Guitarist, songwriter and singer Molly Tuttle has become one of bluegrass music’s most respected artists, building her reputation over the years through performances with family band The Tuttles With AJ Lee, solo projects, and her work with Golden Highway (a nod to Tuttle’s California roots). She was also the first woman to win the IBMA’s guitar player of the year award.

Tuttle credits the success of her Grammy-winning albums with Golden Highway—Crooked Tree (2022) and City of Gold (2023)—with helping her “gain that confidence and help me take a risk with my sound,” she tells Billboard.

Her new solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, out Friday (Aug. 15) on Nonesuch, is the result of that risk-taking — and marks a radical stylistic evolution from her earlier bluegrass-oriented work. Th

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