Shelby Means: Bake to Bass-ics

In Shelby Means’ childhood home, weekends were for bluegrass. The best pickers in Laramie, Wyoming, gathered at her house, where she anchored jam sessions on the upright bass while her father and brother played guitar and mandolin. Another constant? Chocolate Bundt cake in the oven and a pot of chili on the stove.

“The motto around my house was, ‘If you eat good, you play good,’” Means recalls. As the bassist in Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, it’s a mantra she still lives by. After winning the Grammy for best bluegrass album earlier this year (besting fellow nominees like Willie Nelson and Sam Bush), she and the band splurged on
a bottle of champagne (“You can’t drink prosecco to celebrate a Grammy,” Means laughs) and dinner at L.A.’s Musso and Frank Grill...

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