Lew Jetton Biography
Lew Jetton is an American blues guitarist and singer who also worked as a meteorologist and local television personality for many years. From 1982 to 1983, he worked in radio at WIRJ (AM)/WZDQ-FM in Humboldt, Tennessee. While still working in local television, he began playing guitar with the blues band 61 South in Paducah, Kentucky, in 1994.
Lew Jetton Age
Lew was born in 1959 in Humboldt, Tennessee, in the United States of America. He is 64 years old as of 2023.
Lew Jetton Education
In 1981, he graduated from Middle Tennessee State University.
Lew Jetton Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Lew Jetton Career
From 1982 to 1983, he worked in radio at WIRJ (AM)/WZDQ-FM in Humboldt, Tennessee, before transitioning to television as a weathercaster/news reporter at WBBJ-TV in Jackson, Tennessee. He also worked briefly as a sports anchor at WBBJ before joining WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky as a weekend news anchor/meteorologist in 1989. Jetton is the second cousin of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Nashville Tennessean journalist Nat Caldwell. Jetton left local television in 2007 to pursue music full-time. While still working in local TV, he began playing guitar with the blues band 61 South, based in Paducah, Kentucky, which included Col. J.D. Wilkes of The Legendary Shack Shakers and The Dirt Daubers, among others.
Lew Jetton & 61 South shared billings with blues musicians such as Luther Allison, Mike Zito, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Chuck Berry, and Lil’ Ed and The Blues Imperials while working and touring as a regional band in the Midwest and Mid-South. State Line Blues (2000), Tales From A 2 Lane (2006), Rain (2016), and Palestine Blues (2017) are the four albums released by Lew Jetton & 61 South. Real Blues Magazine named State Line Blues the fourth best Independent Blues Release in the United States.Tales From A 2 Lane was named the Kentucky Blues Society’s Blues Album of the Year, as well as a “Pick to Click” by XM Satellite Radio Bluesville (Channel 74), which kept Jetton originals “Waffle House Woman” on the air.
The band re-released State Line Blues in 2007, which was also chosen as a “Pick to Click” on XM’s Bluesville, with “Gettin’ Colder,” “State Line Blues,” and “Homegrown Tomato” receiving the most airplay. Jetton signed with Coffee Street Records, a small Kentucky label, in 2016 and began work on his third album. Rain, Jetton’s first new music in ten years, was the result. Rain debuted at number 15 on the Roots Music Report’s Contemporary Blues Album chart only two weeks after its release. Jetton and 61 South continue to play festivals and clubs while touring extensively in the Midwest, Mid-South, and other regions.
Lew Jetton Songs
- State Line Blues (2000)
- Tales From A 2 Lane (2006)
- Rain (2016)
- Palestine Blues (2017)
Lew Jetton Net Worth
Jetton has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.