So Long Little Miss Sunshine

Composing twelve tracks ranging between two and four minutes, with a total runtime of approximately forty-five minutes, So Long Little Miss Sunshine was preceded by Tuttle's 2023 album, City of Gold, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.^[3] The fifth track of the album is a cover of Swedish duo Icona Pop and British singer Charli XCX's multi-platinum-certified 2012 single, "I Love It".^[5]

It was produced by American singer-songwriter Jay Joyce, who recorded it with Tuttle and her bandmates at his Neon Cross studio in Nashville.^[6] It includes contributions from Old Crow Medicine Show vocalist and Tuttle's partner, Ketch Secor.^[3] The first single, "That's Gonna Leave a Mark", was released on June 3, 2025.^[7][2] It was followed by the second and third singles, "The Highway Knows" and "Old Me (New Wig)", on July 10 and July 31, 2025.^[8][9]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Financial Times	[3]
PopMatters	8/10[2]

Writing for AllMusic, Mark Deming described So Long Little Miss Sunshine as "an acoustic musician's big pop move that fully succeeds without throwing away the virtues of their previous work."^[1]

PopMatters' Chris Conaton, rating the album eight out of ten, noted that the album is "not entirely bluegrass this time around" due to Tuttle "stretching her sound mildly and clearly enjoying the process," referring to it as "an excellent written, impeccably performed, highly entertaining album."^[2] Arwa Haider of Financial Times assigned a rating of four stars to the album and noted, "The material certainly nods to the country scene's progressively broader and more youth-centred reach, but it never feels like a forced detour."^[3]

Billboard's Jessica Nicholson commented that the album "marks a radical stylistic evolution from her earlier bluegrass-oriented work" and was "built on a bedrock of folk-pop, country and rock, while still folding in dashes of bluegrass."^[6] Andrew Sacher of BrooklynVegan remarked that it "doesn't abandon her roots, but it does welcome a bunch more stylistic influences for a lively album that won't be easy to pigeonhole."^[5]