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Stephanie Smittle’s history of engagements includes singing ancient chant as a cantor in a 200-year-old Episcopal church, slinking around stage in an avant-garde Kurt Weill opera, howling in front of roaring amplifiers as a member of southern sludge rock group Iron Tongue and premiering new art songs by living composers for the recital hall. Her self-titled debut solo album is a collection of ten songs for voice and electric autoharp, which the Arkansas Democrat Gazette called “stunning” and “incandescent … a skilled and observant lyricist unafraid to express vulnerability and wonder and rage.”