​Trampled by Turtles (from the EP Always Here

​Trampled by Turtles (from the EP Always Here

​Trampled by Turtles (from the EP Always Here available on Banjodad Records/Thirty Tigers) (by Bryant Liggett)
Trampled by Turtles has always been difficult to categorize. It’s a great angle for gaining listeners; you keep your sound somewhat similar from album to album, dropping in just enough of something different each record to draw in new ears. Traditional Bluegrass fans give way to Jam and New-Grass, then you drop an EP like their latest in Always Here and you pull in the Indie Folk crowd, while incorporating non-traditional Bluegrass instrumentation.
Like a piano, making a subtle appearance in the opener “You Never Let Me Down”, a mid-tempo Folk cut with a viola and cello drifting, at points, into a Classical Music realm. Country Pop crooner LeAnn Rimes makes an appearance on two cuts. “Out of Time” kicks off with a mandolin riff giving way to Rimes’s backing and lead harmonies, a complimenting bonus to the assembly of violin and cello, while she offers her rich voice fills among the soft instrumentation on “On My Way Back Home”.  “Forever” is a weeper dressed up as a hopeful love tune, complete with the admission line in ‘my heart is rusted metal, but I’m pretty sure it’s there’ as Trampled by Turtles drop a front porch picker in closer, “I Want to Love You”. 
It’s an effort void of the meandering and revved up riffs, a focus on a song series of ballads that are mindful and mellow. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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