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Lightweights and Gentlemen

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Released
  
March 19, 2007

Artist
  
Lau

Producer
  
Calum Malcolm

Genre
  
Folk music

Lightweights and Gentlemen (2007)
  
Live (2008)

Release date
  
19 March 2007

Label
  
Compass Records

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Recorded
  
Castle Sound, Pencaitland, Scotland, December 2006

Similar
  
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Lightweights and Gentlemen is the debut studio album by folk band Lau, released on March 19, 2007 to critical acclaim.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks arranged by Kris Drever, Martin Green and Aidan O'Rourke

  1. "Hinba" - 5:07
  2. "Hinba" (O'Rourke)
  3. "Funny Weather" (Green)
  4. "Butcher Boy" - 4:07 (trad. additional words/music by Drever)
  5. "The Jigs" - 4:50
  6. "Mattie and Karine's" (O'Rourke)
  7. "The Lau Jig" (Drever, Green, O'Rourke)
  8. "The Creche Jig" (Joe Scurfield)
  9. "Results" - 4:39
  10. "Come on wee man!" (Green)
  11. "Waiting for the Results" (Drever)
  12. "Unquiet Grave" - 5:13 (music - Drever, words - trad.)
  13. "Souter Creek" - 6:19
  14. "The Dog and the Rabbit" (Drever)
  15. "A Dog Called Bran" (O'Rourke)
  16. "Souter Creek" (O'Rourke)
  17. "Kris's" - 6:28
  18. "Alyth's" (O'Rourke)
  19. "Muckle Moose on the Muin" (Drever)
  20. "Freeborn Man" - 3:42 (Ewan MacColl)
  21. "Moorhens" - 4:15
  22. "The Moorhens" (Drever)
  23. "Rick Taylor's" (Green)
  24. "A Tune for Emily Ball (O'Rourke)
  25. "Gallowhill" - 6:04 (O'Rourke)

Bonus Track

  • "Twa Stewarts" (Green) - 7:34
  • "Auld Stewart
  • "Young Stewart"
  • "Last Weeks Efforts"

    • Personnel

  • Kris Drever - guitar, e-bowed dobro guitar, vocals, mixing
  • Martin Green - piano-keyed accordion, accordion through Leslie speaker, mixing
  • Aidan O'Rourke - fiddle, mixing
  • Stuart Hamilton - engineering
  • Calum Malcolm - producer, mixing
  • Hugo Morris - photography
  • Chris Williams - design and layout

    • Songs

    1Hinba5:08
    2Butcher Boy4:08
    3The Jigs4:53

    References

    Lightweights and Gentlemen Wikipedia
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