I'm not a musician, but I can comment on the images that each track brings to mind...

1 - this is a riding-in-a-train-or-coach song.  Something about the guitar rhythm makes me think of rolling over miles of dusty ground.  Rolling toward an uncertain but decisive confrontation.  There's "danger" being spoken of in the fiddle part.  The ending is a mystery - not clear on what will happen next...
 
2 - Car trip music.  Going toward a new tomorrow.  Like college kids heading out to start a new life or make a documentary, or something.  The beginning of a journey, a little sad and wise, not just high hopes, but with a definite sense of future and possibility.
 
3 - Sad, regretful, resigned.  Possibly a song about an old man dying.  If this had a vehicle associated with it, it would probably be a ship.  There's something of ocean waves in the guitar part.
 
4 - All I can picture is country dancers in a movie set in rural England in the 1800s or something.  I think there would be some intrigue as the camera swirled around the dancers and showed one person kind of stalking another around the dance... and then the stalkee sees the stalker... and there's clandestine pursuit and escape...
 
5 - Sorrow, but beautiful, luxurious sorrow, along the lines of Ashokan Farewell.  God bless the other musicians, but for gosh sakes, sometimes everybody had better just stand back and let the fiddle rule the world!  (Whcih is does anyway - there's no sound in this world as beautiful as violin music.)
 
6 - I absolutely love this track.  And I don't have the music vocab to explain the part I like.  But that middleish part, where the notes go up-down-up, before the tune starts flowing again - I love that.  (Ah, musical illiteracy... it's a gift.)
 
7 - Sort of a happy peasant thing going on here.  Much with the dancing outdoors in wooded areas.
 
8 - This has a story of intrigue to it at the start.  It gets a little more casual near the middle.  Then there's a kind of feeling of resolution, like the mystery has been resolved, and it has ended on a happy note, with good news for the good guys.  The emotions seem to go everywhere in this piece, ending with celebration.
 
9 - This sounds nautical.  Like walking along the docks in some movie set in the 1700s.  Cheerful, adventuresome.  Just says what it wants to say, then wraps up quickly.
 
10 - The guitar is complex and interesting here.  It makes me think somewhat of gypsy music, though calmer.  It's hard to tell just what I'm listening to - one instrument? a blend of tracks?  I don't have the ear for it to know, but it sounds very layered and "thick."  (Can music be thick?)  
 
11 - An end of the day song.  Things are settling down, maybe the peasants are coming in from the wheat fields or something, and everyone is in a lazy sort of good mood.
 
12 - Wow, this is impressive, how fast the notes go.  I think this is a song about persevering and doing your thing no matter what anyone else says.
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I am woefully short of appropriately knowledgeable-sounding music jargon. But I like this CD a lot :) Instrumental stuff, for me, tends to either fade into the background, or poke naggingly at my attention - this does neither; it's balanced and pleasant and very very listenable (if that's a word.) One thing I like a lot is that it's very like your live performances - it's skillful without being show-offy.
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