Thursday, April 27, 2017

Meet The Artists: Lew Jetton & 61 South

Lew Jetton appears Friday evening, August 25th at the Kenlake Hot August Blues Festival. 

Lew Jetton learned The Blues while working in the cotton fields of his native West Tennessee as a teenager and young man. Musically, he had 2 of the best mentors you could think of. While working in Jackson, Tennessee, he became acquainted with the legendary Carl Perkins. Later, after moving to Western Kentucky, he was befriended by blues legend Snooky Pryor, who hailed from just across the Ohio River in Southern Illinois. Lew joined the blues band 61 South in 1994 as a guitar player, then took over as the frontman a year later, when the original singer, Fast Layne Hendrickson, moved to New Orleans.



Since then, they've become multiple “Picks to Click” on Sirius/XM Bluesville Channel, and favorites on the Midwest club and festival circuit and Lew has continued to write and produce critically acclaimed blues music.



Rain, the new CD from Lew Jetton & 61 South, continues to further Jetton's reputation as a clever songwriter, and dynamic, original vocalist, finishing in the top 40 of Roots Music Report's Contemporary Blues Releases for 2016 after more than 6 months on the Roots Music Report Charts. Their new CD, Palestine is due this summer.


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