Plight o’ Sheep is the second full release from The Langan Band, almost exactly 10 years after the critically acclaimed release of their first full album Bones Of Contention. Recorded in Black Bay Studio in the Outer Hebrides, this album is a beautifully crafted distillation of the preceding ten years of huge life events and voracious performing around the world.
Songs like Leg Of Lamb and I’m Alive absolutely retain the infectious energy of the previous album, but numbers such as Sweetness and the Single One Whole Year demonstrate a deeper maturity and empathy in the music that can only come from hard-lived experiences and years of creating music together.
A huge part of the band’s success and appeal over the years has been the sheer density and depth of sound that these three people can create on a stage by themselves; and whilst, with Producer Pete Fletcher, they have availed themselves of all the joys and toys that Black Bay Studio had to offer, the finished album remains very true to the pure live show that the trio perform.
The title Plight o’ Sheep first came into the frame when Alastair and John were walking around the Isle of Bernera (upon which sits Black Bay Studio) on a viciously stormy morning, and remarked upon seeing a particularly wind-blown ram struggling to stay upright in the gale, what a truly miserable existence being a Hebridean sheep must be.

John Langan - Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Accordion
Alastair Caplin - Violin, Viola, Accordion, Vocals
Dave Tunstall - Double Bass, Mandolin, Small Pipes, Vocals


Recorded at Black Bay Studio on Great Bernera, Isle of Lewis,
by Pete Fletcher and Cal Roden.
Produced by Pete Fletcher & The Langan Band, Mastered by Pete Fletcher
Cover image and text by Robert Nicol, Design by Dave Tunstall,
and the band were gratefully fed by Stevie Matson

Executive Producers Benjamin Read & George Wilkins
Funded by Creative Scotland

Plight o' Sheep

Leg Of Lamb

One Whole Year

The debut album from The Langan Band, born of blood, sweat, tears, buckfast, and haggis pizza.

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