It’s a string stampede as Trampled by Turtles (August 19) creates an acoustic sound that “seeps deeply into our pores and permeates our core until their riffs merge with our pulse.” (The Washington Post). Dave Simonett (guitar, vocals), Tim Saxhaug (bass, vocals), Dave Carroll (banjo, vocals), Erik Berry (mandolin) and Ryan Young (fiddle, vocals) – all of whom jammed in rock and punk before unplugging their instruments – have delivered a half dozen albums of unbridled bluegrass mayhem or as Esquire put it, “Supercharged songs with a hooky playfulness and white-knuckle power…”