TEKLA
WATERFIELD
MUSIC
Mother Mind (album) September 5, 2025
Something My Own (single) July 11, 2025
I See You Mama (single) May 9, 2025
New Skies September 24, 2021
Trouble In Time January 8, 2021
The Curtain Falls 2018
This Nightlife is Wearing On Me 2015
VIDEOS
KEEP IT UPBEAT
Tiny Desk Submission 2025
SONG FOR EDEN
Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder 2022
LOVE COMES ALONG (featuring Luke Abbott) - Directed by Ryan Jorgensen
Tekla Waterfield 2021
TROUBLE IN TIME
Directed by Jeff Fielder
Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder 2021
YESTERDAY WAS A BAD DAY
Viral Video Session 2020 Presented by Ballard Vox
SON OF A PREACHER MAN
Artist Home Presents NYE 2019
SLOWBOAT
Tiny Desk Submission 2024
COME ON JANE
Live on Band In Seattle 2022
WRONG TIME STATE OF MIND Directed by Ryan Jorgensen
Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder 2021
BETTER DAYS
Directed by Ryan Jorgensen
Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder 2021
NICE TRY
Directed by Ryan Jorgensen
*selected by the Seattle International Film Festival to be premiered at the 2019 Bumbershoot Music Festival
DREAM CHASER
2015 - This Nightlife Is Wearing On Me
PRESS
Photo courtesy Steve Rocketkar rocketkar.com
Mother Mind
(2025)
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'Mother Mind' showcases Tekla Waterfield’s canny ability to transform daily life and capture it in lyrics and music that evoke the ache, despair, hope, and love of life lived. Henry Carrigan, Folk Alley​
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This ("Mother Mind") is an album about making sense of it all, and having that conviction of hope: that it will, finally, make sense as one continues alternately to plod, stumble, glide, then dance along. Omar Willy, Seattle Star​, 2025
Jeff and Tekla are the full real deal. They have something to say, and they have the artistic chops to say it, in an interesting, compelling, elegant way. Nancy Guppy, Seattle Channel, 2025
‘Mother Mind’ is a gorgeous distillation on marriage and parenthood through an unflinchingly honest lens. Parenthood is maybe really not a groovy pop theme or a gritty Americana topic, yet this album does groove. Iaan Hughes, KBCS, 2025
Waterfield’s voice in particular is a powerful, expressive instrument. Americana UK, 2025
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This couple are very much a potent energy in the world of contemporary folk and roots music. An album that engages and inspires in many ways and on many fronts. Lonesome Highway, 2025
Seattle-based duo Tekla Waterfield & Jeff Fielder blend heartfelt songwriting with rich Americana-folk textures. Waterfield, a decorated independent singer-songwriter, and Fielder, an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and longtime touring guitarist (Mark Lanegan, Indigo Girls), create deeply personal and socially conscious music. Their upcoming album ‘Mother Mind’ continues their exploration of identity, longing, and resilience with lush, slow-burning arrangements. R-mas (Italy), 2025
Trouble In Time
(2021)
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“Poignant and emotionally soaring songs that not only capture the jagged despair growing out of social and cultural division but also revoke the resilience of the human spirit.” No Depression, 2021
"Trouble in Time is a record begging a quiet and in depth listen. Loaded with layered instrumentation buried deep, peeking out like a hidden treasure, only to reveal themselves in short but necessary, perfectly placed bursts." Alternate Root 2021
“Trouble In Time stands proudly in line with the many great Pacific Northwest Americana albums and artists like Brandi Carlile and Courtney Marie Andrews.” American Songwriter, 2021
"Trouble in Time , in my mind, is an American Prayer and includes the lyrics, “remember unity, remember grace, leads us to a better place” followed by an indictment of our previous administration’s failings in these qualities. It’s a 2020 version of Bridge over Troubled Water". Nine Volt Heart 2021
Multi-instrumentalist/producer Fielder’s spent years cutting his teeth across the globe as touring guitarist for acts like Indigo Girls and Mark Lanegan, while Waterfield’s established a legacy of pro-feminist activism that pairs perfectly with the songwriter’s take on the Americana genre.
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Waterfield & Fielder’s upcoming debut as a duo, Trouble In Time, finds the couple coalescing elements of soft rock, indie folk, and soul into a seamless sound. Jack Anderson, KUTX Austin Music Experience, 2020
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New Skies
(2021)
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Waterfield has established a solid reputation in and around Seattle, it's well time the rest of the world latched on too. Fatea Records, (UK) 2021
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Delicacy meets calm beauty on ‘New Skies’. One of my favorite parts was how easy ‘New Skies’ was to listen to. Indie Top 39, (UK) 2021
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“Sincerity meets virtuosity. Delicate meets torrential. Piercing meets a wide net. When husband and wife duo, Tekla Waterfield and Jeff Fielder, collaborate, their two styles blend like the night sky and the constellations. Fielder, who’s backed up greats like Mark Lanegan, brings his seemingly effortless and endless talent to working with Waterfield, who writes gentle, encompassing songs that stay with you like sprits after leaving the family plots." American Songwriter, 2020
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There’s a great percussion line on Tekla Waterfield’s ‘Can’t Have Me‘ – and we’re a sucker for great percussion. We’re also a sucker for smart song writing and a warm intimate vocal style – and Tekla Waterfield has all that, as she demonstrates on her new album ‘New Skies‘, which is her third solo release. ‘Can’t Have Me‘ looks at a relationship that’s on-again-off-again and that feels unequal in commitment “You give and you take, and you take and you take.” There are, though, two involved in crafting this situation: “it’s just a little game that we play – wouldn’t have it any other way” Tekla Waterfield sings knowingly. Americana UK, 2021
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The Curtain Falls
(2018)
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"Like all good late night torch singers, Tekla Waterfield’s songs will break the hearts that need a good breaking, or help heal the ones already cracked.
You may know her from her tenure in Seattle’s Bushwick Book Club, a group of working musicians who, instead of discussing books over dark beer, craft song responses to them and graciously perform them for us. Or perhaps you’ve heard her as one of the vocalists with Seattle Rock Orchestra. That’s only part of the story here.
Backed by superb production from Jeff Fielder, Tekla’s songs on her second solo album The Curtain Falls glisten like old Seattle neon refracting through the raindrops on your no longer affordable apartment window while you’re considering if you should move, break-up, resist, or pull the cork out of the half drained wine bottle. So, yeah, there’s an album for that. You should take a listen." Iaan Hughes, KBCS - 2018 Music of The Moment
"The singer songwriter found her own essence within her poignantly palpable harmonies which she’s infused with the roots of her Seattle sound. Her sounds tend to bounce between Folk, Jazz, Indie and Blues through her discography proving that she’s one of the most eclectically talented underground artists around today.
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With Original Lies, Tekla has created an anthemically catchy Pop hit, complete with an irresistibly catchy chorus that even Kim Gordon would give 5 stars." A&R Factory - 2018
"The songstress has a way with her lyrical delivery, though she defines herself as alt-country, she flirts with Joss Stone-like soul flourishes in between her tinges of country twang." Monterey County Weekly - 2017
"It shouldn’t surprise you that singer-songwriter Tekla Waterfield is part of a book club dedicated to creating art inspired by literature. Take a listen to this indie-Americana musician’s lyrics and it’s all about the story. Sure, those stories are mostly about love, but like great literature, everything she does is honest. Jazz lines breeze through this music as does bluegrass-tinged fiddles. But the sound is carried by Waterfield’s unaffected vocals." Volume Inlander Music Festival, Spokane, WA - 2016
