The Healing Session is the result of a cathartic “band practice” with The Yearning Souls Bear Erickson on guitar, and Nate Keezer on percussion). Join us on a 100% completely in-the-moment, full IMPROVISED stream-of-consciousness musical journey.

It's A Shame +Outro

Touting a minimalist lineup of delicate yet incisive piano playing, naked voice, and moody string arrangements, Stephanie Croff's newest release, Why Do We Sing, is a compelling chronicle of emotional descent, ascent, and the troubled waters between the two. Like the crisis-beset femmes of Tori Amos, Over the Rhine's Karen Bergquist, and Patty Griffith, Stephanie Croff courts chaos of the heart without careening into musical ire and gestures towards redemption without waxing saccharine. 

Why Do We Sing not only showcases Croff's lush vocals, but also the string mastery of Kevin fox, whose cello matches the emotional pulse of Croff's delivery beat for beat. 

Why Do We Sing is an exercise in simplicity: a purging of one woman's burdens, a shunning of musical overproduction in favor of musical restraint. Listen to this album when it's quiet, cold, lonely, or when you need something to outdo the clamor in your life. I guarantee melancholy will never sound so good.

Some Days

The Curse

This track is from the album Why Do We Sing and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stephaniecroff

Retribution

The Sparrow's Call

Stay With Me

Prairie Rose

Live performance March 24, 2015 at SOhO Santa Barbara of the Townes Van Zandt classic, "Pancho & Lefty". Recording courtesy of Songwriters At Play.

Pancho & Lefty

Stay

There are some new songs just begging to be let loose into the world, before the frogs are out of their throats, before the sleep is out of their eyes. This is one of those songs. I hope you enjoy, At Midnight.

At Midnight

Born of the prairie and raised by the pines, Stephanie Croff sings songs for the soul.

For well over half her life, Stephanie has written songs to better understand her place in the world around her. Always searching for meaning, always yearning for truth, her music embraces the delicate walk between the tightrope ends of relationships. Stephanie is always willing to look up while embracing the fear of looking down.

It is in this admission of vulnerability that listeners can find themselves in her music. Stephanie puts every ounce of her soul into each song’s story with the hope that others may find inspiration through her own trials. And for a young woman, she’s had her share of difficult times to live through. Childhood abuse, religious extremism, marriages, divorces, and tragic family deaths have shaped the foundations of her experiences in this world, but it’s the tenuous and iron-fisted way that Stephanie clings to the hope that there is “something more” to live for that fuels the spark in each musical piece.

Just released is her long-awaited EP “The Dream Is Gone”. Under the production of musician Jesse Siebenberg (Supertramp, Crosby Loggins, Lissie), Stephanie’s thoughtful and paced songwriting style flourishes. A hypnotic and expansive bed of lush tones are created with Jesse on guitars and electric pianos, Dave Palmer (Fiona Apple, Madeline Peyroux, Fleetwood Mac) on synthesizers and space sounds, Gabriel Noel (Father Jon Misty, The Hayden Triplets, A Fine Frenzy) on bass guitar and cello, and Scott Seiver (Aimee Mann, Sia, Poe) on drums. 

Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Brotheryn Studios in Ojai, California (2012 Grammy – Best Long Form Music Video “Big Easy Express” featuring Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe, Old Crow Medicine Show), The Dream Is gone beautifully illustrates Stephanie’s musical maturity since her 2008 release of Why Do We Sing.

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