Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway at Belleville Roots
*** Molly Tuttle named International Bluegrass Music Association 2022 Female Vocalist of the Year***
https://bluegrasstoday.com/2022-ibma-bluegrass-awards/
One of the most compelling new voices in the roots music world, Molly Tuttle is a virtuosic multi-
instrumentalist and singer/songwriter. Golden Highway—her brand-new band of bluegrass virtuosos -- features mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means.
An award-winning guitarist and songwriter, native Californian Molly Tuttle continues to push her songwriting in new directions and transcend musical boundaries. Since moving to Nashville in 2015, she has worked with many of her peers and heroes in the Americana, folk, and bluegrass communities, winning Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards. Tuttle’s 2019 debut album, When You're Ready, received critical acclaim, with NPR Music praising its “handsomely crafted melodies that gently insinuate themselves into the memory,” and the Wall Street Journal lauding Tuttle’s “genre-boundary-crossing comfort and emotional preparedness,” calling the record an “invigorating, mature and attention-grabbing first album.”
Tuttle’s accolades also include Folk Alliance International’s honor for Song of the Year for “You Didn’t Call My Name,” from her 2017 Rise EP, and consecutive trophies for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year; she was the first woman in the history of the IBMA to win that honor.
During the pandemic, Tuttle recorded a covers album, ...but i'd rather be with you, which was released in August 2020. The record, which features guest vocals from Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith and Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor, includes songs by musicians ranging from FKA Twigs to Cat Stevens, Rancid to Karen Dalton, and The National to The Rolling Stones. The New Yorker's Jay Ruttenberg, in praising her rendition of The Stones', "She's a Rainbow," says: "In Tuttle's reading, the song uses a bluegrass spirit to look to the past--and a feminist allegiance to peek at the future.
“Between her expressive, crystalline voice and astounding flat picking guitar skills, Tuttle has made
“The person that I’m interested in is what Molly Tuttle is doing. I think she has a tremendous sensitivity
for the music and there’s something about her spirit, it has a gentleness and strength in it. I like her vibe
and her musicality. I performed with her and got to hear her perform at the IBMAs in Raleigh just last
month. She did my favorite thing of the night. She did a version of “Rain and Snow” that was really
lovely.”— GILLIAN WELCH
“[Molly Tuttle] sings with the gentle authority of Gillian Welch, yet plays astoundingly fleet flat-picking
guitar like Chet Atkins on superdrive.”— AMERICAN SONGWRITER MAGAZINE
“Her songs, singing and solos, much like her demeanor, tend to have an inward-looking elegance to
them; they’re the outward expressions of a searching mind and a longtime dedication to cultivating her
craft”— JEWLY HIGHT, NPR
“Among the most brilliant guitarists in this new generation is Molly Tuttle, who seems as effortlessly
conversant when flatpicking as when playing in the clawhammer style, and who is equally gifted as a
singer-songwriter.”— PREMIER GUITAR
More Molly Tuttle at: www.mollytuttlemusic.com
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