Katie Pruitt

Her debut album, Expectations, is a revelation: beautifully voiced pop roots country with a Fleetwood Mac slant and an explicit gay POV.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1v30ZLtb2nYIWqDto4GuIP?si=7SrOgwxpRwiHMUNm6chZRA

Sounds great live too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybHjek5CbJo

via Indexed (and hat tip for the find!)

https://www.nashvillescene.com/music/features/article/21116886/katie-pruitt-is-herself-on-expectations

https://americansongwriter.com/katie-pruitt-elevates-herself-on-expectations/hal-horowitz/

currently touring:
https://katiepruitt.com/tour1

in nyc on april 15, i'm gonna go
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/katie-pruitt-tickets-82070929359

I support this thread.

Thanks for the heads up on the tour!

So impressed with this debut. Patient, well-developed songs with memorable hooks that build to great heights. Lyrics are honest and decidedly young-adult/queer, which some may find cheesy - I think they're endearing.

lol there are three of us. We will be more soon!

This album is brilliant.

Not that I have any issues with ‘The Golden Hour’ at all, but some of the more hyperbolic descriptions of that album would better fit this.

well this is certainly the stuff

just crying to "normal" which is totally normal

lol there are three of us. We will be more soon!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, March 5, 2020 3:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

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the guitar tone on "expectations"... exquisite

god was a word i had spoken but i hardly knew
kneelin' down at the altar with no clue who i was talkin' to

heard one of her songs on NPR the other day and was immediately hooked

I'm kind of torn on this record. I love her voice and her lyrics, but I have to admit that I wanted more of the more ornate, Fleetwood Mac style stuff like "Expectations" and fewer of the lower tempo ballads.

I adore “Expectations” but I think the ballads here are super strong, and everything sounds amazing on headphones even when there’s no bruised Buckingham guitar.

I'm usually wary of people comparing stuff to Joni's Blue - in particular when it's in service of some relatively vaguely conceived notion of confessionalism or transparency - but Emily's songwriting reminds of Blue the way that Taylor's best songwriting circa Red did, in particular the sense that what is experienced as transparency is the product of some excellently-executed compositional choices.

I mean, this just strikes me as a really neat piece of songwriting:

Some days I can't get outta my own head
"You could start by getting outta bed", she said,
"One day, you know we'll both be dead
So why don't we do some living?"
Some days I don't know who to trust
In the rain my spirit starts to rust
She said, "You're being way too generous
With all the fucks you're giving"

this is my favorite album. "out of the blue" was kicking my ass today

The sunset, it bled orange and red
In a perfect explosion behind your head

She's playing live on this right now: https://www.tonashvillewithlove.org/

like as we speak, so click it

what a fucking voice she has

thanks for that; it was enjoyable

is there another album coming out this year that i'm gonna love more than this. seems unlikely

well that post was very much in character

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2020/03/09/813630112/katie-pruitt-makes-a-powerful-declaration-on-expectations

huh her band is fantastic

One thing I noticed playing this in the car is just how loud a lot of the "quiet" songs ultimately get - so many of these songs culminate in these skyscraping caterwaul conclusions, like Katie is making a country-pop equivalent of the first Sinead O'Connor album.

otm; the dynamics are what stood out most to me on my first listen. I do most of my listening on headphones at the office, and there were more than a few times where some song was floating along in a beautifully hypnotic way and then just blew up on the back of her powerful vocals.

"Out of the Blue" is a great example - I hear some of Golden Hour on this track, some middle ground between "Slow Burn" and "Butterflies." A violin plucked chorus on a self-produced country debut is totally unexpected and impressive for how well it works.

Hard to pick a favorite but I'd bet "Normal" will make a lot of country SOTY lists.

Nothing else on this scales the heights of Expectations, but that's no shame. The rest is very nice.

damn this is really something huh?

yep

washed hand fingers crossed that venues are open for this tour

Just got an email that her Toronto gig's been "postponed" :/

incredible album wow

"out of the blue" + "grace has a gun + "loving her"... completely unreal

looking at this through a very personal POV i just pick up direct traces of some of my absolute fav songwriters: miranda, taylor, kacey

and the world cafe performance goes off

Some of this gets a little YA for me, but the execution level is so high and her voice just kills. As others pointed out above, the dynamics are really important, the way the songs/her voice just explode at unexpected moments.

