Molly Tuttle Welcomes Maggie Rose for The Rolling Stones and The Band Covers, Features on New Old Crow Medicine Show Single “Last American Waltz”
Molly Tuttle, photo by Erika Goldring
Molly Tuttle and Maggie Rose have spent the past week on a co-headline tour through the South. While they’re both noted forerunners in Americana with kindred slants on the singer-songwriter tradition, Tuttle and Rose’s eight-show series has united them onstage for the first time in their parallel careers. Last night, the duo seized the opportunity with a surprise live collaboration, joining forces for two covers in the evening’s encore.
At Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater, Rose set off the show with a 14-track set culminating in her 2024 hit “No One Gets Out Alive,” then Tuttle took the stage for 13 joyful bluegrass originals like “That’s Gonna Leave A Mark,” “She’ll Change,” and a closer of “So Long Little Miss Sunshine,” plus a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi.” By popular demand, the Grammy-winners returned to the stage with Tuttle’s backing band, then lit into The Rolling Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow,” which Tuttle has staged regularly since 2020 and the duo performed together for the first time at New Orleans’ Tipitina’s last week. The artists then turned to a rarer side with a cover of The Band’s “Up on Cripple Creek,” which returned to Tuttle’s live repertoire at the same NOLA show after a six-year absence.
While Tuttle heads to her follow-up at Louisville, Ky.’s Mercury Ballroom tonight, her voice can be heard on Old Crow Medicine Show’s new single, “Last American Waltz.” The traditional string band’s latest advance preview from their upcoming album Union Made, set to release via Hartland Records on June 5, features co-lead vocals from Tuttle and her husband, Ketch Secor, and comes coupled with a tender music video, filmed in the dancehall of Nashville’s American Legion. Tuttle previously guested on the lead single “My Side of the Mountain” alongside Del and Ronnie McCoury.
“‘Last American Waltz’ is a love song to America in 3/4 time,” Old Crow bandleader Secor said of the new single. “We wanted it to feel timeless – the kind of song that could drift across a dancehall floor at midnight or echo through an old American Legion hall after the lights come up. Having Molly Tuttle join us on this track brought even more heart and soul to the recording.”
Watch the music video for “Last American Waltz” and Tuttle and Rose’s take on “She’s a Rainbow” below.
