Durrett began recording in the mid-1990s while at high school and later at the
University of Georgia at Athens, initially with her uncle
Vic Chesnutt producing. She released three albums on Athens-based
Warm Records. Her first,
Husk, was a collection of recordings from her teenage years recorded with Chesnutt between 1993 and 1996.
Pitchfork writer Ryan Dombal described it "Think Partridge Family but uglier, death-obsessed, and with a sunburnt, junkyard car in place of the fruity schoolbus".
The Mezzanine followed in January 2006, also produced by Chesnutt. Her third album,
Outside Our Gates, was produced by
Eric Bachmann and released in September 2008. and Pitchfork scoring it at 7.2, with Stephen M. Deusner calling it "Durrett's liveliest and rangiest record to date, as purposeful as her previous efforts but somehow more surefooted and traipsing". Durrett has toured throughout the United States and Europe and has made several guest appearances on other artist's records. Throughout the 2010s, she joined
Crooked Fingers, the musical project of
Eric Bachmann, who would become her husband. She appeared on Crooked Fingers’ 2012 release “Breaks in the Armor.” Since the disbandment of Crooked Fingers in 2016, she has shifted away from her musical career, but contributed backing vocals to a few tracks on Bachmann’s solo records. Bachmann recorded her song “Carolina” on his 2016 eponymous solo release. ==Musical style==