Katie Crutchfield and Kevin Morby – Leave the World Behind

Shacked up in the suburbs of Kansas City, indie singer-songwriters Katie Crutchfield and Kevin Morby are making some of their best work.

- By Justin Curto

Kevin Morby is leaning back on his living-room couch in a hoodie, shorts, and a Kansas City Royals face mask. His partner, Katie Crutchfield, sits perched on his right, pulling down her plaid mask every so often for a sip of coffee. The two popular indie artists have spent the past three years settling into a domestic life that musicians aren’t often afforded. They started dating after touring together in the spring of 2017; when their time off lined up, they would crisscross the country to meet here, at Morby’s home in Kansas, just outside Kansas City.

Their street is a row of homogeneous one-story ranch homes with SUVs in the driveways and piles of leaves gathering out front. Inside, it becomes clear this is a musician’s home. The rooms are painted different pastel shades and decorated with relics from their careers—props from past Morby videos and wall art for Crutchfield’s project, Waxahatchee. The living room has a piano and a keyboard; the front room is a cozy listening area housing dozens of records. And the house itself is embedded in their latest albums, Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud and Morby’s