“I can hear the Kaitlyn Baker train coming. Nashville better get ready.”

— Jarrett Jackson, KCJC, Russellville, AR

“Though she is headed to the bright lights [of Nashville], Baker’s music is all about home and the coal-packed mountains where she was raised.”

— Joe Tennis, Virginia Living

“Feisty ultimatum songs, sung with a voice that's a dead ringer for Carrie Underwood's.”

— Hazel Cills, Buzzfeed