Old Crow Medicine Show - feat. Molly Tuttle - (August 12, 2021)

Old Crow Medicine Show

Old Crow Medicine Show got their start busking on street corners in 1998, from New York state and up through Canada, winning audiences along the way with their boundless energy and spirit. They eventually found themselves in Boone, North Carolina where they caught the attention of folk icon Doc Watson while playing in front of a pharmacy. He invited the band to play at his festival, MerleFest, and the rest is history.

It's been over twenty years since these humble beginnings. The band has gone on to receive the honor of being inducted as members of the Grand Ole Opry, and have won two Grammy Awards: "Best Folk Album" for Remedy (2014) and "Best Long Form Music Video" for Big Easy Express (2013). Additionally, their classic single, "Wagon Wheel", received the RIAA's Double-Platinum certification in 2019 for selling over 2,000,000 copies while the band's debut album O.C.M.S. has been certified Gold (500,000 copies). The band's latest release is Live At The Ryman (2019) which was released on Columbia via The Orchard. Old Crow Medicine Show's latest endeavor was the Hartland Hootenanny, a variety show hosted on You Tube that featured music, storytelling, special guests, socially distanced square dancing and more.

Molly Tuttle

A virtuosic, award-winning guitarist with a gift for insightful songwriting, Molly Tuttle established herself as a new artist to watch with her boundary-breaking debut album, WHEN YOU'RE READY. What followed were dates at Telluride, Newport Folk Fest, an appearance on CBS Saturday Morning, and an enthusiastic reception both by critics and her fellow musicians.

In March 2020, the Nashville-based artist experienced the devastating tornado that tore through much of East Nashville, followed by the global pandemic. Tuttle, who grew up in California and has toured as a solo artist for years, suddenly found herself - along with the rest of the musician community - sheltering at home. She found solace in revisiting favorite songs from throughout her life in an attempt to "remind myself why I love music." She conceptualized an idea for a record with renowned LA producer Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Andrew Bird) to be recorded over 2,000 miles apart.

Tuttle taught herself how to use ProTools, recorded and engineered all of her parts alone before sending them to Berg in Los Angeles. Berg proceeded to enlist legendary session musicians including drummer, Matt Chamberlain and keys player, Patrick Warren to add instrumentation in their respective home studios. Guest vocalists include Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith and Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor.. "This is how the astronauts do it!" she recalls Berg saying as they sent the files back and forth.

The result is 10 tracks that cross the musical spectrum and the decades, from FKA Twigs to Cat Stevens, from Rancid to Karen Dalton, that will be released as ...but i'd rather be with you on Compass Records.

The songs range from a shimmering version of The National's "Fake Empire," to her version of the Rolling Stones "She's a Rainbow," all united by Tuttle's clear, true voice, astonishing range and incredible musicianship.

"I love so many types of music, and it's exciting to be a part of different musical worlds," she says, "but when I'm creating, I don't think about genres or how it will fit into any particular format - it's just music."

Since moving to Nashville in 2015, the native Californian has been welcomed into the Americana, folk and bluegrass communities, winning "Instrumentalist of the Year" at the 2018 Americana Music Awards. Her debut, the Ryan Hewitt-produced WHEN YOU'RE READY, stretched the boundaries of those genres and introduced her to a wider audience both here and abroad. Tuttle has continued to accumulate accolades, winning Folk Alliance International's honor for Song of the Year for "You Didn't Call My Name" and taking home consecutive trophies for the International Bluegrass Music Association's Guitar Player of the Year (the first woman in the history of the IBMA to win that honor).

By the age of 11, Tuttle was attending jam sessions, and as she matured, her musical tastes soon ranged from Bob Dylan and Gillian Welch to The Smiths and Neko Case. Nowadays Tuttle is influencing and inspiring her own legion of young fans.

"I love seeing any young person trying to play one of my songs or just learning something from me," she says. "One of my goals is to inspire the next generation, especially young girls, to play guitar. I think if girls see a woman doing something, it helps them think, 'I can do that, too.'" But something she's quick to point out is that it all has to come from a lot of hard work and focus.