We just have to live in this weird groundlessness, to accept that theres no way to know whento try to be certain that we will get to play these songs, even if its two years from now. In the meantime, quarantine has tested, and possibly changed, her restless nature. She has blackhair with attractive black eyes. His instincts were so important on that record. ; Im so blessed.. In the pandemic, these two love birds were captured and quarantined together. Singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield has gone from punk rocker to indie artist, but the next step in her musical metamorphosis involved embracing a part of herself that she'd previously shied. That arrangement changed in 2017, however, after a breakup and a roommates departure left Morby with little tying him to L.A. By October that year, he left for Kansas, figuring hed take a bit of time there to regroup. Their live shows will kick off this fall in Seattle, Washington on Oct. 21. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. Shes looking forward to seeing them bloom in the spring. Now, even if they still do in the future, they dont see themselves parting with the Kansas house after all its given them. Like, the Flannery O'Connor of it all.". It was well-received by critics and named a top album of the year by Dusted magazine. Like I was looking at things honestly for the first time. The chorus of that track is just Crutchfield singing I want it all, over and over, as fresh colors break and deepen around her, the chords looping into a state of tenuous reassurance. Sundowner was originally planned for a 2021 release. Different bands, but same idea. "I definitely felt the growth.". Morby and Crutchfield would relax in the hot tub, watch movies, and go for walks; theyd bike and skateboard (together Crutchfield would bike and pull Morby on a skateboard), eat junk food, and have Nerf-gun wars throughout the house. In a recent interview, she told the musician Jess Williamson that, earlier in her career, she had thought of herself as a songwriter more than a performershe would just stumble out on stage and kind of mumble my songs into the microphone and then stumble off and go out with my friends. Through making Saint Cloud, she realized how much self-respect she had been denying herself: she needed to love myself enough to go out and hone some power for a second and put it out into the world. At the beginning of March, she gathered her touring band for a long and magical weekend of rehearsal in Michigan. Katie Crutchfield, of Waxahatchee, is the most celebrated musician in a burgeoning Philadelphia scene. That I can take joy in simplicity, that I can have these moments. Her follow-up album came out in March. My hope with Plains was to tap into something Universal. Weve been sitting with this record for a long time. Im like, Whoa, thats a lot of stuff Ive worked on in the last couple years that I had not worked on then. "It was a real honor to get to sort of usher people back into that live music sort of thing," she says. She says the two of them have been inseparable since they were kids in Birmingham, Alabama, writing songs in their parents' basement. Katie Crutchfield (born 1989) is a singer, songwriter and founder of Waxahatchee, a solo project which has recorded and toured as a band. I grew up with that stuff. It feels like I instantly know what she's talking about. She says her daughters did eventually go off to college but it only lasted a few semesters. She was inspired by her hometown 'Waxahatchee Creek' in Alabama for naming her band 'Waxahatchee'. I love all of it, but I knew [that sound] wasnt going to be super-sustainable for me because its so loud and abrasive. Waxahatchee: 5 Albums That Changed My Life. Katie Crutchfield (born January 4, 1989 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer-songwriter. The Plains project with Jess Williamson isnt a total 180 for you, musically, but it is definitely twangier than anything youve ever done before. They started out with casual sets on Instagram; then Crutchfield, inspired by seeing her hero Lucinda Williams play Car Wheels on a Gravel Road front to back, decided shed play through each of her albums for ticketed streams. By the time she released Saint Cloud last March, Crutchfield was eager to return to touring, but circumstances, of course, had changed. She recalls that in her solo project she might not have kept the lyrics heard in "Problem With It," but Williamson encouraged her to. Ill get half a sentence out and then interrupt myself, saying, Its O.K. Its caused me to look a little bit deeper about whats inspiring this. My email is steve@kcur.org. For me that was the Chicks and Dolly Parton, and having a place to channel those influences was an absolute blast. When the first, deep chord kicks in and Crutchfield starts singing, it feels as if youve stumbled through thick woods to find a sudden clearing, a place where you can stay as long as you like. TYLER-AMEEN: Hamilton took The Ackleys under his wing, helping them record and release their music on his own small label. Rolling Stone ranked it the 7th best album of 2020, and Pitchfork named it 2nd. She borrowed the name of nearby Waxahatchee Creek and collected her songs on 2012's American. Katies support was so important for me as we wrote this album. The spare, quiet music ended up generating a lot of buzz in the music industry. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Almost in a Leslie Knope kind of a way. Movies. Sorceress was the most Id ever leaned into country sounds, and I felt like I had unfinished business, she said, describing the project as a way to channel these influences that we love, like Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harriss records as Trio. Since then she has given her sole focus on her band 'Waxatchee' and has released a series of albums including her first 'The American Weekend' released by Don Giovanni in 2012. I still feel that way about Kansas City, even as Ive gotten to know the city better and made more friends and kind of have more of a community there. And everyone was like, there's a Joni Mitchell album called "Blue," Katie. I had no intention of keeping that. Its just fun and yeah, it does give me a lot of freedom and I feel like the thing Im sort of dancing aroundits like, Kansas City is sort of outside the spotlight of the music business, in a way. CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) We've heard this summer GREENE: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. The suit alleges that producers offered no support for the crews anxiety and PTSD symptoms in the aftermath of the shooting. Yeah. Wed both been so on the move constantly this has been the one place we can come when theres a slow moment. CRUTCHFIELD: A lot of the songs were so loose when we first started working on them that I didn't even know what I wanted. Alabama-born singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield broke through to a bigger audience last year by releasing an aching, bare-bones solo album . Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee has been making noise since her teens, . TYLER-AMEEN: Katie's sister Allison says she's listened to the new album a lot. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) My gal and father, vomit and water, we're not alone here. Both of them have been living together for a while in Kansas. Both of her parents being insurance agent and homemaker has always been in love witha great voice and athletic ability, on the other hand, this prompted parents to pursue more traditional futures for their kids. CRUTCHFIELD: We sat them both down basically, and said that, you know, if you want to pursue your music and work, that's fine. Morby, meanwhile, had finished an Australian tour and hadnt gotten a true break from touring in years. 2023 Getty Images. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. Thats the meat of the song. Download. Getting ready to tour the album, Crutchfield felt newly proud and deliberate. It's a gorgeous piece of work featuring her sister Allison, Katie Harkin (Sleater-Kinney, Flock of . By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive email correspondence from us. We're sitting on the back porch of her house in West Philadelphia, which she shares with seven friends - all musicians - including her twin sister, Allison. Being in back in the middle of the country, having this feeling of like, I dont really know that many people here yetits just sort of quieter. Crutchfield and Williamson each brought songs theyd written individually relying on the other for some in-the-room punch-ups and they found their styles to be quite complementary. Collect, curate and comment on your files. She has been contributing tothe genre of indie rocks for a while with her lyrics mainly focusing on her personal life, relationship, and wondering about what to do in their adulthood. It was always me writing a song, but then having a sort of a sounding board and so in that sense, yes, I would say it has. Problem With It 3. Cloud, too. She was born in Alabama, America where she and her twin sister Allison Crutchfield grew together and played their music fin the street of Waxahatchee Creek. I mean, I really noticed that cause I listened to my record St. I had all this frustrating creative energy. Kansas City's independent source for news and culture, Rose Marshack on life with Poster Children and her new book, Photos: Greensky Bluegrass bring their Dead-influenced sound to the Uptown, Premiere: Catty Cline is 'Leading You' to pop heaven. Heres what went down. Eliot. They hope their upcoming tour together will be as light and carefree as the project itself. Waxahatchee will perform at Knuckleheads in Kansas City on Tuesday, August 31. I returned to my roots, musically.. Crutchfield has been reading a lot too, currently trying to conquer Infinite Jest. People worldwide have absorbed . Truly I left with nothing at all DAOUD TYLER-AMEEN, BYLINE: This is the opening track of Waxahatchee's latest album, "Cerulean Salt." Saint Cloud and Sorceress sparked a bond between the two songwriters, and now theyve formed the duo Plains. The thing thats guided me putting one foot in front of the other with this project has been the record. March 27, 2020 "My first reaction was grief," says Katie Crutchfield, 31, the Alabama-born indie artist who records under the name Waxahatchee, and whose new album, the gloriously languid and. There is this level of, like, intimacy with the listener that she's telling you things that she can't even tell the people in her life. Thats been cool. They run and swim for exercise and go on walks for fresh air. ", "It's given me a little boost of confidence in my own intuition," Crutchfield says. Having an interest in music at an early age she used to play her music with her sister in her high school programs. The Magical Last Hours of the Flix Gonzlez-Torres Show. She was alone. Loneliness had been part of the mythology of Waxahatchee ever since her debut, American Weekend, recorded over one snowed-in week at her familys Alabama home. I Walked With You a Ways Tracklist 1. Where did this all start? KEITH SPENCER: She was pretty much running the show. ALLISON CRUTCHFIELD: We hit this point when we were 14, when we first started, where we kind of didn't hang out with anyone else. Its so natural right now for everyone to just immediately put a positive spin on whatever theyre going through. TYLER-AMEEN: Katie was born in 1989. Both grew up in Southern states where country music was omnipresent (Crutchfield, who records as Waxahatchee, in Alabama; Williamson in Texas). Her longtime favorite album, Williamss Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, was speaking to her in a way that felt new. "It was a pivot for me creatively and it was a bit of a risk," Crutchfield says. 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