Katie Crutchfield has announced her sixth album as Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood, due out on March 22 via ANTI-, her first release for the label. It’s the follow-up to 2020’s fantastic Saint Cloud and her great 2022 collaborative album with Jess Williamson as Plains, and she wrote it largely during a “hot hand spell” on tour in late 2022. It was produced by Brad Cook, and also features Wednesday guitarist and solo artist MJ Lenderman, Jeff Tweedy’s son Spencer Tweedy, and Phil Cook. See the cover art and tracklist below.
The first single is “Right Back To It,” a mellow country-inflected duet with Lenderman, which also features his guitar and banjo from Phil Cook. “I wrote it backstage at Wolf Trap when I was on tour opening for Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow,” Crutchfield says. “I’m really interested in writing love songs that are gritty and unromantic. I wanted to make a song about the ebb and flow of a longtime love story. I thought it might feel untraditional but a little more in alignment with my experience to write about feeling insecure or foiled in some way internally, but always finding your way back to a newness or an intimacy with the same person.” Watch the video, directed by Corbett Jones and Nick Simonite, below.
Waxahatchee has also announced a spring and summer tour supporting Tigers Blood, beginning in April and May with North American dates with Good Morning, and continuing in August and September with shows with Tre Burt, Tim Heidecker, Snail Mail, Greg Mendez, and Gladie, varying by date. See all dates below.
The tour includes a couple of NYC shows: Brooklyn Paramount on April 27 with Good Morning, and Beacon Theatre on August 28. There’s also an Asbury Park, NJ show at Stone Pony Summerstage on September 1 with Snail Mail and Tim Heidecker. Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, January 12 at 10 AM local.
WAXAHATCHEE – TIGERS BLOOD TRACKLIST
1. 3 Sisters
2. Evil Spawn
3. Ice Cold
4. Right Back To It
5. Burns Out At Midnight
6. Bored
7. Lone Star Lake
8. Crimes Of The Heart
9. Crowbar
10. 365
11. The Wolves
12. Tigers Blood
WAXAHATCHEE: 2024 TOUR DATES
April 18 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater ^
April 19 – St. Paul, MN – Palace Theatre ^
April 20 – Chicago, IL – Salt Shed ^
April 21 – Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre ^
April 23 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall ^
April 25 – New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place ^
April 26 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre ^
April 27 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount Theatre ^
April 28 – Richmond, VA – The National ^
April 30 – Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel ^
May 1 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium ^
May 3 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live ^
May 4 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham Theater ^
May 5 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
May 6 – Birmingham, AL – Lyric Theatre ^
May 8 – Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom ^
May 9 – Fort Worth, TX – Tannahill’s Tavern & Music Hall ^
May 10 – Houston, TX – The Heights Theater ^
May 11 – Austin, TX – ACL Live at the Moody Theater ^
May 13 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren ^
May 14 – San Diego, CA – The Observatory North Park ^
May 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium ^
May 17 – Paso Robles, CA – Barrelhouse Brewing Co. ^
May 18 – Oakland, CA – Fox Theater ^
May 19 – Sonoma, CA – Gundlach Bundschu Winery ^
May 21 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Depot ^
May 23 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom ^
August 19 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall %
August 21 – Fort Collins, CO – Washington’s %
August 23 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant %
August 24 – Madison, WI – The Sylvee %
August 25 – Kalamazoo, MI – Bell’s Beer Garden %
August 26 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Warhol at Carnegie Music Hall %
August 28 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre
August 29 – South Deerfield, MA – Tree House Summer Stage &#
August 30 – Portland, ME – State Theater &#
August 31 – Accord, NY – Arrowood Farms &#
September 1 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Summerstage &#
September 6 – Vienna, VA – Filene Center – Wolf Trap &#
September 7 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore #@
September 8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore &+
^ w/ Good Morning
% w/ Tre Burt
# w/ Tim Heidecker
& w/ Snail Mail
+ w/ Greg Mendez
@ w/ Gladie