{"id":805777,"date":"2020-03-27T15:37:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=973945"},"modified":"2020-03-27T15:37:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:37:31","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-waxahatchee-oxbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-waxahatchee-oxbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Waxahatchee, \u2018Oxbow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/waxahatchee_by_molly_matalon.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Happy release day to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/waxahatchee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_waxahatchee\" data-tag=\"waxahatchee\">Waxahatchee<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/waxahatchees-saint-cloud-972544\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Saint Cloud<\/em><\/a>, singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/waxahatchee-saint-cloud-interview-940483\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best album yet.<\/a> In it, she embraces Americana and country-rock, deviating from the thrashing indie-rock she became known for in her previous work and returning to her southern roots of Birmingham, Alabama, while citing Lucinda Williams and Linda Ronstadt as inspirations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOxbow,\u201d the first track on the album, serves as a window opening into this new territory \u2014 a big, booming welcome that features the drums of Nick Kinsey, who came up with the beat on the spot at the West Texas studio where they recorded. Throughout the track, Crutchfield sets the stage for the rest of the songs and their imagery, where red roses are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/waxahatchee-cant-do-much-saint-cloud-967292\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrapped around her microphone<\/a> and a parked pick-up truck basks in the sunshine, slow-burning tunes drifting out from the dashboard\u2019s radio into the truck bed. She lures in listeners with a homespun narrative: \u201cBarna in white\/Married the night,\u201d she sings. \u201cWhat dreams become concrete\/They may feel trite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The track is sweet and concise, barely reaching three minutes. It concludes with a simple refrain, as Crutchfield sings \u201cI want it all.\u201d You might wonder what <em>all<\/em> even is. Love? Freedom? Success? But it doesn\u2019t matter. What matters are her consuming vocals, echoing the statement over and over again, as you play the song on repeat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/waxahatchee-oxbow-973945\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy release day to Waxahatchee\u2019s Saint Cloud, singer-songwriter Katie Crutchfield\u2019s best album yet. In it, she embraces Americana and country-rock, deviating from the thrashing indie-rock she became known for in her previous work and returning to her southern roots of Birmingham, Alabama, while citing Lucinda Williams and Linda Ronstadt as inspirations. \u201cOxbow,\u201d the first track [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 01:57:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}