Before she drops 'Tigers Blood,' her follow-up to the smash-hit 'Saint Cloud,' Katie Crutchfield tells us how she learned to keep it simple.
, who started the project back in 2012, has comfortably ascended into her role as one of the genre’s lodestars.was earthy and inviting, the aural equivalent of stumbling upon warm shelter during a wintry storm. It struck a chord at an auspicious moment; Crutchfield’s soothing vocals and lived-in songwriting resonated with listeners all across the globe, catapulting her to new levels of indie fame.
CRUTCHFIELD: Of course. I really think this particular batch of songs is going to thrive and take on a new life the more that we play them, because that’s really how we developed them. Everything was just so improvised and it was all about bringing musicians together and seeing what happened organically. With all the players I’ve assembled for this run of shows, I just think it’s going to be really fresh every night.
CRUTCHFIELD: Well, I was always going to make the record with Brad. We didn’t even have a conversation about it. We went straight from working on. That collaboration started at the earliest points of writing the songs. I was just writing vocal melodies and kind of vibing out to certain things and didn’t even have lyrics. We had been living in the growth ofand the impact of that record, what that did for both of our careers.
SHARPLES: I think it’s cool that you’ve articulated the feeling of settling into a long-term love and joy of doing nothing together. It’s not represented in songs very much. SHARPLES: “Lone Star Lake” stood out to me. I believe that’s the one where you talk about the lake in Kansas and crossing state lines? Whenever I hear it, I’m like, “Hey, that’s where I am.”SHARPLES: Oh, really? I didn’t realize it was that close.
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