MJ Lenderman, Waxahatchee Cover ‘Choosin’ Texas’: Watch

Langley recently explained that the song, which was co-written with Miranda Lambert, started with Langley asking Lambert to confirm a fanciful story she’d heard about Lambert getting stopped by the police with animals in her car. “We were at this writers retreat, and I just asked,” Langley told Rolling Stone, “She had a dog in the back and a kangaroo in the passenger seat, and got pulled over. I said randomly, ‘I’m sure [the police officer] was like, She’s from Texas, I can tell.’”

Performed as a stripped down acoustic duet, it blended seamlessly into Crutchfield and Lenderman’s encore of alt-country covers (Lucinda Williams’ “Abandoned,” the Jayhawks’ “All the Right Reasons,” and Kathleen Edwards’ “Six O:Clock News”). 

During the main set, Lendermand and Crutchfield traded off on each other’s songs, with Waxahatchee mostly sticking to her 2020’s catalogue and Lenderman alternating between tunes from Manning Fireworks and Boat Songs. The pair also performed “Angel Wings,” a song from their 2025 collaborative project Snocaps.

After 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’s 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.