The Bobby Bones Show - BOBBYCAST -  Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor and Molly Tuttle on Wagon Wheel

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Molly Tuttle sit down with Bobby to talk about their love story, how their relationship came together, and the moments t...hat made them realize this was something real. Ketch also shares the wild story behind writing “Wagon Wheel” from an unfinished Bob Dylan bootleg, what it was like to later hear from Dylan himself, and why that connection still feels surreal. Plus, the two talk about music, bluegrass, fate, and the time Ketch visited a fortune teller as a teenager that somehow still sticks with him all these years later! Watch The BobbyCast on Netflix! Follow on Instagram: @TheBobbyCast Follow on TikTok: @TheBobbyCastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:02:35 And that last line at the end, at least I will die free if I get to Raleigh. That's the state motto of New Hampshire. live free or die Hey welcome to the show We're gonna have catch from Old Crow Medicine Show And Molly Tuttle from Well Molly Tuttle
Starting point is 00:02:53 Toll to excellent musicians To awesome people and they just so happen To be engaged now And if you want to go see Molly on tour She's awesome Molly and Marty It's Molly Tuttle and Marty Stewart The Guitar's on Fire tour
Starting point is 00:03:07 Molly Tuttle.com We'll talk about that We'll talk about Bob Dylan We'll talk about wagon wheel, all that coming up. Glad you guys are here. Let's go. Guys, good to see you both. Yeah, thanks for having us.
Starting point is 00:03:18 I'm fans of you in different ways. Molly, I'm fans of you through just watching your clips from the Opry and also being at the Opry. That was my introduction to you, was you playing the Opry and be like, holy crap. There's only like two people I'm intimidated by it. Dentists and Bluegrass Players, for the record. That's it. Those are those choppers.
Starting point is 00:03:38 Well, I got one broken right now. Now, I don't see why you'd be scared of a dentist. You look like you never even seen one. These are all, exactly. Exactly. These are all fake. Oh, really? When I first made money, I bought my mama trailer and I bought me all new teeth.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Not a joke. There is a joke that I do in my act about that, that when I first made money, I bought the two T's, teeth in a trailer. Also, my favorite Toby Keith song. People love that one, teeth in a trailer. So they catch and laugh. But see, also it's not the room. It must be a deep cut. No, I wasn't giving it like the breath.
Starting point is 00:04:12 But anyway. I'm laughing now. Thank you, Ketch. So, Molly, that's how I know you. And Ketch, I've just seen them like wandering outside my house. Outside your house. Yeah, just like laying out of my house. I ran into Ketch.
Starting point is 00:04:28 Well, they were playing at a record store here in town. And I messed up on the time. I got there way too early. There was nobody there. And I'm like, nobody came to watch Old Kro? Was it that Grimes or something? Yes, it was a Grimys, but I got there like an hour early. And so I'm there and I'm watching them, and they're playing the same song over and over again.
Starting point is 00:04:46 And I'm going, this is the weirdest show. What's happening with this show? Then I realized I was there an hour early and they were just rehearsing a Christmas song. Yes. It must have seen like a performance art style. With him, I didn't know what was going on. And so what made it weirder was that I just come off that horrible flu everybody had. and I had smeared a lot of lubricant into my nostrils like this.
Starting point is 00:05:13 And I had it all over my... I didn't see any lubricant. I was glowing. I didn't see any lubricant. This guy comes up and he's like, hey, I think that's Bobby Bones over there. I was just standing there watching by myself going, nobody's at this concert. When you see people out of context, like I didn't think that we'd be seeing you at our in-store at the local record shop. Because, you know, you're a big person in our world.
Starting point is 00:05:35 Okay. So when he whispered that to me, I like sat up a lot more rigidly and forgot that I was covered in this kind of shining snot lubricant. There was no lubricant. I was greased. You were beautiful. I was like a hog, man. All I know is I didn't want to bother them. And I was watching.
Starting point is 00:05:53 And then I realized I was there way early. So I went back to looking at some records. I like vinyl. Yeah. And I just like the physicality of it, like having something. I like the art. I think now I just like the art of it more than really anything else. Yeah. I like listening to the whole thing.
Starting point is 00:06:08 Last night I was picking out this record. I went through all my records. I started putting them on. And I was like, this is so refreshing to just sit with a whole album and not have like the playlist with different songs thrown in and just listen to the sequence. Did you ever have cassettes? Yeah, I had a bunch. My first car, I remember when I was, I got my first car when I was 18 and it had a cassette player. So I got a bunch of cassettes for it.
Starting point is 00:06:29 Because the car had it. You didn't actually have. I had that one of the kids. Yeah, we had you are. And you could. you had to listen to the whole tape. And not just cassettes, casingles.
Starting point is 00:06:39 Yeah, but they had like one on each side. My favorite ever, MC Hammer, vanilla ice, one on each side. Can't touch this on the front, ice ice baby on the back. Whoa. Yeah, I got it at the mall.
Starting point is 00:06:50 It was a limited edition. That must have been. I don't mean to brag. Because normally it would have been Ice Ice Baby on one side and then play that funky music white boy on the back. Okay, sure, yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:59 Ninja or Please Hammer don't hurt them and, well, I guess that was the name of the album. That's right. Good recall. Well, my favorite. Let me finish my story, Ken. Hold on. Sorry, Bobby.
Starting point is 00:07:08 I'm jumping on here. We're in the record store, and I have now, Molly, I've turned my focus to not wanting to bother them because I realize I'm here an hour early. And this could be awkward for everybody. And I'm a pretty awkward person anyway. So I'm just like, okay, I don't want to bother catch. I don't want him to feel like he has to come talk to me. And he comes up and he puts his hand on me and he just lifts his shirt up to show an undershirt. Just before he says hello or anything.
Starting point is 00:07:29 And he goes, check it out. And it says, like, the natural, the land of opportunity. I think is what the shirt said or the natural state or something. And I'm from Arkansas, and that's like our slogan. Right. And he goes, I was just here. And that's what he led with. Wow.
Starting point is 00:07:46 Then he said to me, just got engaged. Oh, nice. He said, we just came back from California. Yeah, that would have been right after because we got engaged and then just didn't see each other for a month because we were both on tour and he was on his Christmas tour. So that makes sense. I must have taken my truth serum before. I didn't leak it. I didn't even leak it.
Starting point is 00:08:03 And the pictures weren't up on Instagram. yet, so I didn't say anything about it to anybody. Yeah, we had to get them up before I started playing concerts because I wanted to wear the ring to play live, and then I was like, I don't know, people are going to be zooming in on their phones, and they'll be like, what's what's with the engagement ring? Because you're like the press, you know?
Starting point is 00:08:19 But I'm not because... You're sort of big media to me. No, you're confusing me with the AP. A lot of people do that. I wouldn't normally do that, but I live in Nashville. So you're like, you know, an agent of, you know, media. Yeah, I know you, though.
Starting point is 00:08:36 And I heard you, and I, you know, when we saw each other that day at the record store, Molly and I had just been listening to you. That's not true. No, we have on this Bay Area country station out of San Jose. Yeah. Like it was days before. Yeah, we were listening to your show a lot in the car. You have a unique way of being anywhere at all times.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Yeah. Like, you don't speak in a specific way. Like, oh, I want to reach all of our listeners out here. I mean, you do that in those like little sidebars. But when you're doing your show, it's very universal. Like, you could be listening in Alaska or Florida. I am ubiquitous with communication. I'm everywhere all the time, and you don't know where I am.
Starting point is 00:09:17 I like that. Yeah, thank you. But for an Arkansas, that's kind of rare. Because most people from your state, you let them know we're from here. Not as much as Texans, to be fair. Texans, they want you to know their Texans. I think you're absolutely right. Yeah, thank you for that.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Texans definitely crow about it. Anyway, Molly, congratulations. You guys. Thank you. You cut me off again. So he told me I was super pumped and then I saw the pictures come out. And then I mentioned it on my show in that order because I'm not the Associated Press. I'm not trying to break a story.
Starting point is 00:09:46 I'm not trying to break a story over here. But I was super pumped. So before we talk about anything music or professional, how did you guys meet? Is there a story like a real one or was it just naturally organic? You guys were just in the same circles. Yeah, we met. I was opening for Old Crow at the Rhymen. and that's how we met just backstage, said hi, and then I went on tour with them, did a couple other shows together that summer, then backstage at one of the shows later in maybe August or something, Ketch was like, I think we should go on a duo tour together.
