Record of the Week: Waxahatchee 'Tigers Blood'

In 2012 Katie Crutchfield took the moniker of a creek by her house in central Alabama, the Waxahatchee creek and released the album American Weekend. Where she garnered a good amount of buzz in the blog era for being a songwriter in her early 20’s who was a vividly personal storyteller. “My life was so chaotic. As many people’s in their 20’s are, you know? It was just chocked full of drama. Everything was so intense and melodramatic and every slight or heartbreak was intensely recorded on those records.” Those records resonated, and then in 2020, just before everything happened, she released the album Saint Cloud. 

It’s ease and beauty sound tracked many people’s pandemics and made Waxahatchee a much larger success. It was a record that sounded like an artist no longer trying, but finding their truest self. She’s followed that with Tigers Blood, our Record of the Week on WNXP.