Stephanie Smittle’s history of engagements includes howling in front of roaring amplifiers as a member of southern sludge rock group Iron Tongue, singing ancient chant as a cantor in a 200-year-old Episcopal church and slinking around stage in an avant-garde Kurt Weill opera. 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.” The Cave Springs, Arkansas, native has performed as a soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Opera in the Ozarks, and has recorded two albums of genre-hopping original material with The Smittle Band.