Starting point is 00:10:19 And I was like, sure, like he's one of my favorite musicians. So we just kind of became friends, did this tour together. We rehearsed a lot. So we were both just kind of like, let's rehearse. I think we both liked each other, but, you know, we just. I didn't think she liked me at all. She's a really phenomenal musician No, I know
Starting point is 00:10:37 Like I said, I'm intimidated by you both A little more her than you Yeah, but I feel more like I'm a mic worker I'm somebody I'm a juggler with words And I'm an entertainer A song and dance man
Starting point is 00:10:49 But she's a picker Okay I have questions about your picking styles But I want to focus on this for a second So you guys You're opening for him He does the whole Be my opening act
Starting point is 00:11:01 Let's tour Does the whole song and dance when did you know that he kind of had he just showed up at my house and was like I really like you this was like a year after that so it was during the pandemic we were going to have like a
Starting point is 00:11:15 maybe like play some tunes out in the front yard social distance style and instead of that he was kind of just like blurted it was almost like word fomit you were just like were you nervous going into that that's quite the proclamation I had broken up with my girlfriend a couple of days before knowing that the gnawing feeling could not be cut loose.
Starting point is 00:11:36 So you had a bad. Yeah, I had a real bad. Like I couldn't stop thinking about Molly. I was just, and, you know, obsession for a person like me was more of a rumination than it was like I'm looking at pictures of you all day, like a, you know, freaky kind of thing. I'm not that it wasn't that.
Starting point is 00:11:57 I'm not sure that it wasn't now with how I described that. I know. Now you're like specifically describing this thing that none of us really. thought was the case. I just see a board in your house, like when they're investigating a crime and they have all the pictures of all the people. It's just Molly walking out of the house, walking to get coffee. What you're describing is what my mindset was. She was every picture, every thought, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:19 and just a really inspiring person, you know, like I just didn't, I don't think that I had really fallen in love before. And, you know, I'd been married before and I have children. And I've lived a healthy long-ish life. But the kind of love that I was feeling when I first met you was like, whoa, this is, I don't think this is going away. And it was achy too. Like it wasn't just, I really like this gal. We'd be so great together.
Starting point is 00:12:46 It was like a little painful, like a little nauseating. Like I, you know, like we went out on a couple of dates and I, and it was agony after it was over. Sounds like rickets. Yeah. I sure he didn't have rickets. Like hookworm. Did you know he had these feelings before we told you that?
Starting point is 00:13:06 I had no idea because you were always telling him about your girlfriends and people you're dating. Like we'd catch up and just talk about our love lives and these people. And we were both seeing nothing like super serious. But it was just kind of funny once he made the proclamation. Then I was like, hmm, I hadn't considered this before. And then she went on a cross-country road trip with her boyfriend. Oh, you still had a boyfriend at the time. I did.
Starting point is 00:13:30 Oh, we're going to go there. Extra brave. No, but extra brave by you knowing that and you still went there. Yeah, yeah, I just knew. You had rickets. I get it. You got to get it out of the system. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:42 And how long until you guys dated after that? Maybe a month or two. A couple months passed. There was some letter writing and she wrote back to me. Yeah, we had broke. Me and my boyfriend were kind of about to break up. Then we broke up and then a couple months later we started dating. You wrote letters to each other?
Starting point is 00:13:59 He wrote me a letter. Well, I'm a letter. Yeah, and I was just like shocked to find it. I was like, wait, what? Because we hadn't really, I was just kind of like, well, okay. What is this? My name on a piece of stamp? Where did you mail it?
Starting point is 00:14:14 To your house? Yeah, to my house. So I got back and I found this letter. I was like, okay. I was just like, we can just stay friends. So you wrote a letter from your house and mailed it to her house? What do you think the total distance was between the two? We're in the same zip code.
Starting point is 00:14:27 Yeah. We're about, I'd say, 1.8 miles. You know, I mean, we live together now. I would think you, yeah, there's a possibility now, but then you sent a letter 1.8 miles, but probably it was the significance of the letter, right? The writing of it on a piece of paper. Yeah, I just needed to get it out and just save my piece. How many pages was it?
Starting point is 00:14:46 Well, it wasn't a card. It was a full... It was on stationery. Page of paper. I think it was like the front and a back of a full, like, piece of paper. You know, I'm a chatter box. When I get a pencil, I really start talking. Do you write songs pencil and paper?
Starting point is 00:15:03 Yeah. Not really on the laptop or anything? Well, we write on the laptop too. But it'll be both and that's more of a newer thing. What's the newer thing? The laptop. Laptop. Writing on a laptop.
Starting point is 00:15:17 I mean, I can write on a phone too. We write a lot of songs in the car. Is music always happening with you too? Not always, I don't think. But we're always kind of deciding on like what's our next. song we're going to write about, but then we just do kind of like go on walks, do stuff around the house, and we might not do anything musical for, I don't know, a couple of days and then just kind of come back to it.
Starting point is 00:15:41 But I think we will start writing songs like in random, like we're so often traveling that we write a lot of songs while traveling, so like in the car and hotel rooms. Do you ever ride at home just like, hey, let's just write? Yeah, that's probably the most usual. That's more successful. I feel like when we're traveling, your brain gets kind of scattered. For me, like when I'm on tour, I just totally get out of the writing mindset. So if we're both home for prolonged periods of time, that's when we start writing most productively, I think.
Starting point is 00:16:09 But we also write on FaceTime, too, when we're apart. Sometimes, yeah. Like, we're apart a lot because, of course, she's playing, I mean, she played almost twice as many concerts last year as I did. I'll do like 100 shows a year. I don't know. I'll do like 70. Still a lot, but. It's plenty for me, but she does it a lot more.
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Starting point is 00:20:02 I'm curious about some techniques as a player because I was reading, and I'm not even to remember them, but there was like a claw. Is there a claw? What's that called? There is a claw hammer, guitar. So it's like a, you hear about claw hammer banjo a lot. It's kind of a band.
Starting point is 00:20:15 banjo style. It's old time banjo, which sort of predates bluegrass. So it's this kind of rhythmic style of playing where your hand looks like this when you're playing. It almost looks, I don't know if that's why it's called claw hammer, I assume, because your hands are sort of looks like a claw when you're playing and you're kind of hitting the strings and plucking up with your thumb, and it hits the banjo, and it makes this sort of rhythmic, percussive sound. And then it's basically taking that style and applying it to guitar, which is less common. So when I was a teenager, I played the Clawhammer banjo because I love, I started playing it because of Gillian Welch, and she does a few songs on her records on Clawhammer Banjo.
Starting point is 00:20:51 So I wanted to learn all her songs. So I picked up the Clawhammer banjo and then someone showed me that you could swap it over to the guitar. It almost looks like I get people telling me that it looks like I'm playing slap bass on the guitar sometimes. Is there a flat, is there a style called flat something? Flat picking. Okay. Will you explain that one to me? That's like bluegrass, like typical bluegrass lead guitar playing you call flat picking.
Starting point is 00:21:12 So you're playing with a pick and just playing these sort of usually kind of intricate or high-speed melodies on the guitar with this pretty heavy pick that Bluegrass players generally use pretty thick, like bigger picks. So yeah, I think I've only heard flat picking really applied to Bluegrass lead guitar players. so someone like Billy Strings or like Tony Rice was someone who sort of pioneered the style or Doc Watson. He did a lot of flat picking. Your dad was a player? I know he was Bluegrass. Was he a player?
Starting point is 00:21:49 What did he play? He started to plays everything. He plays well, all the Bluegrass instruments. He plays fiddle and mandolin and guitar and banjo and he also used to play bass with me when I was a kid. Me and my brothers played shows with our dad. We had like a little family band and he would play bass. And he's mostly amused.
Starting point is 00:22:06 music teacher. So he's taught music since he moved out to the Bay Area near San Francisco in the 70s and found this little music shop and started teaching lessons there. So he's taught tons of people all over California, bluegrass music for a long time. And that's his primary thing. But he likes performing here and there. He just doesn't do it too often. I was talking to someone recently about music and nature versus nurture or nature and nurture. And I was asked if I thought that music ability was something learned. And I said, I think it's a bit of both. Because if you're around it, regardless of what it is, it starts to get a lot easier for you. Especially if you're around it in an early age.
Starting point is 00:22:44 You understand it in those formative years of brain growth. But then also, I do think there's something that if I can run fast, my kid will probably be able to run fast, just genetically speaking. Because your dad is a teacher, did your brothers play? You have two younger brothers who play. What do you think? You think nature and nurture when it comes to music? Well, I think for me, just being around it made me have such an interest in music. I don't know if I would have gravitated towards it if I didn't grow up in a musical household,
Starting point is 00:23:14 but I just heard it from such an early age. My dad would have jam sessions at the house, or he'd just play songs around the house, constantly playing records. And then when I went to play, I remember picking up a guitar. It was not easy for me at all. Like, I felt like I struggled. I feel like I almost like looking back, I was like, I felt like I had no natural ability. Like, it was so hard for me. But then I started practicing and practicing a lot more.
Starting point is 00:23:38 And I think just having so much music around the house, I was able to pick up things by ear a little more naturally. But then my brothers, they like, I feel like when they picked up instruments, they just were so fast and they were able to do it really easily maybe because they saw me playing and had kind of watched how I learned. The younger? Yeah, two younger brothers. How did you not burn out?
