Billboard applauds Nora Jane Struthers' "musical odyssey" from Brooklyn English teacher to Nashville bandleader, from whimsical folk narratives to deeply personal, hard-charging songs on new album 'Wake' (out 2/24, Blue Pig Music). On the album, rich with robust electric riffs, pedal steel and violin, NPR Music's Ann Powers calls Struthers "guided by fire," Rolling Stone Country hails her "lyrical vulnerability matched by her growing confidence," and Amy Poehler's Smart Girls at the Party raves she is "entirely and unequivocally herself.”