WAXAHATCHEE, aka the wonderful Alabama songstress Katie Crutchfield scored
highly on several end-of-the-year lists in 2024 with her 6th LPTigers Blood. It was nominated for Best Americana Album at the Grammies last weekend but it was Sierra
Ferrell who triumphed.
She’s getting ready now to tour with Wilco and throws in a new
non-album track (but recorded at the same sessions) to warm up.
MUD is a potent mid-tempo country rocker with Crutchfield‘s
voice, as usual, as the dominant instrument up front.
WAXAHATCHEE is the moniker of the wonderful Alabama songstress Katie Crutchfield
who released her 2nd praised album 10 years ago today, on 5 March 2023.
Pitchfork said: “Cerulean Salt, Crutchfield’s new album, is going to be heard. But from
its opening moments, you get the sense that she’s ready for it, the newfound assurance, steadiness, and clarity of her voice immediately obvious… It’s that blazingly honest, hyper-personal quality that places Cerulean Salt in the tradition of Elliott Smith, early Cat Power,
or Liz Phair’s free-flowing Girlysound tapes– the work of a songwriter skilled enough to make introspection seem not self-centered, but generous.” Score: 8.5/10.
A Guthrie tribute album – Home In This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads – curated by Grammy-winning producer Randall Poster arrives next month. It features
artists such as by Lee Ann Womack, John Paul White, Mark Lanegan, Lillie Mae, Shovels and
Rope, Chris Thile, Colter Wall, Watkins Family Hour, the Felice Brothers, Swamp Dogg, and Parker Millsap .
WAXAHATCHEE aka KATIE CRUTCHFIELD releases her fifth album, titled ‘SAINT CLOUD‘ on 27 March. After sharing lead-single ‘Fire’ last month here’s another new one. Although ‘LILACS‘ isn’t an optimistic song as it’s about “backsliding into old behaviors that don’t serve you and sort of letting your worst self get the best of you” it sounds uplifting and light-hearted. A bit folky and country balancing between Dolly Parton and Lucinda Williams.
