- Christopher: “This tune is a folk-pop tribute to Christopher Reeves, a personal hero, featuring a great slide guitar solo.”
- Heave Away: “A traditional maritime song featuring 4-part harmonies, crunchy electric, and a fiddle/whistle/accordion tune interlude.”
- Pyromania: “We call this tune our ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia” as it features blistering-fast fiddle solos! It is based on a true story from my rural Canadian hometown of a teenager with textbook pyromania.”
- Walks in the Room: “Wistful and simple circle-of-life love song, sparsely accompanied by guitar, dobro, and cello.”
- Boy Brady: “All of our records have featured one or more instrumentals. This number is a medley of several of our favorite Irish and Canadian fiddle tunes, played by fiddle, accordion, banjo, and steel drum.”
- Black-Eyed Suzie: “Our lightning-fast version of a great old bluegrass song.”
- Little Bit of This: “This is a bluesy original, featuring piano, dobro, blues harp, and a parade of not-so-subtle metaphors.”
- Never Tire of the Road: “Our drummer Wolf Loescher, who sings lead on this tune, suggested we cover this song, Andy Irvine’s beautiful tribute to Woody Guthrie. We added an excerpt from Guthrie’s ‘This land Is Your Land.’ Not only does a song by Woody fit well within a song inspired by Woody, but the familiar refrain is a timely reminder that this beautiful land of ours is worth preserving, celebrating, and sharing. ‘You fascists bound to lose,’ indeed!”
- You Are the One: “We recorded a rough version of this tune on our first ‘demo’ CD in the early 2000s, part of a single-night, 10-song, wine-soaked studio session put together by Tim Fitzgerald (“Fitz,” RIP) from the “old” Kieran’s in Minneapolis. It has been one of our favorite tunes to play ever since, and we’ve always wanted to record it properly…or at least soberly.”
- O Scotland: “A melancholy/macabre love-song/Celtic waltz juxtaposed against a Cajun fiddle tune bridge.”
- Smile in There: “This swinging original love song would fit better on A Prairie Home Companion than in an Irish pub! The lyrics include the line ‘10 Mona Lisas,’ which became the record’s title.”
- Botany Bay: “One of our favorite traditional Irish/English songs, featuring a duet with Katie MacMahon, lead soprano for the original River Dance We know Katie, who now lives in Minneapolis, from sharing stages and friends in the Twin Cities’ Irish music community. This song also has as an interlude a three-part canonic arrangement for cello, accordion, and fiddle of the Celtic tune ‘Josephine’s Waltz’ (one of my personal favorite moments on the record).”