Waxahatchee, the solo project of Alabama-born and Kansas City-based Katie Crutchfield, is returning with her most confident and resilient album to date. Her first on new label home ANTI-, Tigers Blood, is due March 22nd.
Here, we see Crutchfield emerge as a powerhouse – an ethnologist of the self – forever dedicated to revisiting her wins and losses. But now she’s arriving at revelations, and she ain’t holding them back. Tigers Blood also finds Crutchfield folding new collaborators into her world, with performances on the album by MJ Lenderman, Spencer Tweedy and Phil and Brad Cook.
Alongside the album announcement, Waxahatchee shares the single ‘Right Back To It’ with a video directed by Corbett Jones & Nick Simonite. MJ Lenderman adds guitar and harmony vocals to the track, a nod to country duets like Emmylou Harris & Gram Parsons, winding over a steadfast banjo from Phil Cook.
Watch the video for ‘Right Back To It’ BELOW:
Crutchfield says that she wrote most of the songs on Tigers Blood during a “hot hand spell” while on tour at the end of 2022. And when it came time to record, Crutchfield returned to her trusted producer Brad Cook and the Sonic Ranch in the border town Tornillo, Texas, a collaborator and place that also helped bring her sound to a groundbreaking turning point on 2020’s Saint Cloud.
Saint Cloud was a breakthrough album for Waxahatchee, and despite being released at the height of the pandemic, it entered #1 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart & Top 10 on the Emerging Artist chart. It was a welcome musical escape for many and cemented her status as an important voice in the indie-Americana scene. Now, with Tigers Blood we see Crutchfield dig even deeper. The result is a complex and beautiful album that is sure to find a special place in people’s hearts once again.
Additionally, Waxahatchee announces a 2024 tour in support of Tigers Blood that kicks off with a hometown show at Kansas City’s Uptown Theater on April 18th and goes through September. Tour highlights include shows at New York’s Beacon Theatre and Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium. All dates can be found further below.
Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood // ANTI- Records – 22/03/24
1. 3 Sisters
2. Evil Spawn
3. Ice Cold
4. Right Back To It
5. Burns Out At Midnight
6. Bored
7. Lone Star Lake
8. Crimes Of The Heart
9. Crowbar
10. 365
11. The Wolves
12. Tigers Blood
Tour dates:
April 18th | Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater ^
April 19th | St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre ^
April 20th | Chicago, IL – Salt Shed ^
April 21st | Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre ^
April 23rd | Toronto, ON – Massey Hall ^
April 25th | New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place ^
April 26th | Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre ^
April 27th | Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre ^
April 28th | Richmond, VA – The National ^
April 30th | Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ^
May 1st | Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ^
May 3rd | St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ^
May 4th | Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theater ^
May 5th | Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
May 6th | Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre ^
May 8th | Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom ^
May 9th | Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall ^
May 10th | Houston, TX – The Heights Theater ^
May 11th | Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
May 13th | Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
May 14th | The Observatory North Park – San Diego, CA ^
May 16th | Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
May 17th | Paso Robles, CA – Barrelhouse Brewing Co. ^
May 18th | Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^
May 19th | Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
May 21st | Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot ^
May 23rd | Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom ^
August 19th | Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall %
August 21st | Fort Collins, CO – Washington’s %
August 23rd | St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
August 24th | Madison, WI – The Sylvee %
August 25th | Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden %
August 26th | Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall %
August 28th | New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
August 29th | South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Summer Stage &#
August 30th | Portland, ME – State Theater &#
August 31st | Accord, NY – Arrowood Farms &#
September 1st | Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage &#
September 6th | Vienna, VA – Filene Center – Wolf Trap &#
September 7th | Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore #@
September 8th | Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore &+
^ w/ Good Morning
% w/ Tre Burt
# w/ Tim Heidecker
& w/ Snail Mail
+ w/ Greg Mendez
@ w/ Gladie
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