So Long Little Miss Sunshine Molly Tuttle

Following back-to-back Grammy-winning albums with her band Golden Highway, along with a Best New Artist nomination, Molly Tuttle releases her new solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, this summer.
Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson), the fifth full album from the singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist marks a sonic departure from her recent work and features twelve new songs - eleven originals, including the album’s first single ‘That’s Gonna Leave a Mark’, and one cover, of Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s ‘I Love It’.

Tuttle’s career has charted a course between honouring bluegrass and stretching its boundaries.
One of the most decorated female guitarist alive, she was the first woman to win the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Award’s Guitar Player of the Year in 2017, at age twenty-four, and won again the following year, with nominations nearly every year since; she has also won Americana Music Association’s Instrumentalist of the Year award.

On her new album - a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad - Tuttle goes to a whole new place.
Her virtuoso guitar work takes centre stage on this album more than ever, and for the first time, she introduces her banjo playing into two of her recordings.
“I like to be a bit of a chameleon with my music. Keep people guessing and keep it full of surprises,” she says.

So Long Little Miss Sunshine was recorded with drummer/percussionists Jay Bellerose and Fred Eltringham, bassist Byron House, and Joyce on multiple instruments.
Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show) also plays banjo, fiddle, and harmonica, as well as singing harmony; much of the LP was co-written with Secor, who is also Tuttle’s partner.
“We spend so much time together, we live together, and anytime I have a song idea, or he has one, it’s just so easy to transition from whatever we’re doing into writing a song.”

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.
Tuttle has been bald since she was three years old due to the autoimmune condition alopecia areata; she acts as a spokesperson for the National Alopecia Areata Foundation