Palomino [Vinyl]

Palomino [Vinyl]

With four self-released albums to their credit and a word-of-mouth reputation that draws legions of diehard fans to their must-see-to-believe live shows, northern roots music hybrid Trampled by Turtles are set to release Palomino, their first album through Thirty Tigers/RED, on April 13th, 2010. With a sound that's a bracing hybrid of classic American songwriting, bluegrass and folk, this is forceful acoustic music from the land of ice and snow - of dark winters, isolation and numbing cold - delivered at breakneck pace with the fervor of religionWhile they never set out to be a ''bluegrass'' band, the band employs the same time-honored tools of the trade - guitar, acoustic bass, banjo, mandolin and fiddle - as their 'grass-fed country cousins. But their soul-deep differences in influences, attitude and attack, from their quicksilver, deadly accurate picking to their lonesome, hauntingly spare ballads, make for a very different musical beast indeed.The result of this pan-genre spot-welding is a sort of North Country & Mid-Western Blue-collar 'grass meets Basement Tapes-era The Band (unplugged!) with a fistful of gunpowder tossed into the wood-burning stove, all of which is permeated by a poignant, seductive desolation that hails from the likes of Townes Van Zandt (a favorite of Simonett's) on up through current artists such as the Avett Brothers, Blitzen Trapper, Bill Callahan and Jason Vernon.