BONUS TRACKS: Molly Tuttle on PBS, Trey Anastasio’s Viral Duet, and an Interview with Kate Bush

As a No Depression reader, you’ve likely known about Molly Tuttle for years. But it seems the rest of the world is starting to take notice, and we welcome them to the club! PBS News Hour aired a segment about Tuttle this week, tracing her rise from family bands and struggling with alopecia as a teen to being named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s first female guitar player of the year and her current success with new album Crooked Tree with her band, Golden Highway (ND review). Check out that segment, titled “How Guitarist and Singer Molly Tuttle Became a Bluegrass Music Star,” here.

Trey Anastasio has collaborated with all sorts of folks, with Phish and in his solo work, and he was joined onstage Monday in Grand Rapids, Michigan, by a very special guest named Jovi, who is 7 years old. According to Relix, Jovi attended the Anastasio show toting a sign that said “Can I sing Bug with u?” After checking with Jovi’s mom, Anastasio invited the pint-sized fan onstage for the encore. In a fan’s video of the moment, Jovi, wearing a pink shirt that says “Kindness Is Magic,” seems a little shy at first, but then breaks into “Bug” to the clear delight of Anastasio, who backs her on guitar, and the entire audience. Read more about the moment and see the video in this writeup from Relix. For more on Anastasio’s belief that music can bring people together, see his essay in our current journal, themed “Movers & Shakers,” available in print and digitally here.

Before the current season of Stranger Things started airing on Netflix, you might not have thought about Kate Bush in a while — after all, the height of her career came in the late 1970s and 1980s. But her 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” is now evvvvverywhere, burning up the charts nearly 40 years after its release. Bush, now 63, rarely does interviews, but she spoke with a BBC radio program this week to express her appreciation for a new generation of fans and the way Stranger Things incorporated the song. “It’s quite shocking really, isn’t it?” she says. The whole world’s gone mad.” Read more about the song and the interview in this piece from Billboard, and you can stream the segment from BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. As ND’s own Through the Lens columnist Amos Perrine points out, Bush isn’t the only artist to get a late career push thanks to pop culture. Check out his thoughts on the rediscoveries of Sarah McLachlan, Patti LaBelle, and more in this week’s column.

WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO

Here’s a sampling of the songs, albums, bands, and sounds No Depression staffers have been into this week:

Jake Blount – “Didn’t It Rain,” from his new album, The New Faith, coming in September
Will Hoge – “John Prine’s Cadillac,” from his new album, Wings on My Shoes, coming in August
Kate Rhudy – “Ships in the Night”
Kacey Musgraves – “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” an Elvis Presley cover from the soundtrack of the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis movie, out today
Angel Olsen – “Greenville,” a Lucinda Williams cover for Amazon Original
Gregory Dwane – XX
Lee Rogers – Gameblood
Alice Howe – “500 Miles”
Improv4Humans podcast episode “Steve Earle Plays Jerry Jeff Walker”
Lissie – “Flowers”
Peter Mulvey and SistaStrings – “You and (Everybody Else),” from their new album, Love Is the Only Thing, coming in August
Sylvan Esso – “Your Reality”
Town Mountain – “Lines in the Levee,” the title track from their new album, coming in October