Starting point is 00:24:00 I remember when I was like in middle school, I started having this routine where I would make myself practice guitar for two hours a day. I was like, I need to practice two hours every day. And I don't, like, looking back, it was sort of crazy. And I would just feel, I felt burnt out. Even like as a young person, I was putting so much pressure on myself to just play and play and play. But I feel like I had this, like, internal drive that I just wanted to get better and better, even though sometimes I was like, oh, I just wish I could take a day off, but I, like, wouldn't let myself.
Starting point is 00:24:32 Do you think at all it was to be closer to your dad? I think that was a huge part of it because it became like this really fun thing that we did together and this bond that we shared. So I still feel like when I'm sending songs or sending records to my dad, I want him to like them. And I'm like, oh, I really care like what he thinks about my music. But I feel like it's gotten to the point of just like
Starting point is 00:24:54 we're now just kind of friends and he'll come out to my shows and I know he's going to have a good time and he loves it. So I think back then it was just also the story. way to kind of, you know, feel good about myself in general. It kind of helped me have more confidence as a kid, and it was like a boost to myself esteem, but I also really just loved to play, and I loved getting together with other people to play, and I wanted to sound good when I was, you know, in that situation, going to a jam session or getting together with friends. Ketch, what is your kid genesis as far as music? Like, what did you start playing music?
Starting point is 00:25:26 I had encounters with American folk music traditions at a young age that seemed to pull something out in me. Encounters. I had a... It felt like a spaceship landed. Well, it kind of felt that way, Bobby. It was like... Because, you know, what makes somebody, like, whose dad is not a guitar teacher, my dad has been, for his career, an elementary school principal. Mom worked in schools, too.
Starting point is 00:25:54 We lived in five states by the fifth grade. We moved around a ton. But in the first grade, this wonderful person came to my school to give a program named John Hartford, who is a really famous Missouri musician who wrote this amazing song, Gentle on My Mind, which Glenn Campbell rocketed to number one back in the 70s. And that allowed John Hartford to get a TV show and become one of America's kind of premier folk musician, traditional fiddler or banjo picker type of guys. wore a bowler hat, buck dance on right in front of me when I was six years old.
Starting point is 00:26:29 So I remember seeing that and thinking, well, that's entertaining. And then, you know, I found that I loved my mom's record collection when I was a kid, which was up in the attic, and I pulled that down. I had a paper route when I was a kid. And when I first got my route, I went to go by an alarm clock so I could start getting up early. But the alarm clock had an AM radio on it, or radio, but the AM dial was so great. So at about 5.30 in the morning when I get up, I'd be listening to Cincinnati or Detroit or Toronto, the clear channel thing. And it wasn't like I was hearing like the Grand Ole Opry and a bunch of music, but I was hearing all these towns.
Starting point is 00:27:08 So for me, it was as much about music as it was about wanderlust, wanting to understand America, being called. So back to your nature or nurture question. I think there's another component, which is, did your soul get selection? to be brought into the world of entertainment. Because the thing that we do and we're entertainers is we reflect something that can be more than one person at once. You know, it's an on-mass sort of, like my experience as a musician and as a traveler and as a storyteller helps somebody else out there better compartmentalize their own experience. Or did they go through something tough?
Starting point is 00:27:50 Are they away from home right now and lonesome? that kind of power is a divinity. And it's just a gift that we all in this room have because we're all people that can talk through the mic and make somebody else out there in the world feel more at ease or more agitated or more excited or turned on or whatever it is. So I think there's, you know, I always felt like a decent musician, a good communicator, but also a really soul for person who had a story to tell that could, have a universal implication. Where do you think you got your first music affirmation? Singing in the young singers of Missouri. You see, bordering on the great state of Arkansas is a far more greater state. It's called the show me state. And it's got a lot more going on. It's a larger state. It's got a lot of regional biodiversity. And it has many large cultural
Starting point is 00:28:45 centers, including St. Louis and Kansas City. It might not have as great a football team, but it certainly has a upward mobility trump card. So you would sing and you were told you were a good singer and you liked that feeling? I was a member of young singers of Missouri. But you had to be good to be a member, right? I think they would have took anybody. You just had to fit to be young. Yeah, you needed to have a mother who could get you a cumberbunt.
Starting point is 00:29:13 I thought it was cumberbund. It's called a cumberbund. Man, I'm learning stuff like crazy today. Cumberbund. I thought it had a bun to. I thought it was bund as well. We may have to fact check that, boys, what is it called? A cumber bun?
Starting point is 00:29:25 Cumberbunt. Oh, is it bun? Oh, I don't know. I had one for prom. I ended up not wearing it. You didn't wear it in a prom. I had one. It was red because I had a red, and I ended up not wearing it because it felt a look.
Starting point is 00:29:36 I maxed out on dork. And it felt even a little dorky. It was too far. It was too far. I thought you were kind of counterculture, though. I am now counterculture in that. But in high school, no? If getting beat up is counterculture.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Oh. Then I was with counterculture as you could be. That was number one. I was Bob Dylan of counterculture if it was just about getting your head stuck in the toilet. Oh, no. Wow. Yeah. Was it a violent school system in which it didn't feel safe?
Starting point is 00:30:05 You ever see the movie Stand By Me? Yeah. Or lean on me? Yeah, Rob Reiner. Yeah. Delete great. Yeah. It wasn't like that at all.
Starting point is 00:30:14 It wasn't like lard ass when... Nah. I was all right. I was just the poor kid that had the big mouth, and that would get me in trouble. Like, got my head flushed in the toilet. I would just think the Arkadelphia school system might have had it. Well, I'm not from Archadelphia.
Starting point is 00:30:30 Oh, okay, sorry. See? You're just assigning me to do. Don't just assume. I'm from the major metropolitan area of Mountain Pine, Arkansas, right here, population 772. Oh, my God. See my sign? My hometown has that sign up.
Starting point is 00:30:43 That's so cool. Now all the people who put your head in the toilet have to look at that sign. Yeah, at home. When I say musical affirmation, Molly, what comes to mind for you? When did you get the first musical affirmation that you're like, wow, this, whatever this is, I love it. Ooh, musical affirmation. I think, like, when I first would go on stage and just play, I remember I would work on these guitar solos, I would just play the same solo over and over again and practice it and try to work on making it really, you know,
Starting point is 00:31:13 kind of perfecting it and playing something really complicated. I remember going on stage with my dad at this. It was at a music camp he was teaching at, and I had this sort of intricate guitar solo. I was going to play at the student concert, and I played it, and everyone cheered for my solo, and I just remember thinking, that's cool. Like, they recognized this work that I put in,
Starting point is 00:31:32 and I just liked that feeling, and I, you know, kind of liked making people happy with the music, and it was also something that made me feel happy, too, to share it with people. And I remember I had these other kids who I'd play with, and I didn't really know anything. kids at my school who liked bluegrass or were into it. But since my dad was a teacher and he taught kids all over the Bay Area, banjo and fiddle and mandolin, we would get together like other kids my age
Starting point is 00:31:57 and form these little bands. So that's how I started performing. And I think that's kind of where I first felt that sense of affirmation. How many instruments do you play? Can you list them for me? I just, it's a short list, just guitar and banjo. You know play piano? I can, I know how to play some chords. He's better at piano than me. I can just. play like basic chords. I don't think you've ever heard me play. Between the two of us, the list is vast. You're the full Charlie Brown band? He plays a million. Totally. Between the two of us, we could really have a two man, woman band. So you play banjo. Banjo guitar. I can play like a few tunes on the mandolin, only in limited keys, no hard keys, but. When did you know you wanted to do
Starting point is 00:32:38 music with your whole life? That's a commitment to go to music school. I think I was midway through high school and I was really not the best student and all my friends were deciding on colleges and all I wanted to do was play music and that's what I did any chance I got all of my free time on the weekends I was practicing or doing shows, whatever shows I could find. So when I heard about Berkeley College of Music in Boston, heard they had this American Roots program and it was just this very like diverse music school or you could learn any style of music pretty much. And I knew some people who went there and I knew that Boston had this cool scene for my type of music that just really appealed to me. So I went out, went and applied
Starting point is 00:33:18 there. But that was kind of like, it felt like it was my only path I could have taken. Like, it was all I wanted to do. There was not really any question of like, is there a plan B? And also, I saw my dad being a music teacher and kind of, you know, that's how he supported our family. So I knew that if performing didn't work out, I could start teaching and, you know, he would help me figure out how to do that. Did you have to audition? Yeah. And what is that process like? It's scary. I flew out to Boston to audition, and I also wanted to just see the school before going there. My dad came with me, and I played one of my original songs at the time, and then I played something on banjo, and they really liked that I played the banjo because that was
Starting point is 00:33:58 unusual. But I remember just being really nervous. And then I got in, and the worst part after getting in was you kind of have to re-audition, like you do this thing called a ratings audition or rating exam and they rate you in all these different categories like site reading and music theory and technical proficiency. Do you play on a stage in front of people? No, for your audition, you're just in a room with like two teachers. And they're just sitting there with like a not not not pat or something. Probably not clapping or anything. No, not clapping. Definitely not clapping. That feels like it would be intimidating. Yeah. But then for my ratings audition, I went in and it's the same thing. There's like three or four teachers.
