Music / folk

Crooked tree


Description


Summary: Recorded live at Nashville's Oceanway Studios, this album features collaborations with Sierra Hull, Old Crow Medicine Show, Margo Price, Billy Strings, Dan Tyminski, and Gillian Welch. The album explores Molly Tuttle's lifelong love of bluegrass-a genre she first discovered through her father, a music teacher and multi-instrumentalist, and her grandfather, a banjo player.

Reviews (6)


Popmatters

d. 4. Apr. 2022

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d. 4. Apr. 2022

"Molly Tuttle brings in high-powered guests for Crooked Tree, a wide-ranging collection of excellent bluegrass and folk songs, but she's the star of the show ... Tuttle isn't radically reinventing the bluegrass genre on Crooked Tree, but her willingness to explore different sides of the genre and stretch into folk and cowboy styles serves her well ... The fast-paced tracks outnumber the slower stuff, but everything is interspersed in a way that makes the record a breezy listen. There is a lot to like here for bluegrass fans, and the presence of the multitude of guest stars should be an effective way for Tuttle to broaden her audience".


The observer

d. 2. Apr. 2022

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Neil Spencer

d. 2. Apr. 2022

"[With] a set of songs more concerned with strong women than strong whiskey (...), [Tuttle's first all-bluegrass affair] looks destined to establish the 29-year-old singer and guitarist with a wider audience ... It's an upbeat, melodic set full of phenomenal picking, not least from Tuttle herself. Thematically, it's bluegrass-lite; no bitter tears are shed for old loves, the Lord is not summoned, there's just the one murder ballad. Instead, Tuttle's clear voice delivers songs about strong women such as Side Saddle, a cowgirl duet with Gillian Welch, and cameos of modern America: San Francisco gentrification, weed farming and, on the title track, misfits such as herself. A class act".


Songlines

2022 May

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Doug DeLoach

2022 May

"Top of the world" - "Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle's first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer ... If the only instrument Tuttle commanded was her voice, a beguiling combination of California-cool-articulation-by-way-of-Nashville-warbling-twang, it would be enough. But, dang, her guitar wizardry amazes and her songwriting chops (paired with Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor) shine on every one of Crooked Tree's 13 tracks".


The observer

d. 2. Apr. 2022

By

By

Neil Spencer

d. 2. Apr. 2022

"[With] a set of songs more concerned with strong women than strong whiskey (...), [Tuttle's first all-bluegrass affair] looks destined to establish the 29-year-old singer and guitarist with a wider audience ... It's an upbeat, melodic set full of phenomenal picking, not least from Tuttle herself. Thematically, it's bluegrass-lite; no bitter tears are shed for old loves, the Lord is not summoned, there's just the one murder ballad. Instead, Tuttle's clear voice delivers songs about strong women such as Side Saddle, a cowgirl duet with Gillian Welch, and cameos of modern America: San Francisco gentrification, weed farming and, on the title track, misfits such as herself. A class act".


Songlines

2022 May

By

By

Doug DeLoach

2022 May

"Top of the world" - "Want to know what 21st-century bluegrass sounds like? Crooked Tree, Molly Tuttle's first purely bluegrass recording, is the answer ... If the only instrument Tuttle commanded was her voice, a beguiling combination of California-cool-articulation-by-way-of-Nashville-warbling-twang, it would be enough. But, dang, her guitar wizardry amazes and her songwriting chops (paired with Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor) shine on every one of Crooked Tree's 13 tracks".


Popmatters

d. 4. Apr. 2022

By

d. 4. Apr. 2022

"Molly Tuttle brings in high-powered guests for Crooked Tree, a wide-ranging collection of excellent bluegrass and folk songs, but she's the star of the show ... Tuttle isn't radically reinventing the bluegrass genre on Crooked Tree, but her willingness to explore different sides of the genre and stretch into folk and cowboy styles serves her well ... The fast-paced tracks outnumber the slower stuff, but everything is interspersed in a way that makes the record a breezy listen. There is a lot to like here for bluegrass fans, and the presence of the multitude of guest stars should be an effective way for Tuttle to broaden her audience".