Waxahatchee is the outlet of Alabama-born and Kansas City-based artist Katie Crutchfield. Naming the project after Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama where she grew up, Crutchfield released her bedroom-recorded debut LP as Waxahatchee, American Weekend, in 2012. It was followed by Cerulean Salt (2013), Ivy Tripp (2015), Out in the Storm (2017), and Saint Cloud (2020).