Tyler Childers and Sierra Ferrell are the leading nominees at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards. The Appalachia-reared musicians each scored three nominations — including Album, Song, and Artist of the Year — when the categories were announced on Tuesday at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville.
Childers, a Kentucky native, is nominated for his album Rustin’ in the Rain and the song “In Your Love,” while the West Virginia native Ferrell is recognized for the album Trail of Flowers and the song “American Dreaming.”
Other Artist of the Year nominees include Charley Crockett,...
Childers, a Kentucky native, is nominated for his album Rustin’ in the Rain and the song “In Your Love,” while the West Virginia native Ferrell is recognized for the album Trail of Flowers and the song “American Dreaming.”
Other Artist of the Year nominees include Charley Crockett,...
- 5/7/2024
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee took the stage at The Late Show to perform her folk-tinged song “Right Back to It.” The musician, Katie Crutchfield, was joined by her band and collaborator Mj Lenderman, who was part of her most recent LP, Tigers Blood.
“Right Back to It” appears on the album and was originally released in January as the LP’s flagship single. The song was written in June 2022, when Crutchfield was backstage at Virginia’s Wolf Trap opening for Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell.
“I’m really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic,...
“Right Back to It” appears on the album and was originally released in January as the LP’s flagship single. The song was written in June 2022, when Crutchfield was backstage at Virginia’s Wolf Trap opening for Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell.
“I’m really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic,...
- 3/27/2024
- by Emily Zemler
- Rollingstone.com
When Katie Crutchfield finished making Tigers Blood, her sixth album as Waxahatchee, she was struck by a strange, new sensation: It was done, and it was good.
“In the past, I’ve anxiously listened to my records before they come out a lot, searching for mistakes — and then of course finding them because I’m searching for them,” she says with a laugh. This time, she adds, “Every word is in the correct place. Every melody is just right. There’s no question marks. There’s no need to obsess over every little detail.
“In the past, I’ve anxiously listened to my records before they come out a lot, searching for mistakes — and then of course finding them because I’m searching for them,” she says with a laugh. This time, she adds, “Every word is in the correct place. Every melody is just right. There’s no question marks. There’s no need to obsess over every little detail.
- 3/22/2024
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” Katie Crutchfield boasts on her excellent new Waxahatchee album, Tigers Blood. She’s got a right to sound cocky. The long-time indie-rock underdog hero won herself a lot of new fans with Saint Cloud, her 2020 breakthrough hit, going for a laid-back style of heartland rock & roll twang. But Tigers Blood is even more rugged and confident, a master storyteller fully aware she’s on a hot streak. She sings about adult romance, struggling for sobriety, the day-to-day work of holding...
- 3/21/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
No matter what stylistic mode Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield is working in, from the emo-infused indie-folk of 2013’s Cerulean Salt to the sterling, country-tinged heartland rock of 2020’s Saint Cloud, her music boasts a persuasive, authorial presence. Her moniker is derived from the Alabama town where she grew up—“named after a city y’ain’t never seen,” she muses on the title track of Tigers Blood—and the album, like much of her discography, is stocked with scenes of vividly rendered rural life.
What’s perhaps most striking about Crutchfield’s music is that it dares to wrestle with honest depictions of its milieu. Tigers Blood is reflective without being overly sentimental. She pushes beyond idyllic small-town imagery, exploring the recklessness of youth and the privilege that comes with it: “Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” she sings on “Tigers Blood.”
The way Crutchfield’s...
What’s perhaps most striking about Crutchfield’s music is that it dares to wrestle with honest depictions of its milieu. Tigers Blood is reflective without being overly sentimental. She pushes beyond idyllic small-town imagery, exploring the recklessness of youth and the privilege that comes with it: “Drank someone else’s juice and left only the rind,” she sings on “Tigers Blood.”
The way Crutchfield’s...
- 3/16/2024
- by Charles Lyons-Burt
- Slant Magazine
Waxahatchee makes sense of a needy relationship, but with compassion, in “365.” The new song is off her upcoming album, Tigers Blood, due out March 22.
The song feels gentle with its slowly strummed guitars and organ in the background as she sings about how she lifts someone up. “Three hundred and sixty-five days,” she sings toward the end of the tune, “Tell me I’m your lucky charm/We defy gravity again/Somehow make it out unharmed.” The person to whom she’s singing is struggling with addiction, a topic...
