{"id":1138,"date":"2025-09-25T05:55:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:38:15","slug":"molly-tuttle-brings-the-highway-to-victory-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/molly-tuttle-brings-the-highway-to-victory-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Tuttle Brings the Highway to Victory North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Tuttle has a way of making you feel like the music&#8217;s been with her and with you all along. This September 30th, when she takes the stage at Victory North, she&#8217;ll be doing more than just picking her way through a setlist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been to Savannah many times,&#8221; she told me recently. &#8220;The first time I was there was for the Savannah Music Festival years ago\u2026 It was so magical. I just remember walking around being totally mystified by the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\">\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\">\n<p>Long before the Grammy awards and national acclaim, Molly Tuttle was a student first at Berklee College of Music, where she took part in the festival&#8217;s Acoustic Music Seminar. &#8220;They take music students from all over the country,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;You go there and take workshops from different performers\u2026 then you perform at the end of the week. I did that a few times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her roots in Savannah run even deeper than that. &#8220;My grandmother actually lived in Savannah,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and has family ties to the city.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MOLLY-TUTTLE-1.jpg\" alt=\"MOLLY TUTTLE\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>I went to the graveyard where some of my relatives are buried and took pictures for my mom.&#8221; And now? &#8220;My mom is actually coming to the show in Savannah\u2026 she&#8217;s really excited about it as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That show will be a mix of new fire and old favorites. &#8220;We&#8217;re playing stuff off my whole discography,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It feels like it&#8217;s kind of a fun and dynamic show. I&#8217;ll go from like a bluegrass song to kind of a more rocking type number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just the fans who are finding their rhythm so is the band. &#8220;I have a new band this year, which has been really exciting,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;Each show we&#8217;re dialing stuff in more and more\u2026 it has been really fun playing the material off the new record, and also reworking a bunch of my older stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\">\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\">\n<p>One song in particular hits a sweet spot for her right now. &#8220;I love playing this one \u2018The Highway Knows&#8217; that&#8217;s one of my favorites off my new album,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Every time we get to that one in the set, it just feels uplifting to me, which is always what I want to convey with my shows and my music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The road to Savannah winds through Tuttle&#8217;s recent work on the The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes soundtrack recorded right here in town. &#8220;We recorded all the music for that movie in Savannah,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MOLLY-TUTTLE-2.jpg\" alt=\"MOLLY TUTTLE\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We finished recording in a few days, and then we had a whole week just to kind of hang out\u2026 go on the boat\u2026 walk around. I just absolutely loved getting to spend so much time in the city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d take breaks in the afternoon and go to the local wine bar,&#8221; she laughed. &#8220;Then we&#8217;d record for a few more hours and go out to these amazing Savannah restaurants.&#8221; She describes the whole experience as &#8220;very relaxed,&#8221; but also &#8220;mindful&#8221; especially when it came to honoring the intentions of author Suzanne Collins and capturing the sound of old folk ballads and Carter Family style Americana.<\/p>\n<p>For the soundtrack, she even helped track down the perfect instrument: &#8220;I connected Dave [Cobb] with some folks in Nashville who run Carter Vintage Guitar\u2026 they had the perfect archtop. And the guitar you see in the movie is the guitar I played on the soundtrack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\">\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\">\n<p>From Berklee kid to bandleader to film contributor, Tuttle&#8217;s trajectory is dizzying but her music still feels grounded, even when she&#8217;s on tour. &#8220;Writing and touring at the same time is tough,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There are songs I&#8217;ve written while being on tour, but I definitely slow down a little bit compared to when I&#8217;m home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When she returns to Savannah this fall, it won&#8217;t just be another stop on the tour. It&#8217;ll be a kind of homecoming. &#8220;It&#8217;s just one of my absolute favorite cities,&#8221; she said. And if the highway knows, like her song says, it knows it&#8217;s bringing Molly Tuttle somewhere she&#8217;s always belonged.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width2\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MOLLY-TUTTLE-3.jpg\" alt=\"MOLLY TUTTLE\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>Molly Tuttle &amp; Golden Highway will perform at Victory North Savannah on Monday, September 30, at 8:00 p.m., with special guests Joshua Ray Walker and Cecilia Castleman. Tickets are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.victorynorthsavannah.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VictoryNorthSavannah.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MOLLY-TUTTLE-4.jpg\" alt=\"MOLLY TUTTLE\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"width: 100%;\" href=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Subscribe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/September_2025_Issue-1.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"authorbio\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_width1\" style=\"padding:2%;box-shadow: 0 4px 8px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2), 0 6px 20px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.19);\">\n<h3>About The Author<\/h3>\n<div class=\"fl-lt ad_width6a\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Brett.png\" alt=\"Brett\" style=\"width:100%;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0;\">Brett Bigelow<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fl-rt ad_width6b\">\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><!--Bio Text will Go Here--><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Tuttle has a way of making you feel like the music&#8217;s been with her and with you all along. This September 30th, when she takes the stage at Victory North, she&#8217;ll be doing more than just picking her way through a setlist. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been to Savannah many times,&#8221; she told me recently. &#8220;The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[264,263,262,265,351,350,92,77],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","tag-georgia","tag-savannah-ga","tag-savannah-tourism","tag-visit-savannah","tag-molly-tuttle","tag-molly-tuttle-interview","tag-savannah","tag-savannah-georgia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savannahmadesimple.com\/Magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}