Katie Pruitt
Alysse Gafkjen/Courtesy of the artist
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Alysse Gafkjen/Courtesy of the artist
Set Checklist
- “Main Actress”
- “White Lies, White Jesus and You”
- “Self Sabotage”
The street to a follow-up album for singer-songwriter Katie Pruitt was an extended one.
We first met the Georgia-born singer-songwriter in 2020, when she stopped by World Cafe to play songs from her debut album, Expectations. It explored Katie’s life as a queer Americana artist rising up within the South, working to be totally embraced by her Catholic household.
Quite a bit has modified in these final 4 years. After a lot time spent in search of understanding from the world round her, Pruitt turned inward. She’s simply launched her sophomore album, known as Mantras. She calls it a “full-circle journey from self-sabotage to self-compassion.”
On this session, Pruitt talks concerning the strategy of turning self-doubt into empathy for herself; and the way her relationship along with her mother and father modified within the aftermath of her debut.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.