The song feels gentle with its slowly strummed guitars and organ in the background as she sings about how she lifts someone up. “Three hundred and sixty-five days,” she sings toward the end of the tune, “Tell me I’m your lucky charm/We defy gravity again/Somehow make it out unharmed.” The person to whom she’s singing is struggling with addiction, a topic...
- 3/12/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee has given us another taste of Tigers Blood, her new album out next month.
The new single, “Bored,” is a surge of upbeat Americana — just watch the excited crowd in the video below, recorded at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. “I can get along — my spine’s a rotted two by four,” Katie Crutchfield sings. “Barely hanging on – my benevolence just hits the floor/I get bored.”
“I feel like my comfort zone when writing songs lies somewhere on the emotional spectrum of sadness and heartache,” Crutchfield said of the track.
The new single, “Bored,” is a surge of upbeat Americana — just watch the excited crowd in the video below, recorded at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. “I can get along — my spine’s a rotted two by four,” Katie Crutchfield sings. “Barely hanging on – my benevolence just hits the floor/I get bored.”
“I feel like my comfort zone when writing songs lies somewhere on the emotional spectrum of sadness and heartache,” Crutchfield said of the track.
- 2/13/2024
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee is back with “Bored,” the latest single from her forthcoming album, Tigers Blood.
Built around an acoustic guitar-led arrangement, “Bored” shows off the melodic sensibilities of Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, with subtle verses blossoming into soaring choruses. Lyrically, she flows through scenes and observations, culminating with the wonderfully-resonant, nearly cathartic refrain: “I can get along, my spine’s a rotted two by four/ barely hanging on, my benevolence just hits the floor/ I get bored.”
The second song to arrive from Tigers Blood — following last month’s “Right Back to It,” named Song of the Week — the new single, “Bored,” arrives with a music video depicting Crutchfield performing live at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. Watch the video below.
First announced earlier this year, Tigers Blood is due in full on March 22nd via Anti-. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.
Up next, Waxahatchee will hit...
Built around an acoustic guitar-led arrangement, “Bored” shows off the melodic sensibilities of Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, with subtle verses blossoming into soaring choruses. Lyrically, she flows through scenes and observations, culminating with the wonderfully-resonant, nearly cathartic refrain: “I can get along, my spine’s a rotted two by four/ barely hanging on, my benevolence just hits the floor/ I get bored.”
The second song to arrive from Tigers Blood — following last month’s “Right Back to It,” named Song of the Week — the new single, “Bored,” arrives with a music video depicting Crutchfield performing live at Devil’s Backbone Tavern in Fischer, Texas. Watch the video below.
First announced earlier this year, Tigers Blood is due in full on March 22nd via Anti-. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.
Up next, Waxahatchee will hit...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jo Vito
- Consequence - Music
Katie Crutchfield’s indie folk project Waxahatchee has announced a new album, Tigers Blood, out March 22nd via her new label home Anti-. Along with the news comes lead single “Right Back to It,” as well as a run of US tour dates in 2024.
Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...
Crutchfield wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during what she calls a “hot hand spell,” while on tour near the end of 2022. She reunited with producer Brad Cook, who also produced her 2020 album Saint Cloud, and welcomed onboard some new collaborators including Mj Lenderman and Spencer Tweedy. Pre-orders are ongoing.
“Right Back to It” sees Crutchfield lean into her country side, singing alongside an arpeggiated banjo jangle courtesy of Phil Cook as Lenderman joins her in harmony on the choruses. On it, Crutchfield reflects on maintaining a long-term romantic relationship, and the bittersweet beauty of building a partnership that can outlast your worries:...
- 1/9/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
It’s been three years since we’ve had a new Waxahatchee album, but the wait is over: Katie Crutchfield will release Tigers Blood on March 22 via Anti-.
Crutchfield previewed the long-awaited album with the lead single “Right Back to It,” a duet with Wednesday’s Mj Lenderman. It’s an Americana burner full of tender twang, with lines chronicling a longtime love. The video, which you can watch below, features Crutchfield and Lenderman in Caddo Lake, Texas, serenely riding in a low boat.
According to Crutchfield, “Right Back...
Crutchfield previewed the long-awaited album with the lead single “Right Back to It,” a duet with Wednesday’s Mj Lenderman. It’s an Americana burner full of tender twang, with lines chronicling a longtime love. The video, which you can watch below, features Crutchfield and Lenderman in Caddo Lake, Texas, serenely riding in a low boat.
