I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away is the fifth studio album by American fingerstyle guitarist and avant-garde musician Hayden Pedigo. It was released on June 6, 2025, through Mexican Summer, in vinyl, CD and digital formats.
The album, consisting of eight tracks with a total runtime of approximately thirty minutes, succeeds Pedigo's 2023 project, The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored. It was produced, mixed, and recorded by Scott Hirsch, and mastered by Stephan Mathieu. The first single of the album was released on April 8, 2025, titled "Long Pond Lily". Pedigo refers to the album as the final installment in his "The Motor Trilogy", consisting of the album and its two predecessors. The title track was released as the second and final single on May 7, 2025.
The album is named after an episode of American television series Little House on the Prairie of the same name.
AllMusic's Timothy Monger referred to the album as "another quiet gem from an artist in the full bloom of his talents". Nathan Skinner of Beats Per Minute gave the album a score of 75%, stating "Along these lines, there are characteristics of a hauntological record sprinkled throughout I'll Be Waving â sounds pining for a mythical landscape that will never return (and arguably never even existed)." Uncuts Stephen Deusner rated the album eight out of ten and remarked, "These compositions are crammed with imaginative flourishes, like the electric guitar that adds a poignant psychedelia to 'Long Pond Lily'."
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.