Mumford & Sons may have made folk cool again, but the word 'bluegrass' still hits many like a cold shower. Even if outside of some fiddle there is not much separating bluegrass from folk. The same way Mumford & Sons made people rethink their distaste for folk, Minnesota's Trampled By Turtles may just get you to reconsider your thoughts on bluegrass music with their wonderful sixth studio album. If you find the fiery violin scorching through nimbly picked "Walt Whitman" too twangy at first, consider breaking into the album with the gorgeously melodic "Midnight On The Interstate" or the aptly named acoustic ballad "Beautiful". The loosely flung instrumental "Don't Look Down" shines the spotlight on their fantastic musicianship, evident throughout the album on tracks like the rapidly spewed banjo of "Risk" and fiddle laced craziness of "Sorry". The album's balance of smoldering bluegrass explosions and mellow beauties like "High Water" offers plenty to love regardless of how you feel about the genre going in.
Seek - "Midnight On The Interstate", "High Water", "Walt Whitman"
For fans of - Mumford & Sons
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