Starting point is 00:34:35 They're just staring at you asking you questions. And I came out when I got. the worst possible ratings. I got all ones and it was rated on one to eight. So I just did horrible. Wait, so you get to stay in school if they rate you all ones even after you're already in? Yeah, you just get the most like remedial possible classes after that. Why do they give you ones? I don't know. To this day, I'm like confused. And I have a friend. Were you so advanced they didn't understand it? I don't know. I know that I couldn't cite read and I didn't know any music theory. And then I think the other ones they just saw that I didn't know anything about theory and then they were just like, you know, we're just going to give you all ones in everything.
Starting point is 00:35:16 Did you lose confidence after that or did you just know they didn't know? I was kind of like crushed after that because I didn't know a single other person who got all ones because that was just kind of rare. But now I've met one other person who did and it's Annie Clements who has played with Marin Morris and she's played with so many great acts and I talked. She plays bass, right? Yeah, she plays bass. She's a great bass player and she's the only person I've ever met who also got all ones.
Starting point is 00:35:41 There's a story of Steve Harvey and his teacher told him that he wasn't going to be on TV because he talked too much or was never committed. And so every year he'd send her a television as a Christmas gift because she always told him he'd never make it on television. What are we sending these teachers? I don't know. We should send them a video of me and Eddie. They gave you all ones. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Yeah. Catch, what about you? When did you start as a, when did you start playing music? by yourself or did you form a band early? When I was a kid, I went to see this guy play a concert when I was 12 and it was such a great show, but I didn't really understand it. In fact, I only... That guy for people who aren't watching and just listening, it's Bob Dylan. Oh, yeah, sorry, I'm talking about Bob.
Starting point is 00:36:24 Yeah, of course. And, you know, I went to see the show and I didn't really get it, but I got it. I only understood four words, hey, Mr. tambourine and man. Everything else could have been not even English, and I just wouldn't. But those four words were all I needed, and I was hooked. This happened when I was a kid, and then I went to a fortune teller. As we all do when we're confused.
Starting point is 00:36:51 Yeah, and I had my mom wait out. My mother was such a soldier. You were a kid at a fortune teller? I thought this was like later. No, no, no. This is like. How old are you going to the fortune? About 13.
Starting point is 00:37:01 So I went. Your mom dropped you off. She took me to the Dillon Show. I went in the house of a for, now I'm done with the Bob Dylan thing. Oh, okay. Your mom dropped you off and you went into a fortune teller by yourself? Yeah. How much does that cost?
Starting point is 00:37:13 Oh, probably $10, maybe $15. And what do you ask to fortune teller? It was on the edge of town where all the turkey plants were. It has to be on the edge of town. Never seen one in the middle of town. This ought to be the mountain pine part of the store. Yes, it is. I grew up in a town that had a whole bunch of turkey factories where they slaughtered them and eviscerated them and made the dog food and the cat food and the turkey food.
Starting point is 00:37:30 They do that. And that's where the fortune tellers were. So anyway, they had neon signs, so I knew they were there. Mom dropped me off. I walked in and I, at first I asked like the questions that I thought that a fortune teller would like to answer or was used to answering. When will I lose my virginity? What will my job be? You know, will I be a, will I make money?
Starting point is 00:37:57 Will I live a long life? Got it. But then I really asked the only question I was there to ask. which was, will I meet Bob Dylan? And she scoured this hand and flopped and flipped and then professed, you'll never meet Bob Dylan. And I was crushed. She gave you ones. Yeah, she gave me all ones.
Starting point is 00:38:18 And, you know, when you get the ones, it means you just rise because there's nothing better than a door slammed in your face as far as figuring out how to get in. Did you believe the fortune teller? Oh, and she was right. Yeah. I never met Bob Dylan. No, I know. I just wonder if you believed the fortune teller at 13 or if you thought this was a novelty. And what did your mom tell you about this?
Starting point is 00:38:40 I don't know that I told my mom about what I said with the fortune teller. And mom had recently gotten into therapy and I think that she felt that her children's sort of mental independence and sort of sense of self and ego was a very healthy thing. So mom didn't ask me about what I had talked the fortune teller about. How do you feel about psychics now? I feel pretty uninterested in psychics. But Molly is definitely a little bit more into... I saw one. Well, I was surprised when you said $15 because I just went to see one on tour this fall
Starting point is 00:39:15 and it was also $15. So they haven't really raised their prices. Or, invisible string. Same one. Oh, never raised the rates. Never raised the rates. Oh, my gosh. Never raised the rates.
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Starting point is 00:43:04 Yeah. It's one of those things that there is no way I can possibly prove it's not true. There's no... I can't prove that what they're doing... I can prove probably that there are certain ones that are scamming people. I think we can prove that. But I can't prove that that is not an ability or a special... I don't even want to say...
Starting point is 00:43:26 say talent, a special talent, I can't prove that nobody has it. That's true, because if you see someone, they tell you something that's not true, well, maybe they're just one of the ones that pretends to have it. And I've gone to a couple as, I'm very much a cynic in all facets of life. And I think most people that tell me things like, or I hear stories of like, I died and saw, I saw the yellow light, and I can't prove they're not telling the truth. Now I can often look at them and go, you're full of crap just generally or, you know, you're trying to scam some money. But I can't prove that that hasn't happened to anybody ever.
Starting point is 00:44:03 I feel the same way with psychics. I cannot prove it's not true. I've met a couple that I believe are A plus humans. And either I believe in them and they believe it. So I go, maybe so. But I definitely would not tell someone that psychics aren't real. Now, do I believe they're real? Nah, but not no.
Starting point is 00:44:27 And there's a difference. Yeah, that's how I feel too about that. And I feel that way about ghosts. Like, I've never seen one and I can't disprove it. Don't give me start of aliens and dimensions. We'll be here for two hours before talking about other dimensions and aliens. Are you nah, but not no? With aliens and dimensions?
Starting point is 00:44:43 I feel like aliens must exist. For sure, yeah. Oh, you're into it. Well, there's just been so much that they've been slow rolling us, especially in the last couple of years. I like this part of the podcast. Well, they're rolling it out. They're rolling it out. There are certain things, and this is kind of a place that I go and I tend to make everybody roll their eyes in the back of their head.
Starting point is 00:45:02 There are these entities that we have recordings of that are going so fast with no heat signature at all. We do not have the ability. We don't possess the science to have something move that fast with no heat signature at all. the propulsion to move left, right, up, down. So do I believe things are being kept from us? Absolutely. Would I think they're little green men coming from above? I don't think so.
Starting point is 00:45:33 Maybe from the ocean. We don't even know what's down there. Yeah, true. We have mapped more of general space than we have the ocean, and we're here with that. But then also dimensionally, to me, what we see is, let's say this show is on Netflix, right? let's say we're watching Stranger Things. At the same exact time, orange is the new black is on over here.
Starting point is 00:45:54 Now we're not watching it because our frequency is on Stranger Things inside that streaming platform. There are 5,000 other shows over here that we can't see because right now we're dialed into this one. And I kind of feel that way about where we are now. Like we can see certain. Even on the molecular level of animals can see colors because they have different cones in their eyes
Starting point is 00:46:16 that we can't see. Just because we can't see it. feel it doesn't mean it's not here. And so, yeah, that, and I could do that for a while, and I could also do simulation theory where I think that even if you just believe, even if you're a Christian, you believe in heaven, and that you start there, you come down here, you do a little dance here, just try to get back there. That's a version of simulation theory. Right.
Starting point is 00:46:35 So when people go, simulation theory, that sounds like robots or Commodore 64, Oregon Trail back in the day. I go, the word possibly does. But in theory, there are many things that people accept that would be considered simulation theory. And one of them, the one that I can mostly preach to my friends is, if you believe we started from beyond,
Starting point is 00:46:59 and you believe heaven, earth, that we start there, we come here, we live alive, hopefully we get to go back there. This is a temporary organic being we're in to try to get our way back there.
Starting point is 00:47:09 And they go, oh, maybe you're on to something. Anyway, so how about that music, huh? Her little side. So you went to a psychic, huh? I did, yeah. I was on tour.
Starting point is 00:47:19 I was just wandering around Winston, Salem, North Carolina this fall. And I've never actually been. I don't think I'd ever gone to a psychic, except I have this one friend from high school who is psychic. And she reads tarot cards. So she's done that, especially during the pandemic. When we started dating, she was always reading my tarot cards and being like, I have a good feeling about this. That was one of the ways I kind of, you know, was like, okay, I'm going to at least give it a try when we were starting to date. The tarot cards got you.