I meant to say, that the execution and her voice pretty much overwhelm my reservations.

yeah for sure... i.e. “normal” could be pretty treacly except for what you describe

imo regardless of their purported ya-ness her lyrics are constructed very carefully

Did they want what's best or did they want what's easiest?
'Cause I tried my best, but God damn, was I curious

And she had me high as the sun on a Saturday afternoon
With no way to unsee this side of me that she introduced

I have fallen for this album

"normal"'s chorus is more broadly-written than the verses but i think that approach works, a kind of telescoping out from from the details to the general that's working through the whole record

the only set of lyrics on this that doesn't really work for me is "searching for the truth," saved pretty much entirely by 1) being a fucking awesome song anyway, and 2) "everybody's full of shit there's no denyin'"

I like this album. It makes more sense to me sitting alongside Julien Baker and the boygenius crowd than, like, Kacey or Miranda or whatever. Or maybe as a midpoint between the two?

Yeah, even the YA moments are *good* YA moments.

the video for loving her is simultaneously the gayest and most nashville set of visuals you could ask for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md20eWBsRYo

When she says she couldn't write a song and say *her* name, she never actually says *her* name, correct?

been listening to her live EP on spotify and all the non-album tracks aren't particularly good... smart editing by her and her people!

I'm not into country music much at all but this has entered straight into my heart and "Normal" makes me feel like I'm 15 again, I bet if I was a teenager this would be the most important album

I'm reminded of that first Years & Years album in the way that it captures the exact mix of emotions that comes only from growing up identifying as LGBT

also, getting shades of Kathleen Edwards in her voice

via her newsletter

Katie will be doing an exclusive live-streamed performance for her biggest fans inside of her private "Loveposting" Facebook group. To take part, all you have to do is join the group and tune in next Monday, 4/13, at 6PM CST!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KPfangroup/

Katie will be going live with Luck Reunion and Amazon Music on Hello Walls this Sunday, 4/12, at 8PM CST, streamed through Twitch and Luck Reunion's website.
http://luckreunion.com/

Rounder Records is taking over Shut In and Sing, a live-stream concert series by Stageit on 4/19. Katie will be performing there among other great artists like Sierra Ferrell, Caroline Spence, and Darin & Brooke Aldridge. Grab tickets here!
https://www.stageit.com/shut_in_sing/rounder_records_take_over_with_sierra_ferrell_darin_brooke_aldridge_katie_pruitt_caroline_spence_jerry_douglas_sierra_hull/72100

also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRj7QSDI5Yk

one more to hang on to for the yuletide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGcxR1kjd-4

live facebook concert starting momentarily
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KPfangroup/

I think I will cry forever

https://youtu.be/6KZLToJN3I0

Going through some dreadful shit with my kid at the moment and that has broken me.

(I don't know that I think music should *do* this - be so naked and confessional without some recourse to metaphor to hide the pain - but damn all the same.)

incredible

What an amazing artist.

In awe of her.

best of luck with your kid, Chinaski

my mom's going thru hard stuff with her kid (my sister) rn and it is just heartbreaking

New song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5VDon4o6A8

wow that's fuckin great. in keeping with her tendency to put across material that has the potential to be sort of corny or broad but the sharpness and simplicity and specificity of her writing avoids slipping over that edge. 100 percent earnest without the sludge of sentimentality. fine line to walk and she walks the hell out of it

Her voice kills me. Love the last line of this bit coming out of the break:

Headlines are bleeding red/ with the name of a man that I've never met/ cuffed on the street with a knee on his neck/ and tears spilling out of his eyes/
Are we heartless or are we numb?/ Changing the channel on the television/ and telling ourselves we're not the ones/ and refusing to apologize

This is so great. Katie releasing a song addressing the political environment of 2020 was not on my bingo card but of course she smashes it out of the park.

Also it’s a lot harder than anything on the album? Like it vaguely reminds me of The Killers’ “When You Were Young” (but, like, with coherent lyrics about something).

She's doing a livestream to her Facebook fan group in 5 minutes. The one she did a few months ago that was fantastic.

this is unsurprisingly great

and today a cover of 'after the gold rush'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bTWi89QkXc

#16 on NPR's list

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/02/934633044/the-50-best-albums-of-2020-page-4

Wow, I totally forgot this came out in 2020! Anything that came out before March feels like another era entirely. Great to see it getting some love though.

