Rose Baldino (fiddle, vocals and banjo), Lou Baldino (guitar, vocals and bass) and Peter Trezzi (drums and percussion) were still holding firm with Burning Bridget Cleary when These are the Days came out in 2015, but the fourth slot had again changed; Deirdre Lockman, who replaced Genevieve Gillespie, had herself been replaced by Amy Beshara, likewise on fiddle and vocals. (Beshara would be the last person in that space; the band called it quits in 2017.)

Otherwise the group's sound remained solidly awesome. Rose, the band's driving force, continued to push the envelope with intriguing arrangements that still make this and other BBC albums a pleasure to hear. This album also shows them going off in new musical directions, with tunes like "Bill Oja's Waltz" and "Return of Skelly Shelly," neither of which sound like anything we've heard from them before. It's a jazzy touch that might have further defined BBC's sound into something even more unique; I'm curious where they might have gone, with more time.

In any case, as I explained in my review of Totes for Goats, I spent much of St. Patrick's Day 2020 sequestered in my house because of the coronavirus panic, rather than performing multiple Irish music shows in the area. Lacking that, a collection of discs from Burning Bridget Cleary was a pretty good way to spend my day.