Molly Tuttle

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Molly Tuttle among a variety of wigs.

Molly Tuttle

media release: On the heels of two Grammy-winning albums in succession, with her band Golden Highway—2022’s Crooked Tree and 2023’s City of Gold—plus a nomination for Best New Artist, Molly Tuttle returns with a solo album that’s her most dazzling to date: So Long Little Miss Sunshine. Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce, the fifth full album from the California-born, Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist features twelve new songs—eleven originals and one highly unexpected cover of Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s “I Love It.” Tuttle’s career, which began at age fifteen, has charted a course between honoring bluegrass and stretching its boundaries. On this album—a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad—she goes to a whole new place.

Tuttle also conceived the artwork for So Long Little Miss Sunshine, which features multiple Mollys, each wearing a different wig except for one with nothing on her head at all. She acts as a spokesperson for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation. One album track, “Old Me (New Wig),” is “about leaving all these things behind that don’t serve you anymore,” she says. “Parts of yourself that really aren’t in your best interest, like low self-esteem, anxieties, and not feeling confident. Learning to own these different aspects of my personality but not letting them control me is another theme of the record that inspired the album title and the cover art... I like singing this song because there are days when I still have to tell myself to leave that stuff behind.”

Looking back on her own career, Tuttle admits that she also has pursued what interests her: “It has never been a cookie-cutter thing where I’m just going down a straight road. I always had this crooked path.”

“Tuttle’s guitar playing, with its sly sense of rhythm and incisive, articulate lines, is a central protagonist … The poised clarity of her singing suggests that she’s taken in everything around her.” –NPR

“Dazzling. Everything sounds alive, vital and perfectly in focus.” –Mojo

“Molly Tuttle’s guitar picking will blow your mind … happily meandering … into the realms of country, folk, and pop.” –Rolling Stone

“A virtuoso guitarist with a galvanising charm that electrifies her audience... with flair and flavour that is entirely her own, if you could bottle it, you’d buy two.” –Guardian

“I’ve never heard Molly Tuttle strike a single note that wasn’t completely self-assured … Molly plays with a confidence and command that only the very best guitarists ever achieve.” –David Rawlings, New York Times