Starting point is 00:47:46 The tarot cards got us. is definitely... Shout up to Marissa. Yeah, she's like a legit witch. I feel that psychic is almost like saying alien and little green men because I don't know that all psychics, just a term we associate with having some sort of ability to see and feel things that maybe other people can't tune into, right?
Starting point is 00:48:03 And I'm not a woo-woo-wah-wa guy at all, but I do think people possess different ways to interpret, just general interpretation of things around us. Psychic is the word we say when, there are other terms, clairvoyant, mediums. Yeah, so when you went to yours, it's not really yours, but the one you went to, did you feel like a thing? Well, she told me I was going to be one of the most powerful witches of all time. Witches?
Starting point is 00:48:31 Are you a witch? She said, I don't think of myself as necessarily a witch. That's not a bad word. Go on. But anyway, she was like, but she said I only had until my next birthday, which is actually today, is my first. birthday. Wait, literally today's your birthday? She said if I didn't figure out my witch powers before today, then I wasn't going to
Starting point is 00:48:51 actually become a witch, and I don't think I've figured anything out. You're doing this on your birthday? Now I feel guilty that you're here on your birthday. No, this is the best way to spend my birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. That's awesome. Holy crap.
Starting point is 00:49:03 So this is my last chance. But I didn't really figure out. She said I need to figure out my whole, like. You got until midnight then? Can I suggest something? Can I throw something out of that you? What if your powers are your music? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:14 Like literally music comes. or just any sort of art or interpretation in art. Like some people just have the innate ability to do that on a much more natural level. Some people, I feel like I have to grind to get mine. Like, I don't, like I'm not naturally that. I think I grit my teeth until I figure it out. And I'm not sure your story. I can't be in your bodies.
Starting point is 00:49:39 But what if like our magic is like the art we create? Yeah. That's kind of like. And you are a witch. I feel like that's how I think of it, a guitar witch. They got ones. They got ones. That's crazy.
Starting point is 00:49:51 That's, because I've seen you play. I think they're jealous. I was just running on like spite from the ones for a while. You know, it kind of feels that you're like, I don't feel for them wrong. No, not really. I just think it's funny at this point. I'm a little bothered for you. Let me, I'll take that on for you.
Starting point is 00:50:08 I kind of like, I see where I got the ones from because they were asking me things like play a mixolydian scale. And I was like, I've never heard that. a single time in my life. When you get to Berkeley, did you find people like you? Yeah. Like for the first time, like really like you? Yeah, it was really cool because I just found this. I just, like, clicked into this group of people who loved, like, bluegrass music and
Starting point is 00:50:32 roots music and old time and were just totally focused on, like, learning and practicing. And it was so cool. Like, I felt like I was at Hogwarts or something because it was just this magical experience where I got to solely focus on music for, I was there just two and a half years, and it was so much fun. But I played all over Boston. They were bars that had weekly bluegrass bands playing at them. The Cantab Lounge was one where every Tuesday bluegrass night would happen, and I would play at that. And these other historic folk clubs like this club, Club Passim, where Bob Dylan played and Joan Baez played.
Starting point is 00:51:07 We would do shows there. And it was just really cool. I felt like I instantly made friends. And I had this group of people who we were always having these fun. on parties and just playing music together. Okay, two Bob Dylan references, so I'm going to go to it now. You said you hadn't met him yet. I think most casuals would know Wagon Wheel.
Starting point is 00:51:26 I don't think I've ever asked you like the actual story of that song. Like how you, can I tell you the version that I have in my head that may be wrong? Yeah, sure. You found out this is going to be wrong, but this is just what I've picked up. Sounds like you might be right. Okay, you found an old CD or tape. Correct. with a partial version of Bob Dylan singing Wagon Wheel,
Starting point is 00:51:47 and you thought, I'm going to finish this. You got it. So tell me the real version. Well, my sort of coming of age experience was when I opened up my case on a street corner for the first time and realized, oh, my God, I don't need a stage, I don't need a venue, I'll just do it right here on the curb. That really opened a whole world of performance to me. And we had these sidewalk preachers in my town, you know, that would stand up on a crate and, you know, proselytize. So I saw it like that.
Starting point is 00:52:20 And anyway, it just, it was real clear to me when I opened up my case that I was a performer. And I needed songs. And I, so I learned as many songs as I could all through my teenage years. But I also wrote songs. I'm telling you this because if I hadn't have been a songwriter in my teenage years, you know, I wouldn't have messed with this thing. I was already in the habit of rewriting music. You know, like the first song I ever wrote, like, you know, was a new version of the Lord's Prayer to music.
Starting point is 00:52:51 And then a lot of political things that I would read. The Declaration or the Pledge of Allegiance. So you would put melodies behind, Our Father, who are in heaven, hello be thy name. Yeah. So you were totally. Really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:05 Got it. Anything that was like scripty that, you know, had a cadence to it, put it to music. And I'd take a little, my mother was pissed about this, but I put Sharpie on the keys. And then I write them up there, so like triangle. This was like basic shape note. I also went to a shape note singing class when I was a kid at the Chautauqua Institute, which is up around Buffalo, New York.
Starting point is 00:53:28 Anyway, I was into music. I was into Bob Dylan, and those rivers converged. And this confluence was hearing finally this unfinished Bob Dylan. masterpiece. It was like nobody had heard it yet. How? On what? It was on CD, and it had been purchased by my friend at the Virgin Megastore in London, England, and then sent to me dubbed form on cassette via the U.S. mail. When he bought that on CD, though, what was the CD?
Starting point is 00:54:00 Well, remember back in the day when bootleg CDs could be purchased in large urban areas, in huge crates by people that were selling like $25, $50 for a double album. And it was a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of Grateful Dead, and, you know, Tom Petty and Bruce and people like that. So a lot of Bob Dylan bootlegs were moving around through the early 90s. My buddy heard one, send it to me, I heard this song. It was an outtake from a film called Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, a movie that Chris Christofferson was in. and was made in Durango, Mexico in 73 or 4 or 2. And I'm convinced, Bobby, that Bob Dylan was playing this song, Rock Me Mama, like a wagon wheel.
Starting point is 00:54:51 And then he put his guitar down and thought, nah, I can do better than that. And he began to write a new song, which was very similar based on this song, a song that went, Mama take this badge off of me. Mama take this. Yeah, yeah. I never thought about those being similar. Well, they were written in the same week. So anyway, I finished the song.
Starting point is 00:55:14 I wrote it. It was good. It was instantly memorable to me. It was real autobiographical because as soon as I left high school, I moved to North Carolina. The whole song's about leaving New Hampshire and moving to, you know, I didn't put Greensboro into it because I put Raleigh because of Sir Walter Raleigh. And that last line at the end, at least I will die free if I get to Raleigh.
Starting point is 00:55:36 That's the state motto of New Hampshire, live free or die. So again, with the, I just took the language around me and I funneled it into the songs that I was writing at the time. So were you just playing that song on the corner over and over again? Did you feel like you had something there, something good? Every time I'd played on the curb, I'd get tipped. It was like magic, you know? So did you keep that in your back pocket for when you got, you started? playing with the band? Well, then I started playing with the band, but we were so motivated by these
Starting point is 00:56:07 American traditions that playing original music wasn't really our thing. So I just kept it like saved my back pocket. Then we moved to Nashville about 1999, 2000, 2001 in that time. And then, you know, they were like, well, you guys are really fun and interesting and visual and, um, but, uh, your material, it's all raving old time music from the 20s and 30s. What, you know, do you got that snoo because Nashville, Tennessee, you need new songs. You don't play old shit. So what do you got? I mean, you can play some old songs, but this is a place for songwriters. And I was like, well, I got this one song. And it was great. We played it right away. And people, you know, we got an agent right away and then a manager. It opened up a lot of
Starting point is 00:56:52 doors. That song did. That song did. I can remember, I know the video. I've seen the video 10,000 times. Like, it's one of the first YouTube music videos that I remember seeing. Oh, yeah. When YouTube, like, so you guys recorded the video. It's active. It's outside a lot, right? Yeah, it's at a carnival. That's what it is, yeah. Yeah, it's got burlesque dancers and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are in it. Gillian Welch is in it? She's in the video. She's the through line of this whole interview, too.
Starting point is 00:57:16 This is great. So that song, did it open doors up for, did it continue to open doors up for you guys for years? Yeah, it's sort of been a, um, it's sort of been a, um, it's, a story of a song opening up doors for this, for my band and my career, my whole life. And Bob Dylan never reached out? Well, about 15 years into the story, Bob Dylan reached out through his manager and said, Bob's so pleased with Wagon Wheel that he wants catch to have another of Bob Dylan's castaway songs. So here it is.
Starting point is 00:57:54 So I wrote that song. rewrote it. And then we made a slick video and it was our most top charting country thing of all time, you know, like it did good. Like I think we were in the crack the top 20 in the first week of, you know, contemporary country music. But this was like 2013 or something. He never met him. And no, and after that, like, you know, just little, I sure have thought about him. Open the door. Bring a man, Bob. Yeah. That would be good. That would have been great, huh?
