Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman launch cowl of Lucinda Williams’ ‘Deserted’

Waxahatchee and MJ Lenderman have launched a canopy of Lucinda Williams‘ ‘Deserted’ – take heed to it beneath.

The singer-songwriters teamed as much as carry out the track by the nation veteran, who will co-headline a present with Waxahatchee – actual identify Katie Crutchfield – in March 2025.

Crutchfield recorded the track as a part of ‘Apple Music Nashville Periods’, a three-track EP issued solely on Apple Music on Wednesday (December 4).

The EP additionally contains a rendition of ‘Proper Again To It’, her Lenderman collaboration featured on this 12 months’s ‘Tigers Blood’, which additionally noticed the ‘Manning Fireworks’ musician play in her backing band by way of its twelve tracks. Hearken to the ‘Apple Music Nashville Periods’ EP on the streaming platform here.

Crutchfield has additionally introduced a one-day live performance at Willie Nelson’s Luck Ranch on March 14, 2025 – it's going to see a personally-curated line-up of acts that embody co-headliner Williams, Futurebirds, Invoice Callahan, Kam Franklin, and Brennan Wedl, with extra acts to be introduced down the road. Tickets can be found here.

In NME‘s five-star evaluate of ‘Tigers Blood’, Mia Hughes praised Crutchfield’s choice to recuit Lenderman as “a stroke of brilliance”, writing: “On ‘Evil Spawn’, he joins the refrain to accentuate its triumphant us-against-the-world sneer, whereas his most memorable contribution is on the album’s standout, ‘Proper Again to It’ — his plaintive harmonies make the track ache with romantic give up.”

‘Tigers Blood’ sees Crutchfield presenting songs a few life in her mid-thirties lived after reaching sobriety, which was expanded intimately in her standout 2020 album ‘Saint Cloud’.

She instructed NME: “I feel what I used to be fearful of was it being boring or mundane. I’m at an age now the place my life is much less dramatic. If you’re in your twenties, it’s all chaos and melodrama, which is beautiful fodder for songwriting.”

“Now, it might really feel actually inauthentic for me to put in writing about that kind of factor. That’s simply not likely what my day-to-day life is like anymore.”

In June 2025, Crutchfield will embark on a UK tour, together with her greatest ever headline date within the nation at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

Each Crutchfield and Lenderman secured spots on NME‘s 50 finest albums of 2024. On Lenderman’s ‘Manning Fireworks’, Karen Gwee wrote: ““Kahlua shooter, DUI scooter,” MJ Lenderman drawls on ‘Joker Lips’. Economic system is the Wednesday guitarist’s watchword on solo album ‘Manning Fireworks’.”

“That devastating precision offers his portraits of sad-sacks, losers and egotists both a withering edge or empathetic nuance – generally each in the identical track. An understated triumph.”