When Katie Crutchfield, who performs under the name Waxahatchee, plays live shows, fans shouldn’t expect a performance that encompasses all six of her studio albums.

Instead, she’s focusing on her three most recent releases — the 2021 release “Saint Cloud,” the current Waxahatchee album “Tigers Blood” and finally “Plains,” a 2022 album she made with Jess Williamson.

“I realize it’s a little bit of a risky move,” Crutchfield said in a recent phone interview. “There are definitely gonna be people who have been with me for a long time and want to hear the old stuff.

“But I just feel so excited to play all the newer stuff, and so, yeah, that’s basically the whole set. So if you are a fan of those last three records, you’re gonna probably hear what you wanna hear.”

Crutchfield will perform Sunday at the Outside Festival at Civic Center Park in Denver. The two-day event kicks off Saturday and includes films, motivational speakers, outdoor sports and plenty of music. The weekend lineup includes Khruangbin, Lord Huron, Sylvan Esso, Trampled By Turtles and many others.

For Crutchfield, the focus on the newest music makes sense, considering “Saint Cloud” and “Tigers Blood” have helped to reshape her sound, taking it in a more straightforward direction that leans further into her country and folk influences, while retaining some of the rock energy that characterized her earlier work as Waxahatchee.

“I’ve always written songs that are very simple and the melodies are just really simple and the foundation of my songwriting is country music. It is even like ’90s pop country music,” Crutchfield said. “That’s the first music I connected with, and it’s sort of imprinted on my DNA. But those first four albums, I feel like, I was so concerned with like sort of scuffing that up a bit and making it weirder or more sort of in line with indie rock or punk rock, with my tastes at the time, which is great. I’m so glad that that all exists as like a snapshot of that moment. I feel like with ‘Saint Cloud,’ it was a big realignment with my tastes and the actual type of songs that I was writing were aligned maybe for the first time.”

It’s not just the music that has aligned in a good way for Crutchfield during the past five-plus years. Before making “Saint Cloud,” she decided to quit drinking.

“I really feel like everything in my life got better when I quit,” she said. “If I just keep not drinking, good things are coming my way and happiness is coming my way and creative, like reaching these new creative milestones, that’s coming my way.”