"The Highway Knows," according to Tuttle
The record is out Aug. 15 via Nonesuch Records. Tuttle will also perform the song on CBS Saturday Morning on Saturday at 7 a.m. eastern on CBS and 8 a.m. eastern on the CBS News app.
Tuttle said, "I'm excited for everyone to hear The Highway Knows because it's one of my favorite songs on the new record. I had written the finger-picked guitar part that you hear in the chorus a few years ago, and finally last year Ketch Secor and I dug up the voice memo of that guitar scrap and wrote words to it. This song is all about finding the person you want to journey through life with. The track came to life once Jay Joyce produced the sprawling guitar solo section that I improvised over midway through, which brought it to a higher peak dynamically. I think this song is reflective of a lot of the album stylistically. We wove together different genres and sounds and ended up with something that I'm really proud of."
Secor is the lead singer of Old Crow Medicine Show and Tuttle's boyfriend.
Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson), the fifth full album from Tuttle marks a sonic departure from her recent work. 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.'"
Last month, Tuttle announced "So Long Little Miss Sunshine" with a video for its lead single "That's Gonna Leave A Mark," more of a pop country song than Tuttle's bluegrass direction.
More news for Molly Tuttle
- 11/14/25: Stuart, Tuttle tour together in '26
- 08/21/25: Tuttle releases "Old Me (New Wig)" video
- 08/15/25: Davis, Adcock, Tuttle release new records
- 06/03/25: For Tuttle, it's "So Long Little Miss Sunshine"
- 12/04/23: Tuttle, Lukas Nelson, Hull play MerleFest
- 09/28/23: Strings wins bluegrass' biggest honor
- 06/15/23: Tuttle rides her "Next Rodeo"
- 06/01/23: Tuttle rides her "Next Rodeo"
CD reviews for Molly Tuttle
One of the most celebrated acoustic guitarists working within the Americana field, Molly Tuttle is two-time International Bluegrass Music Association Guitarist of the Year, the first female to be so honored.
"When You're Ready" is Tuttle's first full-fledged solo album, having previously recorded an EP ("Rise"), albums with both the Tuttles and The Goodbye Girls, and a long-ago recording with her father, Jack ("The Old Apple Tree"). ...
EPs are a strange breed. Some are no more than demos for a larger work. Others are a hodgepodge of material recorded here and there and sold to help pay for gas money to the artists' next live gig. And some, like Molly Tuttle's "Rise", are exquisitely constructed messages in a bottle, to sum up the artists' current stage of development.
Tuttle could have easily named this EP, "Let's Get on With It" or "Watch What I Do Now," but "Rise" ...
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