Following back-to-back Grammy-winning albums with her band Golden Highway, along with a Best New Artist nomination, Molly Tuttle releases her new solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on August 15, 2025 via Nonesuch Records. Recorded in Nashville with producer Jay Joyce (Orville Peck, Miranda Lambert, Lainey Wilson), the fifth full album from the singer, songwriter, and virtuoso guitarist marks a sonic departure from her recent work and features twelve new songs—eleven originals and one cover, of Icona Pop and Charli xcx’s “I Love It.” The album’s first single, “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark,” which she co-wrote with Kevin Griffin (Better Than Ezra), is also out today; links to listen are below.
Tuttle and her new live band will set out on a run of summer tour dates in the US on June 6 in Vail, CO. This fall, they’ll kick off “The Highway Knows” tour on September 10 with a show in Chicago, IL. The dates include both festival and headline shows and conclude on December 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. She also plays an intimate show at New York’s Mercury Lounge on June 24. Tickets for most of the newly announced dates are on-sale Friday, June 6 here; all shows are listed below.
Tuttle says, “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.’”
She continues, “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.”
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Tuttle’s career has charted a course between honoring bluegrass and stretching its boundaries. One of the most decorated female guitarist alive, she was the first woman to win the prestigious International Bluegrass Music Award’s Guitar Player of the Year in 2017, at age twenty-four, 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.
On her new album—a hybrid of pop, country, rock, and flat-picking, plus one murder ballad—Tuttle goes to a whole new place. Her virtuoso guitar work takes center stage on this album more than ever, and for the first time, she 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 says.
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 So Long Little Miss Sunshine, which features multiple Mollys, 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.
So Long Little Miss Sunshine Track List:
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:
6/6 – Mountains of Music Concert Series – Vail, CO
6/14 – All Good Now Festival @ Merriweather Pavilion – Columbia, MD
6/22 – Mountain Jam Festival – Highmount, NY
6/24 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NY
6/26 – ROMP – Owensboro, KY
6/27 – Blue Ox Music Festival – Eau Claire, WI
6/28 – Summerfest – Milwaukee, WI
7/3 – High Sierra – Quincy, CA
7/5 – Grassfire Festival – Garrettsville, OH
7/19 – Caramoor American Roots Music Festival – Katonah, NY
7/25 – RockyGrass Festival weekend Golden Highway – Lyons, CO
8/1 -2 – Wildlands Festival – Big Sky, MT
8/8 – The Amphitheater at Canyons Village – Park City, UT
8/9 – Knitting Factory – Boise, ID
8/10 – Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival – Alta, WY
8/14 – The Burl - Outdoors – Lexington, KY
8/15 – State Theatre – State College, PA
8/16 – Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots – Manchester Center, VT
8/17 – Point of the Bluff Vineyards – Hammondsport, NY
8/21 – The Ramkat – Winston-Salem, NC
8/22 – Georgia Mountain Fair – Hiawassee, GA
8/23 – Marcus King Family Reunion – North Charleston, SC
8/30 – Rhythm & Roots Festival – Charlestown, RI
“The Highway Knows Tour 2025”
9/10 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL
9/11 – Masonic Cathedral Theatre – Detroit, MI
9/12 – Globe Iron – Cleveland, OH
9/13 – Carnegie Homestead Music Hall – Pittsburgh, PA
9/15 – Opera House – Toronto, ON
9/17 – Royale – Boston, MA
9/18 – Brooklyn Steel – Brooklyn, NY
9/20 – XPoNential Music Festival – Philadelphia, PA
9/23 – The Beacon Theatre – Hopewell, VA
9/25 – Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre – Wilmington, NC
9/26 – Cat's Cradle – Carrboro, NC
9/27 – Orange Peel – Asheville, NC
9/28 – Tennessee Theatre – Knoxville, TN
9/30 – Victory North – Savannah, GA
10/1 – The Plaza Live – Orlando, FL
10/2 – Capitol Theatre – Clearwater, FL
10/3 – Moon Crush (Avett Brothers) – Miramar Beach, FL
10/4 – Variety Playhouse – Atlanta, GA
10/10 – The Hawthorn – St. Louis, MO
10/11 – Liberty Hall – Lawrence, KS
10/12 – Slowdown – Omaha, NE
10/14 – The ELM – Bozeman, MT
10/16 – The Showbox – Seattle, WA
10/17 – Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
10/18 – Holly Theater – Medford, OR
10/19 – Cascade Theatre – Redding, CA
10/25 – Ogden Theater – Denver, CO
11/2 – Suwannee Hulaween – Live Oak, FL
11/12 – Poplar Hall – Appleton, WI
11/13 – Grand Theater – Wausau, WI
11/14 – Varsity Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
11/15 – Stoughton Opera House – Stoughton, WI
11/16 – Englert Theater – Iowa City, IA
11/18 – Castle Theatre – Bloomington, IL
11/20 – Vogue – Indianapolis, IN
11/21 – Memorial Hall – Cincinnati, OH
11/22 – Athenaeum Theatre – Columbus, OH
11/23 – TBD – Roanoke, VA
12/3 – Atone’s – Austin, TX
12/5 – Marquee Theatre – Tempe, AZ
12/6 – House of Blues – San Diego, CA
12/7 – Arlington Theater – Santa Barbara, CA
12/10 – Rialto Theatre – Tucson, AZ
12/11 – The Fonda – Los Angeles, CA
12/12 – Tower Theatre – Fresno, CA
12/13 – The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
