Compass Records proudly announce the release of award-winning
guitar virtuoso Molly Tuttle’s debut album
REMAINING UK DATES
Fri 19 April 2019 – Live
Room, Saltaire (Caroline Social Club, Caroline Street,
Saltaire Shipley BD18 3JZ) £14 Event
On the Official UK Country Album Top 20 (Week Ending 18 April 2019) WHEN YOU'RE READY (Compass) made a
debut at No.6 and bowed at No.4 on the Official Americana Albums
Chart Top 40 (Week Ending 18 April 2019).
On Billboard Country
Sales (pure sales; old methodology) it made a debut at No.16 selling 1,800 copies.
Release Date: 5 April 2019
Label: Compass Records
Debut #4 UK Country iTunes Album Chart (#50 UK iTunes all-genres)
Debut #6 US
Country iTunes Album Chart (#43 US iTunes all-genres)
11 Tracks
Time: 40:02
Genre: Americana
1. Million Miles 2. Take The Journey 3. Make My Mind Up 4.
When You're Ready
5. The High Road 6. Don't Let Go 7. Light Came In (Power Went
Out)
8. Messed With My Mind 9. Sleepwalking 10. Sit Back and Watch
It Roll 11. Clue
Watch “Take The Journey”:
REVIEWS
Most of these 11 new songs begin with Tutlle's solo
finger-picking guitar, and it's lovely. So's her voice - Mojo (Rating: 80/100)
Molly Tuttle was right to take time before releasing her
first complete CD. The production, playing and songwriting coalesce into a
striking statement that shows an already developed artist well on her way to
the next level of her still nascent career. - American Songwriter (Rating:
80/100) /
When You're Ready is a sharply confident debut, as Tuttle
proves an expressive vocalist and an idiosyncratic songwriter. - Uncut (Rating:
7/10)
Left to her own devices, Tuttle has emerged as a deft
songwriter with an open heart, a keen ear for melody, and a flair for pairing
dusty folk with Americana-kissed country-pop. - Allmusic (Rating: 3.1/2 STARS)
What drew people to Tuttle's music to begin with was that
delightfully dissonant combination of sweet singing and monster-shredder guitar
playing, and that's just not what this album delivers. - Exclaim (Rating: 6/10)
“Tuttle doesn't need the window dressing. Some of her
material is a little thin, but as a songwriter she has a winning way with a
melody. And the final cut, "Clue," shows her capabilities as a
performer. The song highlights Tuttle's voice, with long vowels that soar and
bluesy twists that suggest her next record will be better” – Associated Press
WHEN YOU’RE READY, produced by Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers) showcases her astonishing range and versatility and shows that she is more than simply an Americana artist.
WHEN YOU’RE READY, produced by Ryan Hewitt (The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers) showcases her astonishing range and versatility and shows that she is more than simply an Americana artist.
Between her expressive, crystalline voice and astounding
flatpicking guitar skills, Tuttle has made history…” Rolling
Stone Country
An insightful, gifted songwriter who was crowned “Instrumentalist of the Year” at the 2018 Americana Music Awards on the
strength of her EP RISE, Tuttle has
broken boundaries and garnered the respect of her peers, winning fans for her
incredible flat-picking guitar technique and confessional songwriting. Graced
with a clear, true voice and a keen melodic sense, the 25-year-old seems poised
for a long and exciting career. When You’re Ready, produced by Ryan Hewitt (The
Avett Brothers, The Lumineers) showcases her astonishing range and versatility
and shows that she is more than simply an Americana artist.
Since moving to Nashville in 2015, the native Californian has
been welcomed into folk music, bluegrass, Americana, and traditional country
communities – even as When You’re Ready stretches the boundaries of those
genres. Over the past year, Molly 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 her second trophy 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).
WHEN YOU’RE READY is infused with an intoxicating wash of
drums and electric guitar while still keeping Tuttle front and center. “I
wanted to keep the focus on the songs,” she says, “but also make an interesting
guitar record.”
“Come for Molly Tuttle’s impressive acoustic guitar skills
and stay for her traveler’s anthem.” — REFINERY29
The album opens with “Million Miles,” a song that her
songwriting collaborator Steve Poltz brought to her, mentioning that he and
Jewel started it in the ‘90s and didn’t complete it. With their blessing, she
finished the song and enlisted Sierra
Hull to play mandolin and Jason
Isbell to sing background vocals. The wistful track sets the tone for an
album that offers subtle moments of reflection as well as dazzling
musicianship.
