Inheriting a famous surname in country music is mostly a liability, because everyone arrives already deciding what you are, and the only way out is to be undeniable in a room. Nelson has spent fifteen years doing exactly that with a band that plays considerably harder than the acoustic setting suggests. Tuttle came from the other direction entirely — a flatpicker who won the genre's top guitar award as the first woman to do it, out of a California bluegrass family, technically astonishing in a way that makes other players stand very still. The two of them on one bill is a guitar night disguised as a songwriter night. High desert saloon, wooden floor, low ceiling, and a crowd that came a long way on a Wednesday. Music at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. The circuit of players who pass through this room across a year is the actual draw for the people who live out here.
Inheriting a famous surname in country music is mostly a liability, because everyone arrives already deciding what you are, and the only way out is to be undeniable in a room. Nelson has spent fifteen years doing exactly that with a band that plays considerably harder than the acoustic setting suggests. Tuttle came from the other direction entirely — a flatpicker who won the genre's top guitar award as the first woman to do it, out of a California bluegrass family, technically astonishing in a way that makes other players stand very still. The two of them on one bill is a guitar night disguised as a songwriter night. High desert saloon, wooden floor, low ceiling, and a crowd that came a long way on a Wednesday. Music at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. The circuit of players who pass through this room across a year is the actual draw for the people who live out here.
Inheriting a famous surname in country music is mostly a liability, because everyone arrives already deciding what you are, and the only way out is to be undeniable in a room. Nelson has spent fifteen years doing exactly that with a band that plays considerably harder than the acoustic setting suggests. Tuttle came from the other direction entirely — a flatpicker who won the genre's top guitar award as the first woman to do it, out of a California bluegrass family, technically astonishing in a way that makes other players stand very still. The two of them on one bill is a guitar night disguised as a songwriter night. High desert saloon, wooden floor, low ceiling, and a crowd that came a long way on a Wednesday. Music at 7:00 PM in Pioneertown. The circuit of players who pass through this room across a year is the actual draw for the people who live out here.