Waxahatchee is Katie Crutchfield, the Alabama-born songwriter (b. 1989) who named the project after a creek near her childhood home. From lo-fi, punk-tinged beginnings — she cut her teeth in P.S. Eliot with twin sister Allison — the catalog opens into the rootsy, sobriety-informed Americana of Saint Cloud (2020), the place to start. Find Waxahatchee vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Waxahatchee is the recording project of Katie Crutchfield, an American singer-songwriter born in Alabama in 1989. She took the name from Waxahatchee Creek near her childhood home. After early work in the punk band P.S. Eliot with her twin sister Allison, Crutchfield developed Waxahatchee from intimate lo-fi recordings into a celebrated indie project, reaching wide acclaim with the country- and Americana-influenced Saint Cloud.
Waxahatchee's music has moved from lo-fi indie rock and punk-tinged songwriting toward warm indie folk, Americana, and alt-country. Across this evolution, Crutchfield's vivid, confessional lyrics and clear, expressive voice remain central. Saint Cloud in particular marked a celebrated turn toward rootsy clarity and sobriety-informed songwriting.
Waxahatchee's catalog, including releases on Merge and Don Giovanni, has appeared in colored-vinyl variants, with Saint Cloud a popular collector title. Early lo-fi releases are of interest to fans tracing Crutchfield's evolution.
Listeners new to Waxahatchee often start with Saint Cloud (2020) or Cerulean Salt (2013). For related listening, see and .
