Since moving to Music City in his mid-twenties, ZG Smith racked up a formidable cache of musicalsuccesses including touring extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, being frontman,primary songwriter, and founding member of Americana duo SmoothHound Smith, and sharingstages with acts like The Chicks, Trombone Shorty, Collective Soul, and Devon Gilfillian. His poignantand ethereal debut EP,Nighttime Animal, was released in February of 2023 and has garnered airplayand attention from musical curators and press outlets alike, not the least of which includeMinneapolis’s The Current, NPR’s World Cafe, Nashville’s Lightning 100, PopMatters, The BluegrassSituation, NashvilleSCENE, UnderTheRadar, and more.