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The Stars and Satellites track “Alone,” with its flickering guitar, mandolin and banjo, gorgeous vocal harmonies and nature imagery, feels like a peaceful respite under the open sky before suddenly turning intense, with a burr-edged cello spurring on the other instruments. As Trampled By Turtles singer/guitarist Dave Simonett has suggested, the music breathes in part because it was recorded live during a weeklong stint at a log cabin in the woods outside of Duluth, Minn. The Minnesota quintet, which shares jamgrass tendencies with Railroad Earth, offers rich acoustic quietude on tunes such as “Midnight on the Interstate,” “High Water,” “Widower’s Heart,” “Beautiful” and “The Calm and the Crying Wind.” But these onetime electric players still crank it up, as demonstrated on two-beat stomper “Walt Whitman,” as well as on “Risk” and “Sorry” – neither of which contain board-game references.