Constant Ivy Music
2001
Echo Echo
About This Album
Carbon Leaf's earlier works showed the potential for Echo Echo, and here it is, realized. All the practicing, the effort of traveling to perform, all the work of developing original material comes together here. How they've grown since the first glimmerings on their debut album, Meander! Echo Echo is stellar. This is Carbon Leaf's own distinctive sound, matured, polished, and skillfully presented. The five band members have developed themselves into fine, strong musicians -- talented, assured, and each well versed in his respective specialties. They do themselves proud, here, and listeners will be glad of it. Their opening song catches the ear right away. Don't let its title -- "The Boxer" -- fool you. It's not a cover of the earlier Simon and Garfunkel song, it's a whole new original composition of theirs, and deserving of a lot of airplay in its own right. When they get guitar, mandolin, bass, and percussion going, and then add grace notes of tin whistle and bells, it's outstanding. One listen is all it takes to get people wanting the album. This is a must-have. You can tell they like the traditional tongue twister Mary Mac also, because here it is again, and this is their best version yet, a rollicking race through the heather.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10)

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