Stephanie Smittle with Leo Traum and Ed Caner

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.”