Starting point is 00:58:27 You are a male witch. That would have been great. No, no, really, that would have been great, though, I wish. I feel like you are going to meet him, though. You're honing in on it. Do you want to meet him at this point? You know, when I was young, I met Ozzie Smith, who is my other hero. St. Louis Cardinal Shortstop.
Starting point is 00:58:44 We did backflip. Him doing backflips before a game going at a shortstop was one of the coolest. And I'm a Cubs fan, and that was one of the coolest things I'd ever seen. So great. Yeah. And how was he? He was pretty scary. I mean, I met him when I was 10 at a baseball stadium.
Starting point is 00:58:58 And, you know, he was gruff. But, I mean, he was beautiful. God, I mean, he's still alive and active. And he's a national treasure. Was he nice to you? He was nice enough. He wasn't, you know, callous or nothing. But he was gruff.
Starting point is 00:59:14 But I liked that. And he made my life. But they say, don't meet your heroes. and I met Ozzie and there was something radiant about him. So I feel like I've already met the hero. And so if I were to meet Bob and I just wouldn't want to have a bad experience. But I tell you, my friend met Bob, a band made of mine. He was out for, because the Mumford Boys, who we did a lot of work with,
Starting point is 00:59:42 Mumford and Sons was on the Grammys one year. And Bob Dylan was going to do a mash-up. And so they were in these rehearsals. and my buddy was sitting there on the couch. And Bob Dylan walks in and sits on the couch right across from him. And T-Bone's there, and we had just done this record with T-Bone of this project, and T-Bone's talking with Gil, my friend. He's like, oh, yeah, you know, Old Crow is back in the studio again.
Starting point is 01:00:06 And Bob Dylan turns around and says, O'Crow? And Gil says, yeah, have you heard of us? And Bob says, you guys are killing it. That's all I got. But that was enough for me. Like, I don't want to, I just wouldn't want to mess with the magic. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor. Pride is like love.
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Starting point is 01:03:44 Listen to learning to be human on IHad Radio, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. And we're back on the Bobbycast. How did the writing? How was that class? Is it you and Bob? Is it co-op? Bob Dylan and Ketch. Yeah, it's a Ketch.
Starting point is 01:04:08 C-Corps. right 50-50 down the middle. And you know what's fascinating, Bobby? Is that after the after the after the after we agreed on that co-writing split the manager said now Bob has agreed to 50-50 see Corr Dylan, but he'd like catch to know that Bob Dylan he says he did not write that song. He learned it from Arthur crud up. Was it so old though that it was public domain? Well, we I listened to Arthur crud up song rock me mama. The song was called rock me mom when Bob recorded. it. So Rock Me Mama, it's like, Rock me Mama, do, do, dun, dun, Rock me all night, that kind of thing. Memphis Guy, he wrote, well, that's all right, mama, for Elvis.
Starting point is 01:04:50 Right, so this guy, big boy Crotup was his name. But in the liner notes to the Rock Me Mama, to this album that had Arthur Crudup's Rock Me Mama on it, Arthur says, he didn't write Rock Me Mama. He learned it from Big Bill Brunsie.
Starting point is 01:05:06 So now we're back to the 20s. See, Arthur The crowdups from the 50s, but he learns it from this guy from the 20s, Big Bill Bruins. He's part of the great migration. It comes up from Mississippi and Chicago. And his song, Rock Me Mama, starts there. So if you believe it, then, you know, that's 1920 to Darius hearing it at his, like, daughters, you know, high school ukulele concert in, you know, 2010.
Starting point is 01:05:31 I mean, it's like 90 years for that song to finally reach the person that was going to go get it out there into the world in such a unique, powerful way. Yeah, a different boom when Darius did it. Yeah. I bet you killed on that, didn't you? You mean Doe-wise? I'm talking Doe. I bet you're killed.
Starting point is 01:05:49 That's awesome. Yeah, I need to get me a sign like this. Get your sign? It says Hunt Boyhood home? Yes, sir. Yeah, that's really cool. I only knew a version, like a very general version of that story. That's crazy that you kept tracking it back.
Starting point is 01:06:02 Yeah. True, true, you know. So I don't know about it. aliens or spells and conjuring, but I know that there is magic in this world because rock me mama like a wagon wheel is a spell. Why'd you move to Nashville, Molly? I moved here after Boston. I was hanging out there and then all my friends were either moving to New York or Nashville.
Starting point is 01:06:28 And I just like ever, like even when I started at music college, I just assumed I would move to Nashville because all the music I listened to all my favorite. artists live there and I just thought it would be so cool to get to meet my heroes and maybe do things like play on the Grand Alopry, which was like a dream come true when it finally happened. So I moved to Nashville in the spring of 2015, so now I'm like going into my 11th year here. And yeah, I lived in Madison at first and I felt really far away from everything. I was like deep in Madison living in this basement. and that was kind of like, I struggled to find friends.
Starting point is 01:07:07 I didn't actually really know anyone that well. I thought I knew all these people, but they were just kind of acquaintances. And I moved to Nashville and I was like, what am I doing? Like, I don't know. I don't even know what to do with myself. I didn't really have an agent or any gigs to speak of. I was kind of trying to put together money to just fund, like, recording a few of my songs to make an EP. And then I just sort of kept plowing ahead.
Starting point is 01:07:29 And then after about a year, I moved to, um, to, house in East Nashville, and that's where I met Billy Strings. I was actually his roommate for like a year and a half. I lived with him and his girlfriend and now wife, Ali. Would you guys just play music all the time? It was, people always ask me that. And we did, like when everyone was around. We also had neighbors across the street. This woman, Lindsay Lou, lived there, and she's a great singer and songwriter and plays guitar and bass. And she would have these big jam sessions and host house concerts. So a lot of the music was centered around her house. Billy was playing like over 200 shows a year and he was just gone all the time. It was
Starting point is 01:08:06 really inspiring to see how hard he was working. I think he said once he told his agents just booked me as many shows as you possibly can. And I was also playing a lot. So sometimes we one of us would get home and just like crash for a few days and like not even really do anything. But we did definitely play music and it was just a really fun street to live on because there was always something going on, always like people coming through town and staying with one of the houses. There were kind of two music houses, there's ours and one across the street. So yeah, that's kind of how I found my group. I felt like I found my people and that just made it so much, felt like Nashville kind of opened up then after about a year. But at first it was really intimidating. Have you felt both
Starting point is 01:08:47 of you in the last five years? Because if I were going to pinpoint it, I'd say around five years for me is when bluegrass really started trickling and then flowing into mainstream more. Have you has felt that in the last few years? Yeah, I would say like I think the pandemic, like you were saying the last five years or so coming out of the pandemic, I just noticed this big boom and playing shows before everything shut down because of COVID. And then after it was kind of like night and day, like just the different, there were just like all different kinds of people coming out to the shows, bigger shows and the audience was just growing and growing. So that's been really cool to see. And I feel like Billy's been such a huge part of that, like just going.
Starting point is 01:09:29 to his shows here in Nashville, he'll be playing sold-out shows at Bridgestone Arena and just seeing like 10,000 people singing along with like a Bill Monroe song from the 1950s. It's so cool. How do you feel about that? You know, it's a really amazing power that American music traditions have of coming back up, bubbling back up to the surface again. And I agree it's happening right now very much so. but it happens all through the course of, you know, American popular music. Like starting in Nashville, you know, we talk a lot about the outlaw movement.
Starting point is 01:10:06 You know, that is a return to roots and basics. The neo-traditionalist movement of the 80s with artists like Randy Travis and, you know, Susie Bogus, that's about getting back to just about the song. It's not about the production values anymore. Let's simplify. And that simplification is something that country music's always going to be interested in doing because we're always looking back and making sure that we did right by our raisin. You know, we're trying to look to our elders in this genre and be both, you know,
Starting point is 01:10:42 present in these times and looking forward, but also are we doing right to old grandpa and grandma? Would the elders look upon us and still dig this? there's just a through line of tradition here. And I think the guy that really, one way of looking at it is Roy Acuff, who says that what makes country music so unique is that it's not a learned art form, it's an inherited one. So I think with that inheritance, there comes something. There's a responsibility to it. And traditional American music is always going to find a way because it's so elemental.
Starting point is 01:11:20 You know, it's black, white, brown. It is, you know, a common denominator. It's a set of chords. It's an instrumentation. It's a sound. And everything's built on it. All these records on the wall are, you know, related to the past because of its power. One other thing he told me when I saw him a couple weeks ago is just coming to my head now because we talked for a while.
Starting point is 01:11:44 All I remember is he had a bunch of goo on his face. So now you admit you saw the goo. He said, uh, he was bragging on you and he said, just got engaged, she's up for two Grammys. Oh. He said, yeah, that's what he, that's... It was so exciting this fall because I found out about the Grammys and then we got engaged.
