Steph Stewart and The Boyfriends – Musician Bio
Photo taken from Steph Stewart and the Boyfriend's Facebook page.
Sometimes, my immensely talented friends let me write their professional bios for them. While it’s not about food or farming, that’s exactly how I met Steph, of Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends. She was one of the Crop Mobbers a couple years back who I met while doing a story on the group. A few years later, we’re eating homemade chicken pot pie in her lovely dining room with her fiancee, Steven Horton. (They also met at that same Mob!) Steph’s got a beautiful talent for music, among many other things. Check out Steph Stewart and the Boyfriends on Reverb Nation and listen in. I’m partial to Coal – so moving. She also once did a live, banjo-picked rendition of The Knife’s Heartbeats that blew me away. Bio below.
Artist Bio
Rooted in memories dancing to Johnny Cash with her grandfather as a kid in North Carolina, Steph writes about place and the transient idea that is home. Personalities reflect her inspiration: the plight of a coal miner, the defiance of a cross-dressing, Victorian cowgirl, the scorned lover. Together, Steph and her boyfriends deliver a haunting sound both unique and strangely familiar, fusing old Appalachia and top-shelf Americana.
Her ethereal twang feeds an audience, easing into the gut like honey, accented by hoppy banjo picking. Other songs—the more tragic, emotional ones—unleash a piercing moan that hits harder, like a cast iron pan dropped on the kitchen floor, throttling with a resounding pulse long after the music is over.
