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 away from: her Southern country roots.
“In my 20s — when I was super punk, underground and wanted to be as avant-garde as humanly possible — I didn’t want that to be a part of my story,” Crutchfield said during a recent phone interview. “It’s been really freeing to circle back and be really honest about how at the very foundation of my music, this is what’s there.”
Crutchfield, who performs under the moniker Waxahatchee, named after a creek from her childhood home in Alabama, will be embarking on a tour next month with her new country project Plains, which features singer-songwriter Jess Williamson.
