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Katie Cruchfield

Katie Crutchfield is a 35 year old singer from Alabama. Her band is called Waxahatchee, after a river in Alabama.  Saint Cloud (2021) won the Libera Award, for independent music, for the album about getting sober. 

Tiger's Blood is her new album (Spotify).


Links:

How the Waxahatchee singer-songwriter got sober, moved to Kansas City, and made her best album yet (Rolling Stone).

New Yorker article (archive) "First-Person Singular" by Kelefa Sanneh.

The Unexpected Sunlight of Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud” New Yorker, by Jia Tolentino (archive)

2/25 Fallon


Tiny Desk Concert


Tiger's Blood YouTube

[Verse 1: Katie Crutchfield]

You come alive in the heat, you ain't crossing state lines

Stood up like a crepe myrtle, can't be killed or denied

Throw a brick through the window, leave your mess at my door

Lord knows sooner or later it'd wash up to shore

Lord knows sooner or later it'd wash up to shore


[Verse 2: Katie Crutchfield]

You're laughing and smiling, drove my Jeep through the mud

And your teeth and your tongue bright red from tiger's blood

We were young for so long, seersuckers of time

Drank someone else's juice, left only the rind

Drank someone else's juice and left only the rind


[Chorus: Katie Crutchfield & MJ Lenderman]

And I held it like a penny I found

It might bring me something, it might weigh me down

You got every excuse, but it's an eerie sound

Oh, when that siren blows, rings out all over town


[Verse 3: Katie Crutchfield]

Named after a city you ain't never seen

Spellbinding copperheads banging a tambourine

And it's the kiss of death, but it's the only way out

Galloped up to the mirror, looked her right in the mouth

Galloped up to the mirror, looked her right in the mouth



Right Back to It. (YouTube) (Colbert show)


Lyrics


photograph of us

in a spotlight

on a hot night

i was drifting in & out


reticent on the off chance 

i’m blunter than a bullseye

begging for peace of mind


i get ahead of myself

bracing for a bombshell


your love written on a blank check

wear it around your neck

i was at a loss


but you come to me on a fault line

deep inside a goldmine

hovering like a moth


i lose a bit of myself

laying out eggshells


i’ve been yours for so long

we come right back to it

i let my mind run wild

don’t know why i do it

but you just settle in

like a song with no end

if i can keep up

we’ll get right back to it


if i swerve in & out of my lane

burning up an old flame

turn a jealous eye


i’ll fall down into a fair game

lick a wound that was not

ever mine


i get ahead of myself

refusing anyone’s help


i’ve been yours for so long

we come right back to it

i let my mind run wild

i don’t know why i do it

but you just settle in

like a song with no end

if i can keep up

we’ll get right back to it


i’ve been yours for so long

we come right back to it

i let my mind run wild

don’t know why i do it

but you just settle in

like a song with no end

if i can keep up

we’ll get right back to it


we’ll get right back to it

we’ll get right back to it

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