According to Crutchfield, “Right Back...
- 1/9/2024
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
At the height of the pandemic, Jess Williamson found herself taking long walks with her neighbor Natalie Mering, who performs as Weyes Blood. “I had met her in passing over the years, but we didn’t know each other,” says Williamson. “We were podded up, and we got to be really good friends.” Venturing around Los Feliz with Mering’s Pomeranian, Luigi, the songwriters discussed their upcoming music and dating, even starting a group text titled Ho Support. “We’d talk about boys and sorcery,” Mering says. “Mostly boys.”
Williamson...
Williamson...
- 3/28/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Jeff Tweedy, Waxahatchee, Björk, and more will share new music and insights into their creative lives and relationships with sound on the new podcast series, Listening.
Hosted by Elia Einhorn, each episode of Listening will find guest artists discussing the way they listen to music and hear the world, while also walking through the creation of an original composition made specifically for the show. The first four episodes are out today, Aug. 10, with additional installments dropping weekly.
Episode one of Listening features Tweedy and his sons, Spencer and Sammy, discussing...
Hosted by Elia Einhorn, each episode of Listening will find guest artists discussing the way they listen to music and hear the world, while also walking through the creation of an original composition made specifically for the show. The first four episodes are out today, Aug. 10, with additional installments dropping weekly.
Episode one of Listening features Tweedy and his sons, Spencer and Sammy, discussing...
- 8/10/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
In early 2020, just before the pandemic, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson exchanged albums. Saint Cloud and Sorceress sparked a bond between the two songwriters, and now they’ve formed the duo Plains.
As the name suggests, the project shows Crutchfield venturing further into the Lucinda Williams-esque country she leaned into on Saint Cloud, blending her voice with Williamson on the lead single “Problem With It.” Their new album, I Walked With You a Ways, arrives on Oct. 14.
The LP was produced by Crutchfield’s recent collaborator Brad Cook,...
As the name suggests, the project shows Crutchfield venturing further into the Lucinda Williams-esque country she leaned into on Saint Cloud, blending her voice with Williamson on the lead single “Problem With It.” Their new album, I Walked With You a Ways, arrives on Oct. 14.
The LP was produced by Crutchfield’s recent collaborator Brad Cook,...
- 7/27/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Naomi Judd's legacy will continue to live on through Wynonna Judd's voice. In an Instagram post shared on May 24, Wynonna not only revisited her past promise that she will continue to sing after her mother's death but made good on the vow by releasing a new collaboration with Waxahatchee. "In the midst of everything that has happened, I said that I would continue to sing," Wynonna wrote. "So, here I am." Wynonna explained that the new track bloomed after she met Katie Crutchfield, the singer who founded the solo musical project Waxahatchee. "I met @waxa_katie last year and we connected immediately," she wrote. "We recorded 'Other Side' in the studio...
- 5/25/2022
- E! Online
Wynonna Judd and Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield make surprising and superb duet partners on “Other Side,” a collaborative single that mark’s Wynonna’s first new music since the 2020 covers EP Recollections.
It’s a lean arrangement that’s led off by a descending acoustic guitar progression and Cactus Moser’s drums, mellow enough to belie its breezy tempo. Wynonna sets the tone in the opening verse, singing from a place of independence and optimism about what’s ahead. “Say my peace like an offhand prayer, I’m living a grain of sand,...
It’s a lean arrangement that’s led off by a descending acoustic guitar progression and Cactus Moser’s drums, mellow enough to belie its breezy tempo. Wynonna sets the tone in the opening verse, singing from a place of independence and optimism about what’s ahead. “Say my peace like an offhand prayer, I’m living a grain of sand,...
- 5/24/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
There’s something strange about Memphis. Nestled along the muddy waters of the Mississippi River, the city lies shrouded in an aura of perpetual gloom, its skyline dominated by a mammoth, metal-clad pyramid filled not with treasures, but a Bass Pro Shop superstore. Unable to escape its murky past — yellow fever, massacres and assassinations, untimely demises — the city remains burdened by the stench of death lingering in the hot, humid air.
It’s not the happiest place on earth, but it does make an ideal locale to ruminate on mortality.
It’s not the happiest place on earth, but it does make an ideal locale to ruminate on mortality.
