Heatherly, Richard E. Carpenter, Ochs) – 4:03
6. "Flowers on the Wall" (Lew DeWitt) – 3:29
7. "Let Me" (Heatherly, John Sieger) – 3:57
8. "Swimming in Champagne" (Heatherly, Carpenter) – 4:26
9. "Wrong Five O'Clock" (Heatherly, Carpenter) – 2:36
10. "Freedom Chain" (Heatherly, Carpenter, Moore) – 3:58
11. "She's So Hot" (Heatherly, Carpenter, Ochs) – 6:17

Eric Heatherly's band

• Richard E. Carpenter – drums
• Jonathan Hamby – keyboards
• Eric Heatherly – lead vocals, electric guitar
• Jim Roller – bass guitar

Additional musicians

• Randy McCormick – keyboards
• Gary Prim – piano
• John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
• John Willis – acoustic guitar
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar

Chart performance

Chart (2000)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	17
U.S. Billboard 200	157
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	6
Canadian RPM Country Albums	6

References

• Swimming in Champagne (CD liner notes). Eric Heatherly. Mercury Records. 2000. 088 170 124-2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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