Listening parties begin on March 21st at participating independent record stores listed below.
THE DAY BEFORE THE RELEASE of the new album

Signed test pressings will be contested at each event,
and exclusive merchandise and poster giveaways will be offered to attendees (limited quantities, while supplies last).

TIGERS BLOOD

available march 22, 2024

One of the hardest-working singer-songwriters in the game is named Katie Crutchfield.
She was born in alabama, grew up near waxahatchee creek. skipped town and struck out on her own as Waxahatchee.
That was over a decade ago.
Crutchfield says she never knew the road would lead her here, but after six critically acclaimed albums, she’s never felt more confident in herself as an artist.
While her sound has evolved from lo-f i folk to lush alt-tinged country, her voice has always remained the same. honest and close, poetic with southern lilting.
Much like Carson McCullers’s Mick Kelly, determined in her desires and convictions, ready to tell whoever will listen.

And after years of being sober and stable in Kansas city–after years of sacrificing herself to her work and the road–Crutchfield has arrived at her most potent songwriting yet.
On her new album, ‘Tigers Blood’, Crutchfield emerges 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.

Crutchfield says that she wrote most of the songs on ‘Tigers Blood’ during a “hot hand spell,” while on tour in the end of 2022.
And when it came time to record, Crutchfield returned to her trusted producer Brad Cook, who brought her sound to a groundbreaking turning point on 2020’s ‘Saint Cloud.’

‘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.