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| | Great Big Sea, Sea of No Cares |
 | | Great Big Sea are Alan Doyle (vocals, guitar, bouzouki), Bob Hallett (vocals, fiddles, tenor banjo, accordion, bouzouki, mandolin, high and low whistles), Séan McCann (vocals, guitar, bodhran, shakers) and Darrell Power (vocals, bass, bones, mandola). |
 | | Yet it is the new material that has generated their country-pop success, not the ballads of the "Scolding Wife," seemingly a variant of the Child Ballad of the "Farmer's Curst Wife," or "Yarmouth Town," a crowd pleaser in any era with it's tale of easy, casual sex. |
 | | As for their original material, "Sea of No Cares" straddles narrative and the world of feelings as it describes a man falling in love and leaving his friends "getting cynically stoned" at the bar. |
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