Etta Lea is the product of a southern Methodist choir-girl upbringing. Her formative years in Old Church, Virginia exposed her to 70s country radio via her momma, while her father and his brothers regularly played bluegrass during family gatherings. Lea began writing poetry at a young age, presenting one of her poems to the Virginia governor at the age of 9. She began setting her poems to music during her teenage years, but her songwriting really took off when she moved to North Carolina and ...