{"id":860,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-03-24T13:20:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T19:20:49","slug":"willie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/860","title":{"rendered":"Nora Jane Struthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Willie<\/h6>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-860-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/04\/19123309\/01-Willie.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/04\/19123309\/01-Willie.mp3\">https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/04\/19123309\/01-Willie.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h6><a title=\"Spring 2010 Contributors\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/693\">Nora Jane Struthers<\/a><\/h6>\n<p> grew up in New Jersey playing and singing bluegrass music with her father, Alan.\u00a0 Now based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Struthers is performing her originals with her own band, an acoustic quartet comprised of fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and bass.\u00a0 Her debut album is set for a June 22 release.\u00a0<em>&#8211; Zachary Greenberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg: Did teaching literature in Brooklyn influence your songwriting? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Struthers: Teaching classic literature\u00a0such as <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> and <em>Hamlet<\/em> brought me back to the universal themes pervasive in all great stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg: What was the impetus behind writing \u201cWillie\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Struthers: I wanted to expand on the traditional murder ballad genre\u2014from folk classics like \u201cBanks of the Ohio\u201d, \u201cPretty Polly\u201d, and \u201cThe Knoxville Girl<em>\u201d\u2014<\/em>by changing not the narrative, but the narrator.<\/p>\n<p><em>To read more about Struthers visit <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.norajanestruthers.com\" target=\"_blank\"><em>www.norajanestruthers.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nora Jane Struthers grew up in New Jersey playing and singing bluegrass music with her father, Alan.\u00a0 Now based out of Nashville, Tennessee, Struthers is performing her originals with her own band, an acoustic quartet comprised of fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and bass.\u00a0 Her debut album is set for a June 22 release.\u00a0&#8211; Zachary Greenberg [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Jypy-willie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11514,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/11514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}