This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Plus: each Wednesday, exclusively for subscribers, the best books of the week. Theres just so much. Subscribe Now! 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 am learning how to be alone TYLER-AMEEN: She called her new project Waxahatchee, the name of a nearby creek. I think that kind of gives us a little bit of freedom to try things, to experiment, randomly, and thats been really nice. 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. I had time to fully get back into whatever headspace the next record was going to be., The result of that reflective time is Crutchfields new album, Saint Cloud, due to arrive on March 27th. Cloud., A lot of Jesss songs were these old-school country waltzes, which I love, Crutchfield said, and it was a nice juxtaposition to the songs I was bringing in, which were a little more 90s pop-country or Southern-rock feeling.. Katies support was so important for me as we wrote this album. But by the time Katie felt ready to make a second Waxahatchee album, she was thinking a little bit bigger. All rights reserved. Six feet of distance. Together, the two songwriters craft stories of heartbreak, empathy and self-knowledge, bolstered by a wry wisdom and rooted in their shared love of classic country sounds. 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. 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. Getting to lean into the influence of the music we both grew up with while also making something that feels very current and fresh to me was a great experience, and Im so happy to finally share it., Making this record with Katie was a deeply expansive experience for me as a songwriter, Williamson added. AARON HAMILTON: It's simple for what it is. Rolling Stone ranked it the 7th best album of 2020, and Pitchfork named it 2nd. Katie Crutchfield recently read a diary entry from when she was 17 years old. CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) We've heard this summer GREENE: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. And I can connect with it in a way that I think a lot of people can't, because she's actually talking about things that I have experienced with her. Copyright 2013 NPR. During her struggle to remain sober Kevin was there by her side. But this is her first album that explicitly evokes the music she grew up with. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. So it's no surprise she has a whooping sum of networth. And I was like, oh yeah, I love that album and I completely forgot about that. But she was also finding breakthroughs. This page was last modified on 19 June 2021, at 07:46. They went on to release two albums 2009 'Introverted Romance in Our Troubled Mind and 2011 'Sadie' before parting the ways in 2011. All Rights reserved. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. Both singer-songwriters came of age in the South and started out in indie-rock. His partner, Katie Crutchfield, sits perched on his right, pulling down her plaid mask every so often for a sip of coffee. Plains (l-r Jess Williamson and Katie Crutchfield). The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time 7:19. Its been good to see, after moving so much all the time for so long, that I can stay still, she said. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. When that group split up, the Crutchfield's launched a new pop-punk group, P.S. CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) I'm not a whipper in the wind or solace laying at the bottom of a bottle, or your thick skin TYLER-AMEEN: Katie says, unlike "American Weekend," this album was a team effort. 14 of their 50 best albums of the year. With Jude Law and Jim Gaffigan as Captain Hook and Mr. Smee. Her other body measurement is yet not known. She barely. She has been active in the field of music since 2010 and still loves to follow her passion and dream. For years, Crutchfield says her excuse not to get sober was because of how substances influenced her writing. TYLER-AMEEN: It's mid-morning at Katie and Allison's new place in Philly, where they moved together last fall, and nearly every occupant of the house has crowded into the kitchen for breakfast. And then Keith and I kind of worked on them together. The 2017 album Out in the Storm added a full band, which has included Allison Crutchfield on keyboards, along with Katherine Simonetti on bass, Katie Harkin on guitar, and Ashley Arnwine on drums. Boards are the best place to save images and video clips. The name of her mother is Tracy Crutchfield. I have a feeling that thats probably how Plains is, too. Katie Crutchfield made her name last year with an album of songs recorded at home and released under the name Waxahatchee. For Williamson, Plains debut album I Walked With You a Ways, out Oct. 14, was something of an aesthetic continuation of her previous solo release. I like starting out a session like thatlets just be band in a room and play together and see what comes out. I didnt go to rehab or anything like that, she says, but I have a lot of sober friends and I have a lot of people I can talk to. 2023 Getty Images. Musician Katie Crutchfield has created music under several different identities, be it the pop-punk band she founded with her sister Allison, P.S. CRUTCHFIELD: (Singing) My gal and father, vomit and water, we're not alone here. TYLER-AMEEN: Katie was born in 1989. And a global pandemic put a complete halt to live music in her life until earlier this week, when she played three sold-out shows at Lemonade Park in the West Bottoms with her partner and fellow musician Kevin Morby. Katie Crutchfield, also known as Waxahatchee, conceived her fifth solo album,Saint Cloud, as a long, elliptical, autobiographical story. It was definitely one of those days, she says. I was like, Oh, like Im singing this so different now, and I was completely unaware. Whether its something happening right now or something that happened 100 years ago, some stories dont fit in the short few minutes of a newscast. The expanded two-day event includes Ari Lennox and GloRilla. That I can take joy in simplicity, that I can have these moments. CRUTCHFIELD: L kind of came to everyone and was like, guys, what if we call it "Blue" - just Blue. Movies. Eliot in 2007. But the album had to begin in Barcelona, in the frustration and clarity of early sobriety, which she captures on Oxbow. It felt like the beginning of the story, she said. It was a lot of just banging my head against the wall, she says. The 100 Best Albums of 2022, Saint Cloud signals a distinct shift in sound from her previous work. And I'll drink until I'm happy. It really was Spencer, Phil, Brad Cookthe produceron bass, and then me and Jess in a circle, playing the songs, and it was like first thought, best thought but just set up as band in a room. I grew up in a small city. She also has massive followers on her Instagram and Twitter handle where she gives updates