- 5/16/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
Bright Eyes pulled out all the stops to deliver a full-band performance of “Dance and Sing” Wednesday on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The track comes off the group’s 2020 album Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, which Rolling Stone said reminds listeners why frontman Conor Oberst “was one of the best singer-songwriters of the 2000s.”
Oberst, alongside longtime Bright Eyes members Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis, were backed by a large group of musicians, including a full strings section and horn players, for the performance.
Oberst, alongside longtime Bright Eyes members Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis, were backed by a large group of musicians, including a full strings section and horn players, for the performance.
- 4/14/2022
- by Kat Bouza
- Rollingstone.com
Bright Eyes have announced an ambitious plan to reissue their entire catalog with accompanying EPs, aptly titled the Companion series.
On May 27, the band will kick off with the first three albums: A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, 1998’s Letting Off the Happiness, and 2000’s Fevers and Mirrors. You can hear the latter’s “Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh” above with Phoebe Bridgers, with Waxahatchee joining in on “Contrast and Compare” below, followed by “Falling Out of Love at This Volume” from the debut.
“It’s a meaningful...
On May 27, the band will kick off with the first three albums: A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, 1998’s Letting Off the Happiness, and 2000’s Fevers and Mirrors. You can hear the latter’s “Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh” above with Phoebe Bridgers, with Waxahatchee joining in on “Contrast and Compare” below, followed by “Falling Out of Love at This Volume” from the debut.
“It’s a meaningful...
- 2/1/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Days before they head out on tour together, Madi Diaz and Waxahatchee have teamed up for a new version of “Resentment.”
The track — originally from Diaz’s History of a Feeling and previously recorded by Kesha — gets a cozy Americana makeover, with Katie Crutchfield taking the second verse.
“I’m so thrilled to have been asked to reimagine the song,” Crutchfield said. “I listened to that album more than anything else last year and I think Madi is one of the most talented and exciting people putting out music right now.
The track — originally from Diaz’s History of a Feeling and previously recorded by Kesha — gets a cozy Americana makeover, with Katie Crutchfield taking the second verse.
“I’m so thrilled to have been asked to reimagine the song,” Crutchfield said. “I listened to that album more than anything else last year and I think Madi is one of the most talented and exciting people putting out music right now.
- 1/31/2022
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee has dropped the kid-friendly Americana single “Tomorrow,” off the upcoming animated series El Deafo.
The track opens with twinkling keyboard, as Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield sings about finding her own path. El Deafo is a loose autobiography about writer Cece Bell losing her hearing in childhood.
“I’m so happy to finally announce an amazing project I had the honor of being a part of,” Crutchfield said in a statement. “Last year I wrote some original music for a new show on Apple TV+ called El Deafo, based on...
The track opens with twinkling keyboard, as Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield sings about finding her own path. El Deafo is a loose autobiography about writer Cece Bell losing her hearing in childhood.
“I’m so happy to finally announce an amazing project I had the honor of being a part of,” Crutchfield said in a statement. “Last year I wrote some original music for a new show on Apple TV+ called El Deafo, based on...
- 12/15/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee has contributed a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Talking Dust Bowl Blues” for the upcoming album Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads, a reimagined version of the legendary folk musician’s 1940 collection Dust Bowl Blues.
Katie Crutchfield channels Guthrie’s talk-singing voice throughout the song, as she recounts the daily hardships of living through the Dust Bowl: “Way up yonder on a mountain road/I had a hot motor and a heavy load/I’s a-goin’ pretty fast, there wasn’t even stoppin’/A-bouncin’ up and down,...
Katie Crutchfield channels Guthrie’s talk-singing voice throughout the song, as she recounts the daily hardships of living through the Dust Bowl: “Way up yonder on a mountain road/I had a hot motor and a heavy load/I’s a-goin’ pretty fast, there wasn’t even stoppin’/A-bouncin’ up and down,...
- 8/18/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The 2021 Newport Folk Festival (technically titled “Folk On”) is, for obvious reasons, much different than past installments: Coming off a year of mass tragedy and societal reckoning, this year’s event, ongoing through July 28th, features double the amount of days — six instead of three — reduced capacity, and fewer stages. The first three days were the folkiest in recent memory: more acoustic, more intimate, and more traditionally minded than usual. Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley delivered their timeless Drive-By Trucker tunes as an acoustic duo, Katie Crutchfield performed highlights from her 2020 opus,...
