Lightweights and Gentlemen

Infobox Album
Name = Lighweights and Gentlemen
Type = Album
Artist = Lau


Released = March 19, 2007
Recorded = Castle Sound, Pencaitland, Scotland, December 2006
Genre = Folk
Label = Reveal Records
Producer = Calum Malcolm
Reviews =
*Allmusic rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wxfqxq8rldje link]
*God Is in the TV rating|4|5 [http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=1603&type=Albums link]
Last album =
This album = "Lightweights and Gentlemen"
(2007)
Next album = "Live"
(2008)

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

Track listing

"All 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

* "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 accordian, accordian through Leslie speaker, mixing
* Aidan O'Rourke - fiddle, mixing
* Stuart Hamilton - engineering
* Calum Malcolm - producer, mixing
* Hugo Morris - photography
* Chris Williams - design and layout