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The Crock of Gold was the second and final full-length album by Shane MacGowan and the Popes and was released in November 1997 on ZTT Records. The Crock of Gold followed The Snake, MacGowan's first solo album after the breakup of the Pogues, and was less critically acclaimed than its predecessor. The album is named for the novel by Irish writer James Stephens. It is the last full studio album MacGowan recorded before his passing in November 2023. The Crock of Gold was written primarily by MacGowan in Nenagh, The Republic of Ireland and was recorded at Wessex Studios in London, England. The original sessions were produced by Brian Robertson who was later replaced by Adrian Sherwood and engineer Alan Branch. According to Rob Martin, writing for Spinal Column in 1998, "The Crock of Gold has one really solid song after another in the quasi-Celtic folk rock traditional style. The only negative is that there's not too much experimentation on the album. The only real unusual track is 'B&I Ferry', which has a reggae dub style. However, all the songs on the album are exactly what you'd expect from MacGowan. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cro...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
