I Walked With You a Ways by Plains

I Walked With You a Ways is the first album from Plains, the partnership of Katie Crutchfield, better known as Waxahatchee, and Jess Williamson, released on Anti- on 14 October 2022. The two Southern songwriters met in 2017 at an Austin restaurant, introduced by Crutchfield's partner Kevin Morby, and hit it off. When the pandemic grounded the tours for their 2020 albums, Saint Cloud and Sorceress, long morning walks spent talking on the phone turned into a plan to make a record together.

They wrote their songs apart but pushed each other out of old habits: Williamson reached for new sounds, Crutchfield let lyrics stand that she might once have reworked. What came out leans into the country music of the South they grew up in, Americana with a country-pop shine, warm and unhurried. "Problem With It" is the song that stuck, and "Hurricane" lets the ache in.

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