Lightweights and Gentlemen is the debut studio album by folk band Lau, released on March 19, 2007.
Lightweights and Gentlemen | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | March 19, 2007 | |||
Recorded | Castle Sound, Pencaitland, Scotland, December 2006 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Label | Reveal Records | |||
Producer | Calum Malcolm | |||
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Track listing
editAll tracks arranged by Kris Drever, Martin Green and Aidan O'Rourke
- "Hinba" - 5:07
- "Hinba" (O'Rourke)
- "Funny Weather" (Green)
- "Butcher Boy" - 4:07 (trad. additional words/music by Drever)
- "The Jigs" - 4:50
- "Mattie and Karine's" (O'Rourke)
- "The Lau Jig" (Drever, Green, O'Rourke)
- "The Creche Jig" (Joe Scurfield)
- "Results" - 4:39
- "Come on wee man!" (Green)
- "Waiting for the Results" (Drever)
- "Unquiet Grave" - 5:13 (music - Drever, words - trad.)
- "Souter Creek" - 6:19
- "The Dog and the Rabbit" (Drever)
- "A Dog Called Bran" (O'Rourke)
- "Souter Creek" (O'Rourke)
- "Kris's" - 6:28
- "Alyth's" (O'Rourke)
- "Muckle Moose on the Muin" (Drever)
- "Freeborn Man" - 3:42 (Ewan MacColl)
- "Moorhens" - 4:15
- "The Moorhens" (Drever)
- "Rick Taylor's" (Green)
- "A Tune for Emily Ball (O'Rourke)
- "Gallowhill" - 6:04 (O'Rourke)
Bonus Track
edit- "Twa Stewarts" (Green) - 7:34
- "Auld Stewart
- "Young Stewart"
- "Last Weeks Efforts"
Personnel
edit- 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