about her music and personal lifeto her fans. Inside, it becomes clear this is a musicians home. In 2019, Lewis was immortalized in an Archie Comic that featured a cartoon version of the singer surrounded by other . Streamline your workflow with our best-in-class digital asset management system. She got sober. Its so funny how seamless it was. I mean, I feel like with Allison, the type of songs I was writing way back then and the understanding of the aesthetic of that and the message we were trying to haveit was always so nice to have this person who intimately understood that giving me a yes or a no or a this is great or this part needs work. Having somebody to help point me in the directionI think thats really important for anybody who has a solo project or writes songs. Crutchfield recorded her solo dbut, American Weekend, in 2012, in a single snowed-in week at her parents home, in Alabama; Waxahatchee is a reference to a nearby creek. As Katie Crutchfield eases her Jeep inside the garage, there's a nostalgic tone to the overhead door opener as the grinding chain strains to hoist the folding panels a suburban equivalent to car wheels on a gravel road. A lot has happened in the three years since Katie Crutchfield moved to Kansas City. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. Katie Crutchfield's fourth album as Waxahatchee, 'Out in the Storm,' is out now. In the winter, the sun goes down, and youre faced with yourself for the rest of the day with no distractions, like, Oh my God, Morby says. Ad Choices. TYLER-AMEEN: She'd gone through a couple of bad breakups. In early 2020, just before the pandemic, Waxahatchees Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson exchanged albums. He played all the keys, all the organ, all the lead guitars and dobro, the banjo, the mandolin. They run and swim for exercise and go on walks for fresh air. She and her twin sister had formed a band in high school which was broken up in a while. In the pandemic, these two love birds were captured and quarantined together. It wouldnt be the only one. As Waxahatchee, Katie Crutchfield has been chipping away at her craft for the better part of a decade, uncovering new forms as she goes along. Plains (l-r Jess Williamson and Katie Crutchfield). She has been trying to give herself permission to feel shitty about the situation, she told meabout not getting to bring the story she tells on the album full circle, on tour, not getting to experience it in the presence of other people. 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. As Plains comes to Knuckleheads on Saturday, November 19, we took the opportunity to speak with Crutchfield by phone from a tour stop in Washington D.C. about how her time in the area has affected her music. Time at home reminded Morby of the isolation-inspired work he had made shortly after he landed in Kansas City full time, when he spent hours in the shed studio even before installing heating and air toying with a four-track recorder and his guitar. That line, Ive got a problem with it, was such a filler line. She was inspired by her hometown 'Waxahatchee Creek' in Alabama for naming her band 'Waxahatchee '. "I'm a deep Lucinda fan," she says. Almost in a Leslie Knope kind of a way. Though they first met only five years ago, the musicians Katie Crutchfield and Jess Williamson have long walked parallel paths. 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. Cloud, too. Jess Williamson and Katie Crutchfield of Plains, a project born in the pandemic during long phone calls between the two musicians. Trending. Yeah. Whether or not I was conscious of it, I think I may have been subconsciously searching for that and I think that thats really whats led to my slow stroll toward country. I try to ask the questions that listeners want answered about the days most pressing issues and provide a place for residents to engage directly with newsmakers. Our Daily Breather: Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield On Cardi B And Pema Chodron. It was actually really sad, she says. She began thinking of Saint Cloud as an album that would relate a long, elliptical, autobiographical story. 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. Talking about her siblings, she has 2 sisters, Allision (twin sister) and Sydney Crutchfield (younger sister). It was like pulling teeth. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Katie and her twin sister Allison both share an interest in music. Katie Crutchfield, of Waxahatchee, is the most celebrated musician in a burgeoning Philadelphia scene. I talked about how I wanted to quit drinking, and that was so long ago., Its 11 a.m., but Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, is still in her pajamas, sitting in her twin sister Allisons backyard in Los Angeles. I was just in a bad mood. TYLER-AMEEN: Keith Spencer is one of the housemates and worked with Katie to arrange the new songs for a band. I have come back to that, and its great. "I wanted to step into that power a little bit.. Allison and Katie Crutchfield: Twin rock dreams prevail, Waxahatchee: A Lonesome Voice, Raised In Basements, https://www.bhamwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Katie_Crutchfield&oldid=180998, Pelfrey, David (June 1, 2006) "The Ackleys: Local high school kids charm with musical charisma. 7-Minute Listen. A week and a half after that, everything shut down. Her follow-up album came out in March. TYLER-AMEEN: That's Tracy Crutchfield. Wed both been so on the move constantly this has been the one place we can come when theres a slow moment. Crutchfield, 32, had spent years searching for a place that felt right for her base, jumping among Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Long Island, and her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Katie felt lost. Saint Cloud and Sorceress sparked a bond between the two songwriters, and now theyve formed the duo Plains. She recalls that in her solo project she might not have kept the lyrics heard in "Problem With It," but Williamson encouraged her to. "My experience on stage was really sort of like, 'I feel like I've never done this before in my entire life,'" Crutchfield said on KCUR's Up To Date. I really feel like I came back to the person I was before I started drinking, she says. Katie Crutchfield says the title was a compromise, after her band mates voted down her first idea. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. In addition to the shows you have played in Lawrence and Kansas City, you will occasionally pop up when Kevin Morby plays. Coming of age in the late 90s, they were shaped by mainstream country radios strong but ultimately fleeting embrace of powerhouse female artists: Williamson pored over the lyric booklets to the Chicks records; Crutchfield hummed along to Shania Twain, Martina McBride and Trisha Yearwood songs in the back of her parents car. 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