Lew Jetton
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Lew Jetton (born 1959 in Humboldt, Tennessee, United States) is an American blues guitarist and singer, who also spent many years as a meteorologist and local television personality. He was born in Humboldt and raised near Trenton, Tennessee.
Career
After graduation from college at Middle Tennessee State University in 1981, he worked in radio at WIRJ (AM)/WZDQ-FM in Humboldt, Tennessee from 1982 to 1983, moving to television as a weathercaster/news reporter at WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee. He also spent a short stint as a sports anchor at WBBJ, before moving to WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky in 1989 as weekend news anchor/meteorologist.[1] Jetton is a second cousin of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nat Caldwell of the Nashville Tennessean. Jetton left local television in 2007 to concentrate on music.
Music
In 1994, while still working in local TV, he began playing guitar with the blues band, 61 South, based in Paducah, Kentucky, which featured, among others,
Working and touring as a regional band in the
In 2007, the band re-released 2000's State Line Blues, which was also picked up as a "Pick to Click" on XM's Bluesville, with "Gettin' Colder," "State Line Blues" and "Homegrown Tomato" receiving the most airplay.[2]
In 2016, Jetton signed with Coffee Street Records, a small label based in Kentucky and began work on his third album. The result of which was Rain, the first new music from Jetton in 10 years. Rain debuted on Roots Music Report's Contemporary Blues Album chart at number 15 in the world only two weeks after its release.
Lew Jetton & 61 South continue playing festivals and clubs and touring extensively in the Midwest, Mid-South and occasionally venturing to other regions.
Discography
- State Line Blues (2000) Independent (Brooks Chapel Music)
- Tales From A 2 Lane (2006) Independent (Brooks Chapel Music)
- Rain (2016) Coffee Street Records (Brooks Chapel Music)
- Palestine Blues (2017) Coffee Street Records (Brooks Chapel Music)
References
- ^ Leonard Riggs Jr. "WPSD TV Newschannel 6 Early Risers Club". Leonardsview.com. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
- ^ "Lew Jetton & 61 South". ReverbNation.com. Retrieved 2016-02-29.