- 7/26/2021
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Shortly after celebrating the one-year anniversary of Saint Cloud with a deluxe edition, Waxahatchee has announced 2021 tour dates behind the album.
The trek kicks off in September in Louisville, Kentucky, followed by a performance at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Katie Crutchfield will travel through the West Coast before heading to the East, including stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Tickets go on sale Friday.
The Saint Cloud deluxe edition contained the original album and Crutchfield’s covers of Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, and Lucinda Williams. Following her initial interview with Rolling Stone on Saint Cloud,...
The trek kicks off in September in Louisville, Kentucky, followed by a performance at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Katie Crutchfield will travel through the West Coast before heading to the East, including stops in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Tickets go on sale Friday.
The Saint Cloud deluxe edition contained the original album and Crutchfield’s covers of Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, and Lucinda Williams. Following her initial interview with Rolling Stone on Saint Cloud,...
- 4/14/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee is celebrating the one-year anniversary of her critically acclaimed album Saint Cloud with a new deluxe version, featuring three covers. The track list boasts renditions of Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor” (which she performed live during her 2017-2018 Out in the Storm tour), Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Philadelphia,” and Dolly Parton’s “Light of a Clear Blue Morning.”
All three covers fit right into the mellow, country-inspired sound of Saint Cloud. “Fruits of My Labor” sticks pretty faithfully to Williams’ original (from 2003’s World Without Tears), while...
All three covers fit right into the mellow, country-inspired sound of Saint Cloud. “Fruits of My Labor” sticks pretty faithfully to Williams’ original (from 2003’s World Without Tears), while...
- 3/29/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
For this year’s annual Women Shaping the Future issue, we asked 12 of today’s top musical acts to talk about the women who have inspired them most in their lives and careers. Here, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield talks about her lifelong admiration for Fiona Apple’s music, and how she helped inspire Waxahatchee’s most recent album.
I grew up taking dance classes, and I had this cool dance teacher who would play good music, and music that I wasn’t superfamiliar with. So the first time I heard...
I grew up taking dance classes, and I had this cool dance teacher who would play good music, and music that I wasn’t superfamiliar with. So the first time I heard...
- 3/16/2021
- by Katie Crutchfield
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee recalls hearing Fiona Apple for the first time in a dance class. “We did a dance to the song ‘Paper Bag,’ and I remember immediately being like, ‘I’ve never heard anything like this,’ and immediately just clocked it,” she told Rolling Stone for our Icons & Influences video series. “I was like, ‘This person, Fiona Apple, is really interesting.’”
“What I think is so special about her is there’s this stereotype of women’s emotions — the idea of the hysterical woman — and that has been...
“What I think is so special about her is there’s this stereotype of women’s emotions — the idea of the hysterical woman — and that has been...
- 3/2/2021
- by Alison Weinflash
- Rollingstone.com
Indie artists Waxahatchee and Kevin Morby performed four songs together for the latest installment of CBS This Morning’s Saturday Sessions.
For the mini-set, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield delivered her Saint Cloud cuts “Fire” and “Lilacs” — which she also recently played on Jimmy Kimmel Live — alongside Morby, who fronted the group for his “Campfire” and “Sundowner,” the title track from his 2020 LP.
As revealed in a recent Rolling Stone Year in Music interview, Crutchfield and Morby are also partners, with the pair recently relocating to Morby’s native Kansas City.
For the mini-set, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield delivered her Saint Cloud cuts “Fire” and “Lilacs” — which she also recently played on Jimmy Kimmel Live — alongside Morby, who fronted the group for his “Campfire” and “Sundowner,” the title track from his 2020 LP.
As revealed in a recent Rolling Stone Year in Music interview, Crutchfield and Morby are also partners, with the pair recently relocating to Morby’s native Kansas City.
- 2/13/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee performed a pristine rendition of her song “Lilacs” on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday, February 9th.
The performance took place in a big room with high ceilings, light pouring through the windows and reeds and other dry florals arranged around the room. As her backing band picked out the country-tinged tune, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield delivered a masterful vocal performance: “And if my bones are made of delicate sugar/I won’t end up anywhere good without you/I need your love, too.”
“Lilacs” appears on Waxahatchee’s most recent album,...
The performance took place in a big room with high ceilings, light pouring through the windows and reeds and other dry florals arranged around the room. As her backing band picked out the country-tinged tune, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield delivered a masterful vocal performance: “And if my bones are made of delicate sugar/I won’t end up anywhere good without you/I need your love, too.”
