{"id":249293,"date":"2026-04-14T14:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:35:08","slug":"mj-lenderman-waxahatchee-cover-choosin-texas-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249293\/","title":{"rendered":"MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee Cover &#8216;Choosin&#8217; Texas&#8217;: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The indie-rock collaborators duetted on Ella Langley\u2019s chart-topper at their tour opener in Atlanta<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tKatie Crutchfield and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mj-lenderman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mj-lenderman\" data-tag=\"mj-lenderman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MJ Lenderman<\/a> had at least one deeply unexpected song choice at last night\u2019s tour opener in Atlanta: A cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ella-langley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ella-langley\" data-tag=\"ella-langley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Langley<\/a>\u2019s \u201cChoosin\u2019 Texas.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWith both singers playing acoustic, Crutchfield \u2014 who performs as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/waxahatchee\/\" id=\"auto-tag_waxahatchee\" data-tag=\"waxahatchee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Waxahatchee<\/a> \u2014\u00a0took lead on the blockbuster country song, with Lenderman pitching in on harmony during the chorus. Though Langley\u2019s song is currently the most popular song in the country and has topped the Hot 100 for much of the spring, it is a surprisingly traditionally structured and musically conservative song for a 2020s pop crossover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tLangley recently explained that the song, which was co-written with Miranda Lambert, started with Langley asking Lambert to confirm a fanciful story she\u2019d heard about Lambert getting stopped by the police with animals in her car. \u201cWe were at this writers retreat, and I just asked,\u201d Langley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/ella-langley-choosin-texas-interview-1235536275\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> Rolling Stone, \u201cShe had a dog in the back and a kangaroo in the passenger seat, and got pulled over. I said randomly, \u2018I\u2019m sure [the police officer] was like, She\u2019s from Texas, I can tell.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPerformed as a stripped down acoustic duet, it blended seamlessly into Crutchfield and Lenderman\u2019s encore of alt-country covers (Lucinda Williams\u2019 \u201cAbandoned,\u201d the Jayhawks\u2019 \u201cAll the Right Reasons,\u201d and Kathleen Edwards\u2019 \u201cSix O:Clock News\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring the main set, Lendermand and Crutchfield traded off on each other\u2019s songs, with Waxahatchee mostly sticking to her 2020\u2019s catalogue and Lenderman alternating between tunes from Manning Fireworks and Boat Songs. The pair also performed \u201cAngel Wings,\u201d a song from their 2025 collaborative project Snocaps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter making a name for herself in DIY indie rock circles in the 2010s, Waxahatchee has embraced a breezier, Lucinda Williams-inspired sound on her last few breakthrough records Saint Cloud and Tiger\u2019s Blood. She dipped her feet further into country music on her 2022 album Plains, where she covered songs by the Chicks, Terry Allen, and Loretta Lynn on tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The indie-rock collaborators duetted on Ella Langley\u2019s chart-topper at their tour opener in Atlanta Katie Crutchfield and MJ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30943,94674,27,29,28,94675],"class_list":["post-249293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-ella-langley","tag-mj-lenderman","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-waxahatchee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}