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Waxahatchee on success and sobriety: ‘You don’t have to be tortured to make interesting art’

Since finding acclaim with her country-tinged songs about quitting drinking, the artist has set out on a more experimental path. She talks self-discovery, finding inspiration in everyday life and conjuring an ‘epic’ album

Released in March of that year, Crutchfield’s collection of introspective, country-tinged indie rock songs – about her 2017 decision to quit drinking, and exploring her newly sober self – resonated with listeners getting to know themselves again during lockdown. When she quit drinking and moved to Kansas City to be with Morby – having spent her life touring and bouncing between her home town Birmingham, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and Long Island – a friend warned her that she wouldn’t recognise herself for a while. Had I had a lot of success really young, I think that would have been a mess When Crutchfield first saw Lenderman perform, at South by Southwest a few years ago, she felt drawn to collaborate with him: “He’s got such a great, gritty, southern-sounding way of playing guitar that I really love.”

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