Trampled by Turtles - Life is Good on the Open Road

After 15 years of traveling together in close quarters and commanding festival and club stages around the country, the six musicians who make up Trampled by Turtles – Dave Simonett, Tim Saxhaug, Dave Carroll, Erik Berry, Ryan Young, and Eamonn McLain – went nearly a year without all being in the same room. Simonett, the band's lead singer and songwriter, released a critically acclaimed and highly personal album, Furnace, with his band Dead Man Winter. Other members kept busy with their own side projects in the Twin Cities and their hometown of Duluth, MN, allowing new musical ideas to grow. Tracking for their new album, Life is Good on the Open Road, was completed in just six days at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN and mixed the following week. The band produced the album themselves with the help of Pachyderm's house engineer, Nick Tveitbakk, recording everything live to tape. Life is Good on the Open Road is the sound of freedom washing over the group like a sunrise, a new day ri