I could see myself doing this for a long time.” I realized I just wanted to play music as much as possible. Just seeing people like that up close was like, “Whoa, I could actually do this, and this world feels like where I belong. I remember going into the greenroom to put my stuff down and seeing him just sitting there with a guitar, and that blew my mind. Gillian Welch was there, and Dave Rawlings. Me and my dad somehow finagled backstage passes and got to go to this afterparty, and Hazel was there. One big moment for me, when I was like 12 or 13, was getting to go to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco and seeing Earl Scruggs, Hazel Dickens…. Tuttle: I remember as a kid, I played a lot with my dad and we would play around the area where I grew up, in the Bay Area-play different local shows. Strings: What are some of your earliest memories of playing with your dad? Do you have any big moments as a child that you were like, “This is what I’m doing-I’m a guitar player”?
It kind of came down to songwriting, to me-like, how do I tell my story through this music and show how it came to be such a big part of my life? I feel like I’ve gone the other way and been like, “Well, I’m not just a bluegrass musician, I play all this other stuff too.” And then I’ve also felt like, I want to play bluegrass and make it authentic to the genre. But how do I tell my own story through bluegrass? ’Cause there are those two ends of the spectrum. Tuttle: I really resonate with that, because I’ve gone through so many phases of trying to figure out who I am musically, and it took me longer to accept bluegrass as part of who I am. Bluegrass is the music that can make me laugh or cry, that I really feel in my soul, and so my electric guitar started collecting dust.
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I was like, “Man, I want to play music with people with common interests, not just sitting here talking about Gunsmoke or something.”īut I joined metal bands and got that out of my system, and eventually, I came back around full circle and just had this realization that bluegrass is what I cut my teeth on and what I was spoon-fed as a boy, and it’s really where my heart truly is.
I was getting too cool to be hanging out with my dad’s old friends playing bluegrass. When you were growing up playing music with your dad, did you ever feel like there was a disconnect between the bluegrass side of what you did and other music you played with your peers, or listened to with your peers?īilly Strings: Yeah, I remember it was probably around the time I was in middle school-I was a skateboarder, and I was playing video games and just hangin’ out with friends. Molly Tuttle: Billy, you made that awesome new record with your dad.
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