Tuttle wrote or co-wrote all 11 tracks since moving to
Nashville, giving the project a unified feeling. “A lot of the songs are more
personal than I’ve written before, and many of them are conversational, like
one person talking to another,” she says. But, when it comes to the messages of
the songs, each one stands apart. “Take the Journey” provides
encouragement, even as “The High Road” finds two individuals going their own
way. Later, the subdued “Don’t Let Go” concludes with a
spaced-out slow groove, while “Lights Came On (Power Went Out)”
amplifies the album’s youthful energy. “Sleepwalking,” a gentle love song, may
be the album’s most impassioned and emotionally intense moment.
“Her songs, singing and solos, much like her demeanor, tend
to have an inward- looking elegance to them; they’re the outward expressions of
a searching mind and a longtime dedication to cultivating her craft.” —Jewly
Hight, NPR
“[Molly Tuttle] sings with the gentle authority of Gillian
Welch, yet plays astoundingly fleet flat-picking guitar like Chet Atkins on
superdrive.” —Paul Zollo, American
Songwriter Magazine
“Molly Tuttle, blew away the unsuspecting crowd with her
rapid fire bluegrass guitar work that would put even the most talented
shredders to shame. It was a marvel to see such incredible technical skill
combined with a sweet voice and fun, barn-storming songwriting.” —Write to the Beat
“Among the most brilliant guitarists in this new generation
is Molly Tuttle, who seems as effortlessly conversant when flatpicking as when
playing in the clawhammer style, and who is equally gifted as a
singer-songwriter.” —Premier Guitar
“…a sort of high-wattage Alison Krauss-Taylor Swift hybrid —
Tuttle effortlessly delivers a mélange of styles to accompany her powerful
guitar licks throughout.” — Rolling
Stone Country
“You will not believe the voice and talent this lady
possesses”! – Alex Krupa’s Country Show
“I think she's got a real potential her voice a girlish
innocence in between bluegraas and folk….She’s doing great things, more on the
country spectrum than last album” – Marie
Crichton BBC Shropshire
Embed: WE MET REBA: Celebrating being part of the
#AmericanCurrents2018 exhibit at the Country
Music Hall of Fame and Museum (March 6).
Hello from London! I had a great time hanging
out with Whispering Bob
Harris on his BBC Radio 2 show this afternoon!
Thankful for my friends at @TheBGSituation! Check out this cover story on ‘When You’re Ready’: https://t.co/znXsYi4eUR— Molly Tuttle (@molly_tuttle) 10 April 2019
Molly Tuttle (@molly_tuttle) is 'ready.' We talk with the acclaimed guitarist/songwriter about diving in on her debut LP, 'When You're Ready': https://t.co/rc9tyV8JAQ pic.twitter.com/ZiOJU00aMF— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) 9 April 2019
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ABOUT: Tuttle
grew up in California in a musical family, performing at festivals with her
father and two brothers. As a young girl, she took violin lessons but
eventually grew more interested in playing guitar. Fortunately, her father Jack
Tuttle is a noted instructor in the Bay Area. “My dad brought me home a little
guitar and he would sit with me whenever I wanted to play it and show me
something,” she recalls. “He was really encouraging, and I think that’s what
made me stick with the guitar. I liked having a fun thing to do with my dad and
practicing didn’t feel like a chore.”
By the age of 11, Tuttle was attending bluegrass jams and
decided that she wanted to do more singing. She took voice lessons from one of
her neighbors, a classical vocal coach who taught proper technique without
sacrificing phrasing. As a young woman interested in bluegrass, Tuttle admired
bold songwriters like Hazel Dickens and looked up to Bay Area bluegrass
musicians such as Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick.
As Tuttle matured, her musical tastes soon ranged from Bob
Dylan and Gillian Welch to The Smiths and Neko Case. Because she kept seeing
Townes Van Zandt referenced to by songwriters she admired, Tuttle dug into his
catalog and found “White Freightliner Blues.” Her own exceptional rendition has
become a showcase for her nimble playing, as well as a graceful nod to her
musical heroes. And the circle continues; her own instructional videos of the
song online have been discovered by the next generation of pickers, who look to
her as a role model and for inspiration.
A virtuosic, award-winning guitarist with a gift for insightful
songwriting, Molly Tuttle evolves her signature sound with boundary-breaking
songs on her compelling debut album, When You’re Ready.
I love so many types of music,” she says “and it’s exciting
to be a part of and embraced by different musical worlds, but when I’m creating
I don’t think about genres or how it will fit into any particular format – it’s
just music.”
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