Posted on Feb 3, 2023
In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a 'Crooked Tree'
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While public health restrictions kept it dormant during the pandemic, the Station Inn still got a shout-out from the Grammy Awards.
In March 2021, the Grammy telecast aired a pre-produced segment about the celebrated bluegrass venue in Nashville, Tenn. – one of several independently run clubs profiled that year. In that feature, owner J.T. Gray promised a national audience that the club would reopen: "That's going to be a celebration like never before," he said. "It's going to be a big party."
Gray died at age 75 the following week, and did not live to see his club reopen. But the Station Inn once again features music seven days a week.
While public health restrictions kept it dormant during the pandemic, the Station Inn still got a shout-out from the Grammy Awards.
In March 2021, the Grammy telecast aired a pre-produced segment about the celebrated bluegrass venue in Nashville, Tenn. – one of several independently run clubs profiled that year. In that feature, owner J.T. Gray promised a national audience that the club would reopen: "That's going to be a celebration like never before," he said. "It's going to be a big party."
Gray died at age 75 the following week, and did not live to see his club reopen. But the Station Inn once again features music seven days a week.
In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a 'Crooked Tree'
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..."The song is also inspired by her experience growing up with alopecia, the autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. She says it came about after a long journey of growing up wearing hats, then wigs, then learning to talk about her wig, and eventually growing comfortable going without. She says the song is about "embracing your differences."
"That's for me a moment in my shows where if I feel in the right mood, I can talk about it a little bit and even take off my wig and play that song," Tuttle said. "And so I'm kind of slowly learning to express that side of who I am in my music as well."
At her album release party at The Station Inn, she announced it was getting hot on stage – and that it was time to remove the wig – and after a preamble from Jerry Douglas on the resonator guitar, she and her band launched into the title track.
"So who am I to wish I wasn't just the way I am? Who am I?" she sang. And then she hit the chorus. "Oh, I'd rather be a crooked tree."
..."The song is also inspired by her experience growing up with alopecia, the autoimmune disease that causes hair loss. She says it came about after a long journey of growing up wearing hats, then wigs, then learning to talk about her wig, and eventually growing comfortable going without. She says the song is about "embracing your differences."
"That's for me a moment in my shows where if I feel in the right mood, I can talk about it a little bit and even take off my wig and play that song," Tuttle said. "And so I'm kind of slowly learning to express that side of who I am in my music as well."
At her album release party at The Station Inn, she announced it was getting hot on stage – and that it was time to remove the wig – and after a preamble from Jerry Douglas on the resonator guitar, she and her band launched into the title track.
"So who am I to wish I wasn't just the way I am? Who am I?" she sang. And then she hit the chorus. "Oh, I'd rather be a crooked tree."
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