June 6, 2025 • 7 mins
Molly Tuttle is great at everything she does: guitarist, singer, songwriter, bandleader...she's the future of Americana music! She and her band stopped by to perform in KBCO Studio C - we can't play the music for you, but the conversation is effervescent!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
How have you been. I'm Brett Sonders. This week it's
a conversation with a brilliant artist, guitarist, singer, songwriter Molly Tuttle.
She has a new album on the way. She performed
for us in kb COEO Studio CE. But here's the thing, Legally,
I can't play any of that music for you here
on the podcast. I know it's unjust, but that's the
(00:23):
way it is. But it was a delightful conversation. Molly
Tuttle on the Brett Sonders Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hi, thanks for having me back at my favorite station
to get to play in here in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's so nice to you to say. There's so much
to talk about. There's a new album coming out called
So Long Little Miss Sunshine. Yes, I want to get
to that. I also want to mention you're playing in
Vale tonight and that's very exciting, a great town to
play and you're gonna be up there at altitude and
I understand you have a couple of new songs.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You want to play it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, we have a new single called That's Gonna Leave
a Market came out about two days ago. And then
we're gonna play an unreleased song for you all.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That's gonna leave a mark. That was co written with
a guy from Better than Ezrau's.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, my friend Kevin Griffin. He is a guy that
I've written with a bunch in Nashville where I live,
and he actually helps put on the Franklin Festival Pilgrimage
Festival in Nashville, and I just got connected with him
actually during the pandemic. We started writing together over FaceTime.
We got a whole batch of these kind of poppy
sounding songs, and I didn't record them on either of
(01:24):
my last albums because they were more bluegrass leaning, but
I was kind of saving them for the right time.
So this is one of the first songs we wrote together.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Molly Tuttle is multi dimensional. You can't pigeonhole Molly Tuttle
or her spectacular band. Those harmonies kill me.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So well, this was actually our first time ever like
playing this song for anyone.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Tell me about your band, Molly.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, it's a brand new band.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So it's kind of like it all came together and
I've kind of been friends with all these beautiful people
for the past couple of years. We all live in
well most of us live in Nashville. Vanessa lives in
Door County, but the rest of us are in Nashville based.
But anyway, we got Vanessa McGowan on the bass, Megan
Jane on the drums, Mary Meyer playing basically everything keys
(02:11):
and fiddle today, and Ellen Angelico playing the electric guitar.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, it's an excellent band you have here. So yeah,
let's talk a little bit about the new album. It's
called So Long, Little Miss Sunshine. It's out on August
the fifteenth. I had a look at the cover of
the album today. Oh cool, and it's delightful because you're
in all these different poses wearing all these different hairstyles.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, so that's been something I've kind of like been
having fun with the last few years.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
When I was three years old, I lost all my
hair due to something called alopecia, ariotits and autoimmune condition
where you basically your body starts attacking your hair and
it falls out. So I decided it would be really
fun for the cover. I knew I wanted to have
a picture of me without a wig on the cover
because I'd never done that before. All my covers album
covers in the past. I'm wearing a wig. But then
(03:00):
I started thinking, well, I don't know, because I do
like wearing wigs and I have fun with like changing
up my hairstyles. So I thought, why not just have
like eight different wigs and then one without in the middle.
You see one without the wig.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Have you ever seen the cover of the album Pure
Pop for Now People by Nick Lowe?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I haven't. You should see it? Okay, the same thing?
Oh cool?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I actually got the album cover idea from the
Let It Be cover by the Beatles. There's like four
squares and then I thought at first I was going
to just wear four wigs, but I was like, why
not wear like eight or nine different wigs.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I can't wait for everybody to see this cover. This
cover is going to be the talk of the world.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
The talk of the one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We need something like this to talk about in America
right now. And again that's August fifteenth. I also want
to mention you're going to be spending a lot of
time in Colorado this summer. First off Veil Tonight, but
also the Rocky Grass Festival in Lions on July the
twenty fifth, and then back here in Denver at the
Ogden Theater Actober twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we're going to be going on tour all over
the place this fall for the Highway Nos Tour. That'll
be kind of the album release tour where we're playing
headline shows all over the country. And I can't wait
to come back to Denver. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I notice that you're basically playing between now and the
end of the year. A couple of weeks off, but
you're mostly playing. You're playing a lot of gigs.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
How do you sing a lot of gigs?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Psych yourself up for that? Because this is essentially the
beginning today, right, this.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Is the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's our first show ever with the new band line up.
