Stephanie Sammons is a two-time Kerrville New Folk Finalist (2024, 2025) and a 2025 Telluride Troubadour Finalist. Her 2024 debut album, Time and Evolution, produced by acclaimed folk artist/producer Mary Bragg, is a tender and introspective exploration of faith, longing, and identity. Praised for its emotional nuance and lyrical clarity, the album marks a compelling entrance into the Americana and folk songwriting landscape.

Sammons has been described as a singer of subtle emotion with a voice that communicates ache without raising its volume. Her delivery is restrained, but never distant—each lyric a quiet revelation. “I feel deeply,” she says, “but I channel it into songs that speak without shouting.” This thoughtful, introspective style reflects her nature as an empath and an introvert—someone who chooses clarity over clamor, and substance over spectacle.

Sammons has studied with some of the most revered songwriters in the Americana and folk world, including Mary Gauthier, Emily Saliers, Jonatha Brooke, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Gretchen Peters, Kim Richey, and Verlon Thompson. These mentors have shaped her storytelling voice and taught her how to embrace vulnerability, lyrical precision, and emotional truth.

Sammons’s full-length debut album, Time and Evolution, was released in May 2024 and produced by Mary Bragg. The ten-song collection begins with a journey and ends with a reckoning. The songs explore themes of hope, shame, vulnerability, and the complexities of growing up in a conservative, Southern Baptist culture. Moments of melancholy are balanced with embracing reality in deft, searingly poetic language woven with rich emotional insight.

Producer Mary Bragg, the late Ingrid Graudins, and noted songwriter/Guy Clark collaborator Verlon Thompson are featured on Time and Evolution.  In Sammons’ words,  “Authenticity is the goal for me. I don’t want to shrink because I’m worried about what others may think of me. I’m still self-conscious about this, but I’ve been able to find the courage to be myself and write the songs that need to be written.”