“Lilacs” appears on Waxahatchee’s most recent album,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield has been making music full of beautifully expressed emotional turbulence since her teens, picking up rave reviews and new fans with each release. Before recording Saint Cloud, her fifth album as Waxahatchee, the Alabama-raised musician made some big changes in her life, giving up drinking and moving to Kansas City, where she now lives with her partner, Kevin Morby. She also took a major leap forward in her songwriting, which rings out with a new clarity on Saint Cloud — an album with no skips, just 11 tender country-rock songs...
- 1/28/2021
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield made a major creative breakthrough last year with Saint Cloud, her fifth album as Waxahatchee. The Alabama-raised singer-songwriter was met with rave reviews across the board when the LP was released in March 2020, and enthusiasm for her clear-eyed country-rock songs about personal growth and domestic bliss held strong through the months that have followed. At year’s end, Saint Cloud made it into the Top 10 in Rolling Stone‘s list of the Best Albums of 2020, as well as ranking highly on many Rs staffers’ personal favorites.
On January...
On January...
- 1/15/2021
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Read: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List
Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.
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The Animals John Cale
The...
Voters were asked to submit ranked ballots listing their 50 favorite albums of all time. Votes were tabulated, with the highest-ranked album on each list receiving 300 points, the second highest 290 points, and so on down to 44 points for number 50. More than 3,000 albums received at least one vote.
Artists, Songwriters, and Producers 9th Wonder Johntá Austin A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie Mick Avory
The Kinks Glen Ballard Alice Bag Bas Jon Batiste Big Boi Beyoncé Branko Michael Brun Eric Burdon
The Animals John Cale
The...
- 9/22/2020
- by RS Editors
- Rollingstone.com
Justin Sullivan has spent the better part of two decades as a touring drummer for a variety of indie bands, and as a member of Flat Worms and the Babies alongside Kevin Morby and Cassie Ramone. He stepped out into the spotlight in 2018 with In the Break, his solo debut under the name Night Shop. Now Sullivan returns with “In the Twilight Sun,” a slow-burning duet with Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield that’s one of the year’s most charming indie singles.
The track opens with a soulful groove, assisted...
The track opens with a soulful groove, assisted...
- 9/8/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Kevin Morby has shared “Campfire,” the first offering from his new album Sundowner, out October 16th via Dead Oceans.
Directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, the video features Morby at Castle Rock in Kansas — playing guitar and surrounded by limestone. He meets up with his partner, Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, who drives off in an old Ford pickup, with Morby riding in the truck bed. “Now that it’s dusk, kids scatter the avenue,” he sings. “Hey, who are you? I’m a sundowner too.”
Morby wrote Sundowner after...
Directed by Johnny Eastlund and Dylan Isbell, the video features Morby at Castle Rock in Kansas — playing guitar and surrounded by limestone. He meets up with his partner, Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, who drives off in an old Ford pickup, with Morby riding in the truck bed. “Now that it’s dusk, kids scatter the avenue,” he sings. “Hey, who are you? I’m a sundowner too.”
Morby wrote Sundowner after...
- 9/1/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee’s 2020 spring tour may be postponed, but Katie Crutchfield will perform her entire discography in a June livestream series, occurring every Monday evening at 9:00 pm E.T.
“I’m announcing a run of five livestreams where I play all five of my albums in their entirety,” Crutchfield said in a statement. “This idea was born as a way to help support my band and crew through this time where we’ve had to cancel and move shows, thus causing a huge financial burden.”
“I’m also donating a...
“I’m announcing a run of five livestreams where I play all five of my albums in their entirety,” Crutchfield said in a statement. “This idea was born as a way to help support my band and crew through this time where we’ve had to cancel and move shows, thus causing a huge financial burden.”
“I’m also donating a...
- 5/27/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Each month, the editors and critics at Rolling Stone will compile a list of our favorite new albums. Our picks from March include cosmopolitan reggaeton star J Balvin, alt-rock heroes Pearl Jam and rap dynamo Lil Uzi Vert
Lil Uzi Vert, Eternal Atake
Eternal Atake is Lil Uzi Vert’s best album yet, with a cohesiveness, slick concept, and performance that justifies every ounce of hype. He’s still melodically minded—note the almost melismatic flourish of “Got a model/ with vitiligo” on “Prices”—but Eternal Atake sometimes feels like...
