Waxahatchee, the project of Katie Crutchfield, shares an NPR Tiny Desk Concert today featuring songs from her GRAMMY®-nominated album Tigers Blood and her beloved 2020 album Saint Cloud. This is Crutchfield’s second performance at the famed Tiny Desk.
Tigers Blood is one of 2024’s most critically lauded albums, which earned Crutchfield her first GRAMMY® Awards nomination in the Best Americana Album category. It has landed in the on year-end lists at TIME Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Consequence, Stereogum, Paste and more.
Earlier this month Crutchfield announced that she is curating an event at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch in Spicewood, TX taking place on March 14th during SXSW. The line-up features Waxahatchee, Lucinda Williams and her band, Futurebirds, Bill Callahan, Kam Franklin, Brennan Wedl, and other special guests.
PRAISE FOR TIGERS BLOOD:
“Katie Crutchfield has one of those voices-rich, effortless, so perfectly suited to her songs-that make it easy to forget just how remarkable it is. Yet her vocals, which swing from earthy to spectral, contain enormous amounts of pathos, boredom, joy, anxiety, resignation, hope.” -The New Yorker, Best Albums of 2024
“A stunning set of easygoing downhome tunes cataloging the travails and charms of mid-30s living” -TIME Magazine, Best Albums of 2024
“The casual confidence, lived-in wisdom and patiently unfurling melodies of Tigers Blood offer a more laid-back kind of gratification that keeps on giving throughout her sixth album.” -New York Times, Best Albums of 2024
“Crutchfield sings with the self-recrimination of a perfectionist, a bearer of high standards who believes her potential is limitless-with each subsequent entry in the Waxahatchee canon, it’s hard not to believe her.” -Pitchfork, Best Albums of 2024
“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 it together — in the poetic voice of a Lucinda Williams who came of age playing DIY punk-house basement shows.” -Rolling Stone, Best Albums of 2024
“Crutchfield frees herself completely in these rambling yet tightly executed songs.” –NPR, Best Albums of 2024
“In her long, gradual journey into country and folk, Crutchfield has discovered new shades of her already-spectacular voice and new ways to convey serene yearning.” -Stereogum, Best Albums of 2024
“Katie Crutchfield has found a home making glistening, easygoing country music.” –Vulture, Best Songs of 2024
“Such viscerally aching songwriting paired with heartbroken harmonies is a potent combination – and yet, there’s a comfort to ‘Right Back to It’ that keeps listeners, well, coming back to it.” -Billboard, Best Songs of 2024
“If there were a cheat code for creating a modern classic Americana song, Katie Crutchfield found it” –Consequence, Best Albums of 2024
“When the dust settles on the best album of Katie Crutchfield’s career, what we’re left with is the deeply human beauty of Tigers Blood.” –Paste, Best Albums of 2024
“Dizzyingly vulnerable and dazzlingly intimate, Tigers Blood is a staggering release, full of heart, wisdom and freedom” –Holler, Best Albums of 2024
“It’s the kind of song you know you’ll want to play again immediately within the first 60 seconds, and again and again after that.” –UPROXX, Best Songs of 2024
TIGERS BLOOD
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- 3 Sisters
- Evil Spawn
- Ice Cold
- Right Back to It
- Burns Out at Midnight
- Bored
- Lone Star Lake
- Crimes of the Heart
- Crowbar
- 365
- The Wolves
- Tigers Blood
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