WAXAHATCHEE
Mar 19, 2020
3 minutes
By Emily Mackay
Saint Cloud
MERGE
8/10
“YOU have to grow up, start paying the rent and have your heart broken before you understand country,” Emmylou Harris said in 2008, explaining why, as a Southern teen, she initially rejected “boring” country music in favour of the folk revival.
It’s a familiar tale to another musician from Harris’s hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, Katie Crutchfield. Raised on classic country, punk led her astray, which exorcised a bad relationship in noisy guitars, thrilling in the potential energy of coming back to yourself.
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