Lil Uzi Vert, Eternal Atake
Eternal Atake is Lil Uzi Vert’s best album yet, with a cohesiveness, slick concept, and performance that justifies every ounce of hype. He’s still melodically minded—note the almost melismatic flourish of “Got a model/ with vitiligo” on “Prices”—but Eternal Atake sometimes feels like...
- 3/31/2020
- by Jon Dolan, Claire Shaffer, Rob Sheffield, Brittany Spanos, Jonathan Bernstein, Suzy Exposito, Kory Grow and Danny Schwartz
- Rollingstone.com
Happy release day to Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud, singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield’s best album yet. In it, she embraces Americana and country-rock, deviating from the thrashing indie-rock she became known for in her previous work and returning to her southern roots of Birmingham, Alabama, while citing Lucinda Williams and Linda Ronstadt as inspirations.
“Oxbow,” the first track on the album, serves as a window opening into this new territory — a big, booming welcome that features the drums of Nick Kinsey, who came up with the beat on the spot at...
“Oxbow,” the first track on the album, serves as a window opening into this new territory — a big, booming welcome that features the drums of Nick Kinsey, who came up with the beat on the spot at...
- 3/27/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield has always had a knack for noting subtle shifts in the weather. “I watch you anxiously/You paint it celestial, you paint it serene,” she sang over thrashing guitars on “Poison,” from 2015’s Ivy Tripp, making serenity sound like a death knell. On her latest album Saint Cloud, the 31-year-old songwriter trades in the indie-rock neurosis of her previous work for a mellower, twangy sound that nods towards her roots in Birmingham, Alabama. But her piercing observations have only grown sharper with time: “I have a gift, I’ve been told,...
- 3/25/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
With the coronavirus continuing to force artists to cancel or postpone tours and festivals, many have taken their shows to social media — livestreaming from the comforts of their homes and offering fans a glimpse of their lives. From Brian Wilson to Diplo, here are the best performances so far of the stay-at-home era. Click through and find something to pass all the hours you’ll have to spend inside for the good of yourself and others.
Neil Young
When Neil Young streamed a performance of the digital rally for Bernie Sanders earlier in the week,...
Neil Young
When Neil Young streamed a performance of the digital rally for Bernie Sanders earlier in the week,...
- 3/20/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein, Jon Blistein, Patrick Doyle, Andy Greene, Joseph Hudak, Elias Leight, Angie Martoccio, Hank Shteamer, Brittany Spanos and Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield gets realistic about love in her new song “Can’t Do Much.” The track is the third single off her upcoming album Saint Cloud, out March 27th on Merge Records.
The clip — grainy to resemble a vintage film — opens with Crutchfield in a striking red blazer, performing the track with her band. “We will coalesce like heaven and hell/My eyes roll around like dice on the felt,” she sings. “In my loneliness, I’m locked in a room/When you see me I’m honey on a spoon.
The clip — grainy to resemble a vintage film — opens with Crutchfield in a striking red blazer, performing the track with her band. “We will coalesce like heaven and hell/My eyes roll around like dice on the felt,” she sings. “In my loneliness, I’m locked in a room/When you see me I’m honey on a spoon.
- 3/16/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield has dropped a new single, “Lilacs,” accompanied by a stunning video. The track is off Crutchfield’s upcoming album Saint Cloud, out March 27th via Merge Records.
Directed by Ashley Connor, the clip features dancer Marlee Grace making her way through a warehouse, eyes on the camera as she pirouettes and stretches across empty chairs. She steps outside in the rain, mouthing the lyrics as the lens catches condensation: “And the lilacs drink the water.”
“Lilacs” is the final song Crutchfield created for Saint Cloud, which...
Directed by Ashley Connor, the clip features dancer Marlee Grace making her way through a warehouse, eyes on the camera as she pirouettes and stretches across empty chairs. She steps outside in the rain, mouthing the lyrics as the lens catches condensation: “And the lilacs drink the water.”
“Lilacs” is the final song Crutchfield created for Saint Cloud, which...
- 2/18/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield overlooks the Mississippi River in the new video for “Fire,” the first single from her upcoming LP Saint Cloud, out March 27th via Merge Records.
“That’s what I wanted,” she sings in the clip, walking across the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in the blinding sunlight. “It’s not as if we cry a river, call it rain/West Memphis is on fire in the light of day.”
