Katie Crutchfield also announced a curated event at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch, where she and Williams will perform next spring
Your favorite indie duo is back: Waxahatchee has enlisted MJ Lenderman for a cover of Lucinda Williams‘ “Abandoned.”
Katie Crutchfield and Lenderman take Williams’ slow-burning rocker — from her 1988 self-titled album — and strip it down even further, trading verses and harmonizing on the chorus. The cover appears on Crutchfield’s new EP Apple Music Nashville Sessions, where Lenderman and producer Brad Cook also appear. The EP is rounded out by two renditions from her recent album Tigers Blood: her Lenderman duet “Right Back to It” and “Burns Out at Midnight.”
Crutchfield, a longtime Williams fan, also announced a curated event at Willie Nelson‘s Luck Ranch next year, where Williams and her band (as well as Crutchfield) will perform. The event occurs in Spicewood, Texas on March 14, during SXSW 2025. Other artists on the lineup include Bill Cahahan, Kam Franklin, and Brennan Wedl; tickets go on sale Friday.
Crutchfield dropped Tigers Blood, her follow-up to the excellent Saint Cloud, in March. The album, and the track “Right Back to It,” ranked high on Rolling Stone’s lists of Best Albums and Best Songs of 2024 (as did Lenderman’s massively successful album Manning Fireworks). And last month, Tigers Blood earned Crutchfield her first-ever Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album. The ceremony will take place on Feb. 2 in Los Angeles.
