Live (Lau album)

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Live
Laulive.jpg
Live album by
Lau
ReleasedApril 28, 2008
Genre Folk
Label Navigator Records
Lau chronology
Lightweights and Gentlemen
(2007)
Live
(2008)
Arc Light
(2009)

Live is a live album by contemporary folk three-piece Lau, released on 28 April 2008 by Navigator Records. [1] [2]

Track listing

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

  1. "Stewarts"
  2. "Banks of Marble"
  3. "Frank and Flo's"
  4. "Butcher Boy"
  5. "Sea"
  6. "The Lang Set"
  7. "Unquiet Grave"
  8. "Hinba"
  9. "Gallowhill"

Personnel

  1. Denselow, Robin (8 May 2008). "Lau, Live". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. Lau - Live , retrieved 6 March 2023

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