For Tuttle, it's "So Long Little Miss Sunshine"

Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce, the fifth full album from Tuthill marks a sonic departure from her recent work and features 12 new songs — 11 originals and one cover, of Icona Pop and Charli xcx's "I Love It." The first single, "That's Gonna Leave a Mark," which she co-wrote with Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra), is also out today.

The album is a hybrid of country, pop, rock and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad. Known for her guitar work, for the first time, Tuttle 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 said.

Tuttle and her new live band will set out on a run of summer tour dates in the U.S. on June 6 in Vail, Col. This fall, they'll kick off "The Highway Knows" tour on Sept. 10 with a show in Chicago. The dates include both festival and headline shows and conclude on Dec. 13 at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Along the way, she stops at Brooklyn Steel in New York, The Fonda in Los Angeles and Thalia Hall in Chicago. Tickets for most of the newly announced dates are on-sale Friday.

Tuttle said, "I've been wanting to make this record for such a long time. Part of me was scared to do such a big departure, and that went into the album title."

Eventually she decided, "'You know what? I'm just not going to care what people think. I'm going to do what I want.'"

"I wrote 'That's Gonna Leave a Mark' with my friend Kevin Griffin. He has such a brilliant pop sensibility. We reworked it a little bit last year. It's fun, sort of sassy, and that guitar part is one of my favorites that I play on the record."

Tuttle was the first woman to win the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Award's Guitar Player of the Year in 2017 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.

"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 the cover, which features multiple Tuttles, 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.

The track list is:
1. Everything Burns
2. The Highway Knows
3. Golden State Of Mind
4. Rosalee
5. I Love It
6. That's Gonna Leave A Mark
7. Easy
8. Summer Of Love
9. Old Me (New Wig)
10. Oasis
11. No Regrets
12. Story Of My So-Called Life

Summer tour dates are:
June 6 – Mountains of Music Concert Series – Vail, CO
June 14 – All Good Now Festival @ Merriweather Pavilion – Columbia, MD
June 22 – Mountain Jam Festival – Highmount, NY
June 24 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
June 26 – ROMP – Owensboro, KY
June 27 – Blue Ox Music Festival – Eau Claire, WI
June 28 – Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI
July 3 – High Sierra – Quincy, CA
July 5 – Grassfire Festival – Garrettsville, OH
July 19 – Caramoor American Roots Music Festival – Katonah, NY
July 25 – RockyGrass Festival weekend Golden Highway – Lyons, CO
Aug. 1 -2 – Wildlands Festival – Big Sky, MT
Aug. 8 – The Amphitheater at Canyons Village – Park City, UT
Aug. 9 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID
Aug. 10 – Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival – Alta, WY
Aug. 14 – The Burl - Outdoors – Lexington, KY
Aug. 15 – State Theatre – State College, PA
Aug. 16 – Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots – Manchester Center, VT
Aug. 17 – Point of the Bluff Vineyards – Hammondsport, NY
Aug. 21 – The Ramkat – Winston-Salem, NC
Aug. 22 – Georgia Mountain Fair – Hiawassee, GA
Aug. 23 – Marcus King Family Reunion – North Charleston, SC
Aug. 30 – Rhythm & Roots Festival – Charlestown, RI The Highway Knows Tour 2025 tour dates are:
Sept. 10 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
Sept. 11 – Masonic Cathedral Theatre – Detroit, MI
Sept. 12 – Globe Iron – Cleveland, OH
Sept. 13 – Carnegie Homestead Music Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
Sept. 15 – Opera House – Toronto, ON
Sept. 17 – Royale – Boston, MA
Sept. 18 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY
Sept. 20 – XPoNential Music Festival – Philadelphia, PA
Sept. 23 – The Beacon Theatre – Hopewell, VA
Sept. 25 – Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre – Wilmington, NC
Sept. 26 – Cat's Cradle – Carrboro, NC
Sept. 27 – Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
Sept. 28 – Tennessee Theatre – Knoxville, TN
Sept. 30 – Victory North – Savannah, GA
Oct. 1 – The Plaza Live – Orlando, FL
Oct. 2 – Capitol Theatre – Clearwater, FL
Oct. 3 – Moon Crush (Avett Brothers) – Miramar Beach, FL
Oct. 4 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
Oct. 10 – The Hawthorn – St. Louis, MO
Oct. 11 – Liberty Hall – Lawrence, KS
Oct. 12 – Slowdown – Omaha, NE
Oct. 14 – The ELM – Bozeman, MT
Oct. 16 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA
Oct. 17 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
Oct. 18 – Holly Theater – Medford, OR
Oct. 19 – Cascade Theatre – Redding, CA
Oct. 25 – Ogden Theater – Denver, CO
Nov. 2 – Suwannee Hulaween – Live Oak, FL
Nov. 12 – Poplar Hall – Appleton, WI
Nov. 13 – Grand Theater – Wausau, WI
Nov. 14 – Varsity Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
Nov. 15 – Stoughton Opera House – Stoughton, WI
Nov. 16 – Englert Theater – Iowa City, IA
Nov. 18 – Castle Theatre – Bloomington, IL
Nov. 20 – Vogue – Indianapolis, IN
Nov. 21 – Memorial Hall – Cincinati, OH
Nov. 22 – Athenaeum Theatre – Columbus, OH
Nov. 23 – TBD – Roanoke, VA
Dec. 3 – Atone's – Austin, TX
Dec. 5 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
Dec. 6 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
Dec. 7 – Arlington Theater – Santa Barbara, CA
Dec. 10 – Rialto Theatre – Tucson, AZ
Dec. 11 – The Fonda – Los Angeles, CA
Dec. 12 – Tower Theatre – Fresno, CA
Dec. 13 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA