At first I thought it might be unfair to describe Carbon Leaf by comparing them to another band (”kind of like Great Big Sea, minus the Newfie sea chanties, plus Appalachian folk, and with more obtuse lyrics”). Then I realized they’d both done a mad, uptempo rendition of the traditional Mary Mac, so why the hell not.

Their downloads page has literally dozens of free tracks. I’m most partial to The Boxer, American Tale and Aurora, but there are a lot of good songs there, so give ‘em a whirl.