It's so exciting. We were talking today, it feels like
we've just been waiting all year, and now it feels
like finally it's Christmas morning. Kind of the moment we've
been psyching ourselves up for. But I've been at home
a lot more than usual this year. I've kind of
had more time off the road, so I'm ready to
get back out there. We'll see how I feel in
(04:43):
December when we've played like eighty shows.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
But I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, we're fortunate to have you here at the beginning
of what will be a monumental too.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Molly Tuttle in her band. Is the band named.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Or it's just Molly Tuttle. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Maybe we'll think of a band named eventually.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do that right now?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We could do it right now. Do you have any ideas?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Uh, Molly Tuttle in this spectacular four?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Okay, spectacular for. I like it. It's like fabulous for
but spectacular well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I was worried I wouldn't say fantastic for because then
there would be lawsuits.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And now yeah, fabulous four.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, Molly Tuttle and the Fabulous four. There you have it,
you here in KBCO studio. Hey, I know you have
to hit the road, you're headed up to Vail, But
I did want to ask you about where you are
with the world of music right now, because when I
listen to what you're doing right now, I hear John Prime,
I hear bluegrass music, I hear pop rock music. What
(05:46):
is guiding you right now? And what do you think
this is all leading to? I know that's a pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, that's an intense question.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You're really asking the heavy hitting questions. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean, I think with this record, it was it
feels like I had like this burst of creativity all
these sounds I'd been kind of hearing for the last
like I've been writing these songs for maybe five or
six years now, and they were basically all these songs
where I didn't at first, I didn't know what kind
of record I was writing, and then I didn't even
really know what they were going to turn into until
we went into the studio, and by the end, I
(06:18):
was like, I don't know what genre this is. There's
is a little bluegrass. We wanted to still have a
through line through my previous work. I've made these bluegrass
records for the past couple of years now, so you
still hear the fiddle and the banjo and the flat
pick guitar, but then there is some kind of pop elements.
There's some country, some Americana.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think I just want to further explore those sounds
and kind of, you know, create my own sound in
a way.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It sounds to me like you are leading the charge
and what's going on. Oh thank you now, you're an
amazing guitarist. I wanted to point out that solo in
that song with spectacular thank you, so everybody don't miss
Molly Tuttle and the fabulous four.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I Think.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I Think I'm Brett Sonders. Thank you for checking in.
We'll see you next time on this The Brett Sonders
Podcast
How have you been. I'm Brett Sonders. This week it's
a conversation with a brilliant artist, guitarist, singer, songwriter Molly Tuttle.
She has a new album on the way. She performed
for us in kb COEO Studio CE. But here's the thing, Legally,
I can't play any of that music for you here
on the podcast. I know it's unjust, but that's the
(00:23):
way it is. But it was a delightful conversation. Molly
Tuttle on the Brett Sonders Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Hi, thanks for having me back at my favorite station
to get to play in here in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's so nice to you to say. There's so much
to talk about. There's a new album coming out called
So Long Little Miss Sunshine. Yes, I want to get
to that. I also want to mention you're playing in
Vale tonight and that's very exciting, a great town to
play and you're gonna be up there at altitude and
I understand you have a couple of new songs.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
You want to play it.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, we have a new single called That's Gonna Leave
a Market came out about two days ago. And then
we're gonna play an unreleased song for you all.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
That's gonna leave a mark. That was co written with
a guy from Better than Ezrau's.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, my friend Kevin Griffin. He is a guy that
I've written with a bunch in Nashville where I live,
and he actually helps put on the Franklin Festival Pilgrimage
Festival in Nashville, and I just got connected with him
actually during the pandemic. We started writing together over FaceTime.
We got a whole batch of these kind of poppy
sounding songs, and I didn't record them on either of
(01:24):
my last albums because they were more bluegrass leaning, but
I was kind of saving them for the right time.
So this is one of the first songs we wrote together.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Molly Tuttle is multi dimensional. You can't pigeonhole Molly Tuttle
or her spectacular band. Those harmonies kill me.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
So well, this was actually our first time ever like
playing this song for anyone.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Tell me about your band, Molly.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, it's a brand new band.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So it's kind of like it all came together and
I've kind of been friends with all these beautiful people
for the past couple of years. We all live in
well most of us live in Nashville. Vanessa lives in
Door County, but the rest of us are in Nashville based.