Crutchfield came up with the Americana slow-burner when she and her partner, musician Kevin Morby, were driving over that...
“That’s what I wanted,” she sings in the clip, walking across the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in the blinding sunlight. “It’s not as if we cry a river, call it rain/West Memphis is on fire in the light of day.”
Crutchfield came up with the Americana slow-burner when she and her partner, musician Kevin Morby, were driving over that...
- 1/22/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield recently read a diary entry from when she was 17 years old. “It was actually really sad,” she says. “I talked about how I wanted to quit drinking, and that was so long ago.”
It’s 11 a.m., but Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, is still in her pajamas, sitting in her twin sister Allison’s backyard in Los Angeles. Now 30 years old, she’s been sober for a year and a half. “I really feel like I came back to the person I was before I started drinking,...
It’s 11 a.m., but Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, is still in her pajamas, sitting in her twin sister Allison’s backyard in Los Angeles. Now 30 years old, she’s been sober for a year and a half. “I really feel like I came back to the person I was before I started drinking,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee has been making noise since her teens, when she started out in the Alabama punk rock scene. She began writing songs at a tender age, learning to play guitar alongside her twin sister Alison Crutchfield, who fronts the band Swearin’. Since then, Katie Crutchfield has become one of indie rock’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters—not to mention one of the most wildly prolific. The sisters have been in and out of bands together, including P.S. Eliot, the Ackleys and Bad Banana. But Katie is best...
- 10/15/2018
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield joined Rolling Stone contributing editor Rob Sheffield for a live conversation as part of Rolling Stone‘s Rs Styled New York Fashion Week event.
During the wide-ranging half-hour conversation, Crutchfield shared an in-depth chronology and personal history of her various bands (Waxahatchee, Ps Eliot, The Ackleys, Bad Banana), and offered insights into her songwriting process.
“There’s pockets of ideas and there’s melodies and there’s lyrics and there are little pieces of the puzzles that are fragmented and scattered all over the place in my life,...
During the wide-ranging half-hour conversation, Crutchfield shared an in-depth chronology and personal history of her various bands (Waxahatchee, Ps Eliot, The Ackleys, Bad Banana), and offered insights into her songwriting process.
“There’s pockets of ideas and there’s melodies and there’s lyrics and there are little pieces of the puzzles that are fragmented and scattered all over the place in my life,...
- 9/24/2018
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone recently presented its inaugural Rolling Stone Styled event from September 10th through September 11th during New York Fashion Week at The Vnyl in the East Village. The two-day event featured intimate conversations with notables in the fields of fashion, music and television, including Dillon Francis, Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee, Billie Eilish, Jay Ellis from HBO’s Insecure and fashion designer Zac Posen. It ended with a performance from rapper Saweetie. See more images from the events here.
Posen spoke with Rolling Stone culture editor Elisabeth Garber-Paul on the...
Posen spoke with Rolling Stone culture editor Elisabeth Garber-Paul on the...
- 9/20/2018
- by Jerry Portwood
- Rollingstone.com
Rolling Stone presented its inaugural Rolling Stone Styled event from September 10th through September 11th during New York Fashion Week at The Vnyl in the East Village. The two-day event featured intimate conversions with notables in the fields of fashion, music and television. It kicked off with Rob Sheffield interviewing Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee and was followed by Sydelle Noel, one of the stars of Netflix’s Glow, in conversation with Brittany Spanos. It was the one-year anniversary of the release of the documentary House of Z, and fashion designer Zac Posen,...
- 9/14/2018
- by Rolling Stone
- Rollingstone.com
Katie Crutchfield unveiled the sullen yet fantasical video for her band Waxahatchee‘s new single “Chapel of Pines.” The track arrives along with the announcement of the band’s forthcoming LP Great Thunder, due out on September 7th.
Christopher Good directed the surreal visual that opens with Crutchfield asleep in a forest, then joined by a man who explores the forest with her, hand-in-hand. The next day she wakes up alone, but in the distance, the man is standing ominously with his back to her and an arm extended holding...
Christopher Good directed the surreal visual that opens with Crutchfield asleep in a forest, then joined by a man who explores the forest with her, hand-in-hand. The next day she wakes up alone, but in the distance, the man is standing ominously with his back to her and an arm extended holding...
- 7/17/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
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