Indie rockers Waxahatchee and Kevin Morby have a very good reason to take a break from the road. The couple just welcomed their first child together, with Morby announcing the good news on his Substack on Wednesday (July 22), revealing that he had it back home from a European tour with no time to spare.
“I returned from my European tour just in time. For our little beautiful baby to kick the door in two weeks ahead of schedule,” Morby wrote of the child born on Tuesday (July 21), whose name he did not reveal. “The tour — as amazing as it was — was somewhat tense having to leave a very pregnant Katie [Crutchfield] at home.”
Crutchfield revealed that she was pregnant in April during the first date of her co-headlining acoustic tour with MJ Lenderman, where she told the crowd, “This is a song about having a baby. This one’s going to hit a little different for me now.”
In his Substack announce, Morby continued, “We all found ourselves holding our collective breath that he wouldn’t come too early. And like clockwork, I was home all but eight hours before Katie’s water broke. I like to think that the little guy waited for me. His due date was August first but luckily we get some extra time with him. Who we thought would be a Leo is now a Cancer. He is perfect … Katie’s such a badass. But yall already knew that.”
Morby said the blessed event will mean he has to drop out of his planned performance at Bon Iver’s Eaux Claires festival this weekend in Wisconsin. “I was looking forward to jamming with Justin and Aaron [Dessner] which was going to feel very full circle but I know we will have lots of jamming in our futures. Sending everyone there my love this weekend,” he wrote. “For now, in terms of jamming, I’m going to be holding this little ball of magic while listening to Grouper — ‘Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping’ on repeat. We are so in love with him.”
The post included a picture of a shirtless Morby snuggling with the little guy and a smiling Crutchfield cradling the newborn in the hospital.
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