This is really really good. It's good in the ways that are what made me like Fearless-era Taylor... honest, direct, and personal - and this sounds patronising as fuck but i think i described that record once as 'born to run for teen girls' - and I mean that in a very complimentary way even if it sounds shitty. Specific groups of people need specificity they can relate to in songwriting, so although that record and this one aren't directly FOR me, they probably mean a huge amount to the right people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Kb5YWEH4k

https://katiepruitt.com/tour
NYC advance tickets no longer available...

my fucking arm isn't gonna be healed by the time this show happens on Friday and I have a single ticket to the sold out 6:30 show at Mercury Lounge in NYC. Anybody want it? ILXmail me.

Woohoo!

https://www.katiepruitt.com/

New music and a tour

https://open.spotify.com/album/4PxGWmuTtzAxkPCzmWQ5Al?si=3aBEmkQeSwiwD9lFuTfqfQ

Katie Pruitt is living proof of music’s power to transform the way we experience the world. With her sophomore album Mantras, mainly produced by Collin Pastore and Jake Finch (boygenius, Lucy Dacus), Pruitt looks inward to explore such matters as gender identity, self-compassion or the lack thereof, and the struggle for peace in times of chaos and uncertainty—ultimately arriving at a body of work that speaks to the strength in undoing harmful self-beliefs and fully living your truth.

Side A

1. All My Friends

2. White Lies, White Jesus And You

3. Self Sabotage

4. Leading Actress

5. Jealous Of The Boys

Side B

6. Blood Related

7. Naive Again

8. The Waitress

9. Worst Case Scenario

10. Phases Of The Moon

11. Standstill

yes!!!!!

OMG. I needed this news.

The two released songs feel like they pick up immediately where Expectations left off - “White Lies, White Jesus and You” is basically “Expectations” musically and “Georgia” lyrically - and I am not complaining.

Agreed. Picked up tix for her tour this AM. Venue here is of decent size; not huge but a bit bigger than I would have expected for her. Hope she sells loads of tix.

New album is out

i had not seen there was a new album. v good news. loved expectations.

Oh man did I miss her

Sorry to gush but this is sooooo good

It's really great. I saw her live this past Monday and the focus was heavily on the new album and everything sounded fantastic. I was a little nervous about the Mantras title paired with the band wearing "subscribe to the vibe" jean jackets... but all was good

10/10, every song made me cry

"jealous of the boys".................

The electric rhythm guitar parts remind me of Lydia Loveless records, except the songwriting's sharper.

Perhaps chiming in with the above, I love how the album's sound edges closer to the soft rock sound of "Expectations" (the song) but in a manner that feels very natural and not-at-all hamfisted.

"Jealous of the Boys" hits like an anvil. Interesting too in how it can be construed as about sexuality and/or about gender - "both" is the obvious answer, but that ambiguity feels notable (and the fact that Pruitt pulls it off so effortlessly is even more notable) at his particular moment.

*this particular moment

The electric rhythm guitar parts remind me of Lydia Loveless records, except the songwriting's sharper.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, April 10, 2024 6:43 PM (five days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I've listened about a half dozen times now and am a big fan of side A, especially 'White Lies' and 'Jealous of the Boys' -- the latter is her best song to date. She's matured in age and worldview but is more introspective and has sharpened her storytelling (and is willing to say things she may not have been ready to say on her debut?).

On the downside, the tempos on Side B begin to drag a bit, and I could use some more of the highs of Expectations. She has such an incredible voice -- I'm often reminded of Ashley McBryde -- but there's maybe too much restraint for my tastes. Also going to say something I might regret, but there are places ("Leading Actress") where the electric guitar sounds a lot like John Mayer.

The last two tracks are way too quiet, yeah.

just saw her doing a shop performance at the rough trade shop in notting hill which i didn’t even realise still existed. not really ideal conditions - clammy, kp off a 10hour flight from SF, the record shop absorbing all the sound from her, so she was competing with the ambient outside noise. and although i loved Expectations i gave the most recent one a quick spin yesterday and thought it was… fine. not much more on one listen.

still, watching her just now she’s got something that works. she comes across as… sorry this is an absurd and weird phrase to use … as *stout-hearted*. resilient, and that resilience means she can take the shards of her experience and turn them into songs. she’s got a good voice that the shop did no favours on most of the songs, but which clearly communicates her feeling.

i’ll give the album another spin.

*in store* not shop performance, grandad.