Katie Crutchfield is back with her follow-up to Waxahatchee's excellent 2020 album Saint Cloud; she's just announced her sixth solo album, Tigers Blood, due to arrive March 22 via her new label home, ANTI-, as well as an accompanying tour.
The Kansas City-based singer-songwriter wrote the album during a "hot hand spell" while on tour at the end of 2022, according to press materials. Its studio recording finds her teaming up with Wednesday's MJ Lenderman, as well as Spencer Tweedy and Phil and Brad Cook. Phil Cook and Lenderman appear on the country Emmylou Harris-indebted lead single "Right Back to It," which arrives today alongside a video by Corbett Jones and Nick Simonite, and sees Crutchfield and Lenderman floating blissfully down a river on a pontoon boat.
Crutchfield said of the track, "I wrote it backstage at Wolf Trap when I was on tour opening for Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow. I'm really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic. I wanted to make a song about the ebb and flow of a longtime love story. I thought it might feel untraditional but a little more in alignment with my experience to write about feeling insecure or foiled in some way internally, but always finding your way back to a newness or an intimacy with the same person."
A North American tour for Tigers Blood kicks off in April, and includes a single Canadian date: Toronto's Massey Hall on the 23rd, with support from Good Morning.
Watch the "Right Back to It" video below, where you'll also find the tracklist for Tigers Blood and Waxahatchee's complete North American tour schedule.
Tigers Blood:
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
Waxahatchee 2024 Tour Dates:
04/18 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater ^
04/19 St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre ^
04/20 Chicago, IL – Salt Shed ^
04/21 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre ^
04/23 Toronto, ON – Massey Hall ^
04/25 New Haven, CT – Toad's Place ^
04/26 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre ^
04/27 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre ^
04/28 Richmond, VA – The National ^
04/30 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ^
05/01 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ^
05/03 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ^
05/04 Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theater ^
05/05 Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
05/06 Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre ^
05/08 Tulsa, OK – Cain's Ballroom ^
05/09 Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall ^
05/10 Houston, TX – The Heights Theater ^
05/11 Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
05/13 Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
05/14 San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park ^
05/16 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
05/17 Paso Robles, CA – Barrelhouse Brewing Co. ^
05/18 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^
05/19 Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
05/21 Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot ^
05/23 Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom ^
08/19 Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall %
08/21 Fort Collins, CO – Washington's %
08/23 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
08/24 Madison, WI – The Sylvee %
08/25 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell's Beer Garden %
08/26 Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall %
08/28 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
08/29 South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Summer Stage &#
08/30 Portland, ME – State Theater &#
08/31 Accord, NY – Arrowood Farms &#
09/01 Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage &#
09/06 Vienna, VA – Filene Center - Wolf Trap &#
09/07 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore #@
09/08 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore &+
^ with Good Morning
% with Tre Burt
# with Tim Heidecker
& with Snail Mail
+ with Greg Mendez
@ with Gladie
The Kansas City-based singer-songwriter wrote the album during a "hot hand spell" while on tour at the end of 2022, according to press materials. Its studio recording finds her teaming up with Wednesday's MJ Lenderman, as well as Spencer Tweedy and Phil and Brad Cook. Phil Cook and Lenderman appear on the country Emmylou Harris-indebted lead single "Right Back to It," which arrives today alongside a video by Corbett Jones and Nick Simonite, and sees Crutchfield and Lenderman floating blissfully down a river on a pontoon boat.
Crutchfield said of the track, "I wrote it backstage at Wolf Trap when I was on tour opening for Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow. I'm really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic. I wanted to make a song about the ebb and flow of a longtime love story. I thought it might feel untraditional but a little more in alignment with my experience to write about feeling insecure or foiled in some way internally, but always finding your way back to a newness or an intimacy with the same person."
A North American tour for Tigers Blood kicks off in April, and includes a single Canadian date: Toronto's Massey Hall on the 23rd, with support from Good Morning.
Watch the "Right Back to It" video below, where you'll also find the tracklist for Tigers Blood and Waxahatchee's complete North American tour schedule.
Tigers Blood:
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
Waxahatchee 2024 Tour Dates:
04/18 Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater ^
04/19 St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre ^
04/20 Chicago, IL – Salt Shed ^
04/21 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre ^
04/23 Toronto, ON – Massey Hall ^
04/25 New Haven, CT – Toad's Place ^
04/26 Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre ^
04/27 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre ^
04/28 Richmond, VA – The National ^
04/30 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ^
05/01 Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ^
05/03 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ^
05/04 Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theater ^
05/05 Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
05/06 Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre ^
05/08 Tulsa, OK – Cain's Ballroom ^
05/09 Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill's Tavern & Music Hall ^
05/10 Houston, TX – The Heights Theater ^
05/11 Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
05/13 Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
05/14 San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park ^
05/16 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
05/17 Paso Robles, CA – Barrelhouse Brewing Co. ^
05/18 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^
05/19 Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
05/21 Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot ^
05/23 Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom ^
08/19 Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall %
08/21 Fort Collins, CO – Washington's %
08/23 St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
08/24 Madison, WI – The Sylvee %
08/25 Kalamazoo, MI – Bell's Beer Garden %
08/26 Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall %
08/28 New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
08/29 South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Summer Stage &#
08/30 Portland, ME – State Theater &#
08/31 Accord, NY – Arrowood Farms &#
09/01 Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage &#
09/06 Vienna, VA – Filene Center - Wolf Trap &#
09/07 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore #@
09/08 Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore &+
^ with Good Morning
% with Tre Burt
# with Tim Heidecker
& with Snail Mail
+ with Greg Mendez
@ with Gladie