Starting point is 01:12:03 I was like, I don't know which one I'm more excited about. Come on, you know which one. That's all hat. The Grammy's put out. I know the Grammys. No, just kidding. She's been, this gal's been winning Grammys left and right. And my kids like to tease me because...
Starting point is 01:12:18 They say it took me less time to... Because we both have two Grammys to brag about. She has two Grammys. But it took me like two decades to get my two Grammys. She's just like, bloop, bloop. She's just pulling them off the Grammy tree. And they said, Dad, why did it take you so long to get two Grammys? What is your answer to that question?
Starting point is 01:12:36 We called them at the Grammys and they're like roasting him over the phone. They're at an age. And Bobby, you'll know what I'm talking about when your child is roasting you. I see you've got a lot of awards up here. It won't be enough for your child. I don't know if they'll ever will be. enough for a child, you know, because they know you. They're going to be judging you.
Starting point is 01:12:55 More than any, yeah. When you did Kimmel, and now I'm thinking back of, like, it's not an acceptance from mainstream. I think it's mainstream understanding it. Bluegrass, I'm intimidated by it because just looking, because, again, I have very general music skills. I can play some chords. I bought a chord sheet from Walmart.
Starting point is 01:13:12 I learned to play chords so I could do comedy with music. So I know the CG, D, D, Mide, like, I can do all the generals. So then I can under, I. I can understand enough because I perform, but when I watch you guys play banjo, mandolin, even guitar, bluegrass style, it's so fast. It is so fast. And that is extremely intimidating. And so to watch that, you're like, wow, it's like watching a dentist. Like I said, the two things that freak me out are dentists and bluegrass players.
Starting point is 01:13:39 But with like going on Kimmel, that's mainstream starting to have an understanding of how dynamic it is that what you do. What was that experience like there in Los Angeles playing Kimmel? Yeah, it was cool because, I mean, I was so excited about it. I'd done it once before, like two years ago I went on and played a song, and I was so nervous because it was the first ever time I'd really been on, especially late night. I hadn't really done much TV. And so coming back and doing it a second time, I kind of knew what to expect,
Starting point is 01:14:09 and I was able to just calm the nerves a little bit more and just sort of have fun. So it was great. Their whole team was awesome. It was very relaxed pace. We recorded it in the afternoon, and we got to come back and watch the taping of the rest of the show. So, yeah, I had a great time, and it was just cool to hear from, like, my mom was like, oh, my neighbors are tuning in and just stuff like that.
Starting point is 01:14:32 Like, people back home are watching. Well, I apologize for not knowing you wrong the first time. Oh, well, no worries. The last time I was like, Marley's on Kimmel, that's crazy. I didn't know it was old hat to you by then. Oh, yeah, just old Kimmel, no. No, it was so exciting. Do you feel like with, again, I would say the last five years I've started
Starting point is 01:14:48 to feel bluegrass just in general musical society, right? I don't feel like I have to chase it down to find it. I feel like it just exists in spaces. With your last record, do you feel like you can easily incorporate more non-traditional bluegrass into your record because people are accepting it? So I don't know, it feels like, because when I listen to your last album, so long, Little Miss Sunshine. Yes. I love the movie, Little Miss Sunshine.
Starting point is 01:15:16 I get those confused. Yeah. Do you feel like that you have the liberties to incorporate things that aren't just bluegrass? Yeah, that's kind of what I was hoping to do with that record and still kind of keeping those bluegrass elements of my flat-picking guitar and like catch-played a bunch of banjo and fiddle and mandolin and but then just kind of infusing it with all these different sounds and Jay Joyce, who produced the album, was fun to work with because he just was seeing it from this totally other perspective and adding so many cool sounds. So I was happy with how it turned out. And my last couple records before that, I really wanted to keep in that bluegrass tradition and, you know, maybe stretch the boundaries a little bit, but not play with it too much.
Starting point is 01:15:55 So it was fun on this last record to just, like, try something new and try out these different sounds. But, yeah, I think, like, it's funny because in the bluegrass world, they're a little more closed. Like, I've heard from people who mainly exclusively listen to Bluegrass that they think my record is just not Bluegrass at all. but then people outside of bluegrass, call it bluegrass. So that's something I've always sort of ran into. It's tremendously bluegrass to me. Yeah. But not so fundamentally bluegrass that I feel uncomfortable.
Starting point is 01:16:28 Right. If that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, it's not like going to the dentist, exactly. Correct. But it's like going to the, I don't know what. Just walk by the room. I walk in the room because I'm not scared of it.
Starting point is 01:16:38 Okay. The last thing I want to talk about. We mentioned heroes earlier. I know you're going out with Marty Stewart. Yes. And you're touring there. I'm so excited. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:46 And you got first name. It's Molly and Marty. He made that poster. He made that tour name and then he put my name first, which was so nice of him. So what is that? I would definitely put his name before. What's that show going to be like? Well, I saw him last week.
Starting point is 01:17:01 We were both teaching out of camp and we were just kind of talking because we haven't exactly figured out what we're going to do. I'm bringing out kind of an acoustic trio for my set. And then he'll have his fabulous superlatives with him. And I love his band so much. So I'm hoping we can do a lot of close. collaboration. But it's going to be fun. Like the winner is sort of the more slow period for touring. So I'm excited to go out with Marty and just see what we can do. And we're doing two weekends in February. But I've never actually gotten to play with him before. So I'm so excited because he kind of weaves in his mandolin playing in that bluegrass and just takes it in a totally other direction with his band. And I love his guitar player. Kenny Vaughn. He's one of the best. I used to go all ways. I would try to go see him at his weekly shows. around town in Nashville.
Starting point is 01:17:46 So I hope that we can have some guitar battles. That's cool. Yeah. That you can even go out like to, I can't battle. I'm not proficient enough at anything to battle anybody in anything. Just generally speaking. I'd love to, do you ever have openers? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:18:01 Oh, are you like trying to get gakes right now? You're too good. No, you know what? I want to see your show real bad. But I'm not already on the opera. I'm not touring at all now. I did a special last year and CMT picked it up, a comedy special. You won't do any hard tickets.
Starting point is 01:18:15 this year? I don't have any plans to. Oh. Well, I did my special and I was like, I did this. It was cool. I toured it. The theaters all over America and recorded it. Then somebody bought it. And I thought, man, I'm good. That's great. This year, I'm producing a baby. Oh, that's a big job. Well, in the next couple years, I'm just excited about when you get back to the stage. Yeah, we want to come see your show. Because we want to come see the show. Well, enough about me. If you want to get tickets to Molly and Marty, you can go. to molly tutelmusec.com and get tickets to the show. Are you guys playing Nashville at all? No, or not.
Starting point is 01:18:50 I get why not because I love living here. I hate playing here because it's like a big, long meet and greet. Because everybody comes, and then you feel like everybody's judging you. I get so nervous when I play in Nashville. Me too. I'm going to let out manned securities here. It's so scary. It's so stressful.
Starting point is 01:19:05 It's always that way. There's a lot of people before you have to talk to. Everybody from the industry comes to see if you suck. You don't get in your headspace. You don't have your normal routine. New York, London, L.A., Nashville. L.A. is scary. And Austin.
Starting point is 01:19:15 And Austin. There's this pressure like you're supposed to be really good in these towns, but you can suck in Peoria and nobody will care. They think it's the greatest thing you've ever seen. When I go to North Dakota, I'm the king. I love playing in North Dakota. Me, too. Yeah. Yeah, it was awesome.
Starting point is 01:19:32 Okay, last thing. We're talking about heroes. That's why I remember to talk about Marty. You haven't met Bob Dylan. What hero have you met? I'm going to ask you guys both this question. What hero have you met and what hero have you not met? You got Bob, who you haven't?
Starting point is 01:19:44 Who have you met? Merle. Tell me about it. Marty is a friend of mine, and Marty was a real discoverer of my band Old Crow and brought me under his great big hillbilly wings and just made me feel like I belonged to Nashville. Marty Stewart did that for me. And one of the ways he did it was taking me out on the road with Merle Haggard, who was the headliner on this tour sponsored by the Waffle House, and this was back in the early aughts. You know, a Waffle House tour. They got their money's worth on that sponsorship. You're hitting them up in 2026, yeah. Man, I mean, it was just enough how many ways we got to have our hash browns on that tour.
Starting point is 01:20:24 I love their hash browns. Me too. They were shocked. In Arcadelfia, I did it every morning. I bet you did. Well, late night morning, yeah, yeah, yeah. I just love, yeah. So you have met.
Starting point is 01:20:35 Yeah. Merle. Met Merle. You haven't met Bob. Correct. Who have you not met, Molly? I was trying to think about this. And who have you met?
Starting point is 01:20:42 You can lead with, or I can tell, I can tell my story while you think of yours. Okay, I'll think of my who haven't I met. Who I haven't met is my number one all-time hero, David Letterman. Oh. Not met him. Oh. And I don't live in the world of worried that people aren't nice. I just expect nobody to be nice.
