Eamonn McLain

Musician

Eamonn McLain is a cellist and singer who has been a member of Trampled by Turtles, the string band from Duluth, Minnesota, since 2014, playing cello and singing harmony. He first played on one of the band’s records in 2012, and before that he was a member of Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles.

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He appears on Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles’ album Special Party Time for Everybody (2009). His cello is heard on “Alone” from Trampled by Turtles’ Stars and Satellites (2012) and on four songs of Wild Animals (2014): the title song, “Ghosts,” “Lucy” and “Winners.”

As a full member he plays cello and sings on Life Is Good on the Open Road (BanjoDad, 4 May 2018), which reached No. 1 on Billboard’s bluegrass albums chart; the band released their “Wildflowers” as a single the same year. He is also on Sigourney Fever (2020), Alpenglow (2022) and the band’s collaboration with the singer Alan Sparhawk, Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles (Sub Pop, 2025). Outside the band he played cello on Dead Man Winter’s album Furnace (2017).

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