Lightweights and Gentlemen

2007 studio album by Lau

Lightweights and Gentlemen

Studio album by

Lau

Released| March 19, 2007
Recorded| Castle Sound, Pencaitland, Scotland, December 2006
Genre| Folk
Label| Reveal Records
Producer| Calum Malcolm
Lau chronology
|  | Lightweights and Gentlemen
(2007)  | Live
(2008)

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

## Track listing

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

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

### Bonus Track

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

## Personnel

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* 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

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