Starting point is 01:21:00 Therefore, I'm not disappointed. Right. That's a good way to. He's a good way to. He's my hero. He seems nice. I saw him as a kid and thought he looks different than everybody else, even a bit awkward. and that was me, and he was from the Midwest.
Starting point is 01:21:14 Everything about him said, you don't have to look or sound or be like everybody else to be somebody in that space. And I would watch when it was on NBC before I went to CBS. Like, I wouldn't even know what I was watching, and I would stay up late and watch Letterman every night. And so Letterman is the hero that I haven't met. He's my number one all-time hero.
Starting point is 01:21:34 I haven't met him. My musical hero, I have met like two years ago. And I'm not going to tell you who it is yet, but I'll tell you a story. I was nervous about meeting him only because the first time I was meeting, well, he was playing a show in town first and I refused to do a mean-and-grate because I had heard he wasn't super nice. Not that he was mean, and I just didn't want to. And also, I don't, I'm jaded in that way. So I was like, you know, I'll just go to the show.
Starting point is 01:21:58 I did go to the show, but I did not want to meet him. And also, meet and greets are weird. Sometimes the artist has plenty of time. Sometimes the artist doesn't. And they're humans with awesome days, bad days, et cetera. I'm going to pass on that. I go to the show, have a great time. A year and a half or so later, I got a call,
Starting point is 01:22:15 hey, would you like to have so-and-so on your show? And I'm like, absolutely. Very low expectation. Because even the interviews that I had seen this person do weren't great, didn't offer a lot in the interviews. But it didn't matter. So it over to me, I'm going to take it. He comes to the studio, sits for an hour,
Starting point is 01:22:33 was the most generous with his stories, was so great. And he said to me during the interview, You didn't come to the meet and greet. Oh, he was waiting for you. And I said, I did, and I'll tell you why. And he said, I get it. I understand that completely. And since then, I wouldn't say we're friends, but we definitely, we communicate a little, you know, through text.
Starting point is 01:22:54 It's Adam Durrett's counting crows. Nice. Wow, wouldn't I guess that. And it's my favorite band ever. And so I had a very low expectation, and it was met really high. And also, I don't like push them. I'm like, let's hang out, buddy. Because then eventually all humans are human and you'll be like,
Starting point is 01:23:10 guy the dude sucks, but I don't want that. So I love him. He's been so awesome, and he's been on the show a couple times, and I go when he's in town. So let her men know, Duritz, yes. Okay, Molly. Okay, I've thought about mine. I think one hero who I got to meet briefly a couple years ago, which was my all-time made me so excited was Joni Mitchell.
Starting point is 01:23:29 I met her backstage at the Grammys. I got to announce her Grammy Award. And so right before I was going out to announce she was up for Best Folk album, and Ketch was always... also up for that award. I was competing with Joni Mitchell and my girlfriend was reading the name. So I felt kind of bad because I was like rude. I didn't want to root against you, but I was like, it's Joni Mitchell.
Starting point is 01:23:50 She was definitely rooting against me. Did Johnny win? Of course. She said, yeah. So I got to say hi to her right before and I was like, I'm going to announce your award. She's the one. I just absolutely love her and I learned so much from her guitar playing. I think she's so like, I mean, she's definitely people hold her in such high regard as a guitar player,
Starting point is 01:24:09 but I still think she's underrated because she is just so amazing as well as her songwriting and singing. But it was really cool to meet her and she was just super nice, although it was like super brief and then I just handed her the Grammy. I was like, yay.
Starting point is 01:24:22 Do you have a picture of you two together? I do and I have like a whole video of it. I should print out a picture because that was a cool moment. And then someone who I haven't met who I've been thinking about this last like year or so that I really want to meet her because she's from the same,
Starting point is 01:24:36 she grew up in the same town as me, Palo Alto, is Joan Baez. And I feel like I just know so many people who know her or encountered her in the Bay Area. And she's someone I've never met. But I really want to because my mom saw her in a shoe store like six months ago. And she just sees her like around town. I'm like, I need to meet her. She seems like she is awesome and also takes no crap.
Starting point is 01:24:58 Yeah. Still. And that's really cool. Yeah. She seems like a really cool person. What's the instrument that Joni Mitchell plays that's like flat? Oh, the dulcimer, mountain dulcimer. That thing.
Starting point is 01:25:08 I'm intimidated by that. The dentist, bluegrass, and dulcimmers. Those three intimidate the crap out of the door. That one is not, you shouldn't be intimidated by it. It looks intimidating. It could just say, welcome to the boyhood home of Bobby Bones, Dolsomer Master. It's not a hard instrument.
Starting point is 01:25:25 You should incorporate it. It's an easy instrument. You just go like this. It's just a rhythm. Okay, says people that are really great music. You play it with a stick. Do you know the County Crow song that is a Johnny Mitchell song? A little trivia before we leave.
Starting point is 01:25:37 Johnny Mitchell made it a massive hit. Counting Crows then had a song. Oh, Big Yellow Taxi, of course. In the Vanessa Carlton, yeah. Don't you know, it seemed to go. Right. But you don't know what you got. He had a great version of that.
Starting point is 01:25:47 He did, yeah. And Mr. Jones, I mean, I'm with you on Counting Crows. You went Mr. Jones. Huh? Mr. Jones. That's like their biggest song. That means you like somebody's biggest song. That'd be like, I'm a huge old crow fan.
Starting point is 01:25:58 I love Wagon Wheel. That's cool with me. Yeah, but you'd know they're just kind of casuals. I knew Big Yellow taxi. Yeah, you did. No, I'm not calling you a casual. You just went right to Mr. Jones. Okay, that'll do it.
Starting point is 01:26:10 It's because he says, I want to be Bob Dylan. It's something that I have in common with that. Okay, so now you're like getting in, now you can like name the lyrics. So you're getting a little more credit. Do you know what, okay, let's go. We're all connected here. Do you know what Darius song says that Bob Dylan's cool? Yeah, it's, I only want to be with you.
Starting point is 01:26:29 He got sued for that one. Hey, and Bobby's so cool. And I text to Derek, I was like, what's that mean? He goes, Bob Dylan, duh. Wow. Who got sued? She was married when he first met. I mean, he took it straight out of Tangled Up and Blue.
Starting point is 01:26:41 I think he even says, Tangled up and Blue, only one of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That was a big lawsuit in the 90s for that one. I don't know how to steal better than that. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 01:26:53 He's basically calling out the guy. Happy birthday. Thank you. That's, oh, man. This has been super fun for me. Thank you guys both for coming up. Thanks for having us. I'm fans of both of you for different reasons.
Starting point is 01:27:04 And now, yeah, you know what? I co-sign. Marrier He brought you here We haven't even recording Have you ever officiated a wedding before? You don't want me to do that
Starting point is 01:27:16 No, don't gasp There's no chance That was gaspable Well, you said you co-signed it So would you like actually, you know Do you know where you're getting married? If you haven't said it yet, don't ask We don't know
Starting point is 01:27:28 We don't know when we're not worried about it Well Do you know when you're getting married? We don't know that either We're basically We're newly engaged And we like it that way What happens
Starting point is 01:27:37 We're calling around And our schedules are so loose anyway that we're... Show him the ring. It catches great, great grandmother's ring. Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool. That's cool.
Starting point is 01:27:48 The ring was so, I was so surprised. I was like, you kept this a secret? Because he's had it this whole time. Did you keep it a secret, like, hidden on you when you guys were... Because he said, were you at the Redwoods? Yeah. Things are coming in online from the conversation now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'm telling you, I'm not exactly surprised.
Starting point is 01:28:04 I'm not exactly surprised because you can rattle off a lot of reparations. know each other. Not really. I met you one time. No, that's not true. So I met you at the Opry. We've talked to the Opry. You've been on my show.
Starting point is 01:28:14 I met you twice. No, that's not true. Three times. And also my co-hosts lived next door to you. We have an invisible string with us too, okay? So don't act like we just met for the first time. Don't act like you don't know, Bob. I just, I'm understanding now why I was so revealing to you when I saw you.
Starting point is 01:28:33 I was just so taken that you came out to see my Christmas album release in store. That was a real... But I like you guys and I was over there and I was like, I'm going to hop in there and watch this and then it turns out I was an hour early. Yeah. And that's why I told you my whole life story and my... You really opened the flood.
Starting point is 01:28:51 My love story. Yeah, I might have wept a little bit. I'm not sure how far I went, but I'm glad we're friends and I'm so glad we got to be on your show. And it's inaugural season. Yes. I know. This is...
Starting point is 01:29:03 Fair enough. Thank you guys for coming by. Yeah, this is wonderful. You guys are both amazing. much success to both of you in life and in career. And I don't know, that's all I have to say. Thank you, guys. Make me goodbye.
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