Christa Wells – Somewhere In Between

CCM: How did you first get into songwriting?
CW: I started songwriting in high school for fun, and then as a young adult I wasn’t quite sure what to do. I’d always imagined I wanted to do music, but as I became college age, I realized I don’t really like performing that much! When somebody said to me I might be more suited for songwriting, I decided to see what I needed to do to pursue that.

I didn’t live in Nashville, and I didn’t have a music community in North Carolina. So I started re-connecting with friends like Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (Plumb) and her husband Jeremy Lee. She and I started writing together, and Jeremy started handling my publishing, so they opened up the doors for my songs to be pitched to artists.

The first couple songs that got picked up, “Day By Day” by Point Of Grace and “Held” by Natalie Grant… I didn’t know what to do with them. Jeremy heard these songs, and I think that’s why he wanted to publish for me. That was awesome, because I’m not a particularly ambitious person. At that time I was just writing for the love of it.

CCM: So let’s talk about your music, because you have a new EP coming out! What can you tell us about Velveteen?
CW: I’m proud of it, it’s definitely my most personal record. My strength is in writing songs about loss and hope, but I write those songs for other people, from their stories. I did most of this writing through a super dark part of my life.

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