Marty Stuart & Molly Tuttle Trio Team For New ‘Cosmic Twang Co-Headline Tour’ In February
Marty Stuart and The Molly Tuttle Trio are teaming up for “Molly x Marty: Guitars on Fire — The Cosmic Twang Co-Headline Tour” beginning Feb. 5.
AMA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Stuart and bluegrass trailblazer Tuttle will team for seven dates, bridging Stuart and his band The Fabulous Superlatives’ honky-tonk, rockabilly, and cosmic country fusion with the Tuttle Trio’s virtuosic guitar work and boundary-pushing bluegrass. The tour will visit Bowling Green, Augusta, Birmingham, and more through Feb. 15, and tickets are available now here.
Stuart and the band recently shared a new video for “California Pt 1 (Bobby Gentry, Please Call Home)” off Space Junk, their first-ever double LP of 20 original instrumentals. The album, previously only available as a Record Store Day vinyl exclusive, is out now and showcases the interplay and bond between Marty and The Fabulous Superlatives, (Kenny Vaughan, Harry Stinson and Chris Scruggs.) The album’s origins can be traced to Stuart’s years composing for film and TV, including the score for All The Pretty Horses, which garnered a Golden Globe nomination and Best Country Instrumental Performance Grammy awards for “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” and “Hummingbyrd.”
“Instrumentals have always been a part of the Fabulous Superlatives repertoire, but this is the first completely instrumental album we’ve done, largely inspired by two of my favorite bands from sixties, The Ventures and Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass,” Stuart says. “They did some dangerously cool instrumental records. We’ve done bluegrass, gospel, and country records. Our hearts just led us to this one. Space Junk turned us back into kids with our first guitars. We thought the world needed a fresh instrumental album by a pretty good band, so we composed 20 instrumentals and took them to the microphones.”
Molly X Marty: Guitars on Fire – the Cosmic Twang Tour Dates:
2/05 – Bowling Green, KY @ SKyPAC – Main Hall
2/06 – Augusta, GA @ William B. Bell Auditorium
2/07 – Birmingham, AL @ Alabama Theatre
2/12 – Geneva, NY @ Smith Opera House
2/13 – Wilkes-Barre, PA @ The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
2/14 – York, PA @ Appell Center for the Performing Arts – Capitol Theatre
2/15 – New London, CT @ Garde Arts Center – Garde Theater
