Trampled By Turtles - Songs From A Ghost Town [2004][EAC,log,cue. FLAC]

Artist: Trampled By Turtles
Release: Songs From A Ghost Town
Discogs: 3679195
Released: 2004
Label: Banjodad Records
Catalog#: BR01
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue / CD
Country: US
Style: Folk, World, & Country, Country, Bluegrass, Folk

Tracklisting:

01. Ain't No Use In Tryin'
02. Wrong Way Street
03. Whiskey
04. My Brother Works For The C.I.A.
05. Drinkin' In The Morning
06. At Your Window
07. The Outskirts
08. When I Come Back Again
09. School Bus Driver


“Songs From a Ghost Town” is a short, sweet, 34 minute bluegrass ride that kind of sounds like the “O Brother Where Art Thou” soundtrack if the artists weren’t trying to make music that sounded like it was written in 1939. There’s nary an electric guitar to be found, the singer sounds like he was ripped straight out of sweet home Ala-bam, and there’s more banjos going around then you would see at a family reunion for the backwoods sister-rammers in “Deliverance.” Only one track “The Outskirts” threatens to enter hippie wank territory, the remainder is comprised of songs that make you feel like you’re walking around the sets for “To Kill a Mockingbird” or “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” It has that downhome southern comfort feel, and is perhaps most astutely represented by breezy jams like the sincere “Whiskey,” and the nostalgic “One Way Street.” The majority of “Songs From a Ghost Town” holds up well, but its greatest redeemable factor is the presence of “At Your Window,” which is arguably one of the top 10 bluegrass songs ever written.