Waxahatchee by Molly Matalon
Last week, Katie Crutchfield performed her 2020 Waxahatchee album live in its entirety.
None of your 25 or 50 year milestones round here; Katie Crutchfield has waited just twelve months to present an anniversary reissue of her Waxahatchee LP Saint Cloud, updated with covers of Fruits Of My Labor by Lucinda Williams, Dolly Parton’s Light Of A Clear Blue Morning and Bruce Springsteen’s Streets Of Philadelphia.
Saint Cloud was a Live4ever album of the year in 2020, on which Crutchfield ‘has never sounded more at home’:
“Knowing yourself again means being comfortable in taking new forms, and the best moments here – the sweetly harmonious Lilacs, Arkadelphia’s desultory charm, the glittering slow dance quality of the title-track – are tokens of a writer taking bold, courageous steps forward.”
“It’s proof that not every dry well lacks magic. Saint Cloud’s backstory is one familiar with the telling, presented throughout history in many forms by the raw-boned female soothsayers of Katie Crutchfield’s upbringing.”
