{"id":16000,"date":"2018-05-28T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T18:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2018-05-31T10:03:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T17:03:40","slug":"new-music-revue-trampled-by-turtles-are-at-their-very-best-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/05\/28\/new-music-revue-trampled-by-turtles-are-at-their-very-best-on-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Trampled by Turtles at their very best on new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16001 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/561d8e-20180216-trampled-by-turtles-life-is-good-on-the-open-road.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Trampled by Turtles<br \/>\n<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN\">Life Is Good On the Open Road<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN\">(Banjodad Records)<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">4.5\/5<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Fifteen years ago, Trampled by Turtles emerged from Duluth, Minnesota; by combining elements of bluegrass, rock, folk, and punk, they turned a new generation onto string bands. Now, after a brief hiatus, Trampled By Turtles are back with their ninth LP, <i>Life Is Good On the Open Road<\/i>. <i><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">They jump in with the lead single, \u201cKelly\u2019s Bar,\u201d and a kitchen party breaks out before they reach the first chorus. The fiddle-led assault is nothing short of frantic. While there are a number of great tracks, \u201cBlood in the Water\u201d stands out above the rest. With an angry tone not heard on previous Trampled by Turtles albums, the song sounds like a punk band playing a bluegrass cover of a late \u201980s Suicidal Tendencies track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\"><span lang=\"EN\">Every one of this band\u2019s albums has some softer tracks that get lost in the energy that we call Trampled by Turtles, and <i>Life Is Good On the Open Road <\/i>is no exception. Still, all the songs blend together quite well, and it has the ebbs and flows of a masterfully engineered album. The band has stayed true to their sound over the years, and <i>Life Is Good On the Open Road\u00a0<\/i>is Trampled by Turtles at their very best.<i><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trampled by Turtles Life Is Good On the Open Road (Banjodad Records) 4.5\/5 Fifteen years ago, Trampled by Turtles emerged from Duluth, Minnesota; by combining elements of bluegrass, rock, folk, and punk, they turned a new generation onto string bands. Now, after a brief hiatus, Trampled By Turtles are back with their ninth LP, Life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16003,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16000\/revisions\/16003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}