But anyway, we got Vanessa McGowan on the bass, Megan
Jane on the drums, Mary Meyer playing basically everything keys
(02:11):
and fiddle today, and Ellen Angelico playing the electric guitar.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, it's an excellent band you have here. So yeah,
let's talk a little bit about the new album. It's
called So Long, Little Miss Sunshine. It's out on August
the fifteenth. I had a look at the cover of
the album today. Oh cool, and it's delightful because you're
in all these different poses wearing all these different hairstyles.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yes, so that's been something I've kind of like been
having fun with the last few years.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
When I was three years old, I lost all my
hair due to something called alopecia, ariotits and autoimmune condition
where you basically your body starts attacking your hair and
it falls out. So I decided it would be really
fun for the cover. I knew I wanted to have
a picture of me without a wig on the cover
because I'd never done that before. All my covers album
covers in the past. I'm wearing a wig. But then
(03:00):
I started thinking, well, I don't know, because I do
like wearing wigs and I have fun with like changing
up my hairstyles. So I thought, why not just have
like eight different wigs and then one without in the middle.
You see one without the wig.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Have you ever seen the cover of the album Pure
Pop for Now People by Nick Lowe?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I haven't. You should see it? Okay, the same thing?
Oh cool?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I actually got the album cover idea from the
Let It Be cover by the Beatles. There's like four
squares and then I thought at first I was going
to just wear four wigs, but I was like, why
not wear like eight or nine different wigs.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I can't wait for everybody to see this cover. This
cover is going to be the talk of the world.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
The talk of the one.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
We need something like this to talk about in America
right now. And again that's August fifteenth. I also want
to mention you're going to be spending a lot of
time in Colorado this summer. First off Veil Tonight, but
also the Rocky Grass Festival in Lions on July the
twenty fifth, and then back here in Denver at the
Ogden Theater Actober twenty fifth.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, we're going to be going on tour all over
the place this fall for the Highway Nos Tour. That'll
be kind of the album release tour where we're playing
headline shows all over the country. And I can't wait
to come back to Denver. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I notice that you're basically playing between now and the
end of the year. A couple of weeks off, but
you're mostly playing. You're playing a lot of gigs.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
How do you sing a lot of gigs?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Psych yourself up for that? Because this is essentially the
beginning today, right, this.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Is the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
It's our first show ever with the new band line up.
It's so exciting. We were talking today, it feels like
we've just been waiting all year, and now it feels
like finally it's Christmas morning. Kind of the moment we've
been psyching ourselves up for. But I've been at home
a lot more than usual this year. I've kind of
had more time off the road, so I'm ready to
get back out there. We'll see how I feel in
(04:43):
December when we've played like eighty shows.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
But I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, we're fortunate to have you here at the beginning
of what will be a monumental too.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Molly Tuttle in her band. Is the band named.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Or it's just Molly Tuttle. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Maybe we'll think of a band named eventually.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do that right now?
Speaker 3 (05:04):
We could do it right now. Do you have any ideas?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Uh, Molly Tuttle in this spectacular four?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Okay, spectacular for. I like it. It's like fabulous for
but spectacular well.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I was worried I wouldn't say fantastic for because then
there would be lawsuits.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And now yeah, fabulous four.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, Molly Tuttle and the Fabulous four. There you have it,
you here in KBCO studio. Hey, I know you have
to hit the road, you're headed up to Vail, But
I did want to ask you about where you are
with the world of music right now, because when I
listen to what you're doing right now, I hear John Prime,
I hear bluegrass music, I hear pop rock music. What
(05:46):
is guiding you right now? And what do you think
this is all leading to? I know that's a pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Well, that's an intense question.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
You're really asking the heavy hitting questions. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I mean, I think with this record, it was it
feels like I had like this burst of creativity all
these sounds I'd been kind of hearing for the last
like I've been writing these songs for maybe five or
six years now, and they were basically all these songs
where I didn't at first, I didn't know what kind
of record I was writing, and then I didn't even
really know what they were going to turn into until
we went into the studio, and by the end, I
(06:18):
was like, I don't know what genre this is. There's
is a little bluegrass. We wanted to still have a
through line through my previous work. I've made these bluegrass
records for the past couple of years now, so you
still hear the fiddle and the banjo and the flat
pick guitar, but then there is some kind of pop elements.
There's some country, some Americana.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think I just want to further explore those sounds
and kind of, you know, create my own sound in
a way.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
It sounds to me like you are leading the charge
and what's going on. Oh thank you now, you're an
amazing guitarist. I wanted to point out that solo in
that song with spectacular thank you, so everybody don't miss
Molly Tuttle and the fabulous four.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I Think.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I Think I'm Brett Sonders. Thank you for checking in.
We'll see you next time on this The Brett Sonders
Podcast
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