[1] Her parents, Ben and Mary Ella Greenleaf (née Travis), were religiously devout and involved in gospel music.
[4] Her early musical influences included Sam Cooke, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Koko Taylor, and Aretha Franklin.
[2] She performed as a backing vocalist for Pinetop Perkins, on his segment of the Grammy Award winning album, Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas (2007).
[6] The same year Greenleaf and Blue Mercy issued their debut studio album, Cotton Field to Coffee House.
[9] Greenleaf also appeared as a guest singer on Japanese jump blues band Bloodest Saxophone's Texas Queens 5 released by Dialtone Records in 2019.