RED BARN RADIO WELCOMES LaTresa & The Signal 11/11 at 8 pmLaTresa & The Signal have been playing together since 2004. The band is composed of 4 musicians with diverse musical backgrounds. LaTresa Smith (guitar, singer, songwriter) was born in Florence, AL and grew up all over the South singing with a family band "The Hester Brothers", her minister father and his minister brothers, performing traditional country and southern gospel music. She remembers listening to bluegrass music on Saturday nights in an old store front in Mississippi and dreaming of having a bluegrass band of her own one day. She moved out West as a young adult, then returned to the south for ten years in the bluegrass state of Kentucky, until settling in Nashville, TN in 2003. She has been writing songs since she was ten years old. In 2003, she released her first bluegrass CD "Free Spirit" with 12 original progressive bluegrass tunes. She formed the band shortly thereafter and has since released a second more traditional CD "Love, Babies