Label: Coffee Street Records
Release: August 7, 2017
Website: 61South.com
Palestine
Blues,
the new album from Lew Jetton & 61 South is a personally poignant
and sometimes brutal memoir of a 10 year period in Jetton's life
which included struggles with alcohol, drugs, depression,
joblessness, frustration and a spiritual tug of war.
“Palestine
is the community in which I live but it's also a place of historic
significance for being sacred, while at the same time, a place of
conflict. That's kind of where I have been for years. I know a lot
of blues is happy and uplifting. This is not. I'm OK with that. I
wanted it to be real blues, in the emotional sense and that's what
Palestine
Blues
is.” Lew Jetton
Palestine
Blues
is pure emotion. Recorded 3 piece for the most part with just Lew on
guitar, with bass and drums, so the essence of the songs could show
through. No posing. Just the raw feeling, so you really can feel the
frustration, the helplessness, the anger, the sadness, that are a way
of life for so many today.
Track
Listing:
- Will I Go To Hell (4:11)
- Oh My My (3:04)
- For the Pain (4:27)
- Mexico (5:09)
- Sold Us Out (3:45)
- Drinking Again (4:03)
- Don't Need No Devil (4:10)
- Christ Have Mercy (3:53)
- Drama (2:49)
- BoutTime (2:32)
All
songs written by Robert Lewis Jetton (BMI, Brooks Chapel Music)
Copyright 2017, All Rights Reserved
PERSONNEL:
LEW
JETTON Vocals, Guitar
ERIK
EICHOLTZ Drums
OTIS
WALKER Bass
J.D.
WILKES Harmonica (1,5)
*Produced
by Lew Jetton, Engineered, mixed and mastered by Heath Glisson
*Recorded,
mixed and mastered at Coffee Street Recording Studios, Paducah, KY
“Very original. Very dark. Think Gary Clark Jr meets Townes Van Zandt. Maybe the most REAL blues I've heard in a long time, because it deals with real life and real problems so many of us are facing today. Not a bunch of superficial BS. It's about real pain. The problems the working families and working poor are dealing with. This one tells it straight “in your face.” Luke Williams, WKYQ
“I've played him on my shows in the past, but this CD takes it up another explosive notch!! “ Cap'n Barney, MAYFLOWER HILL BLUES, WMHB
| “A
powerful collection combining creative original lyrics and
instrumentation with traditional and contemporary blues
themes.....gets better every time I play it!” Brion
Foster, KYRS Palestine Blues follows on the heels of Lew Jetton & 61 South's 2016 release Rain, which spent more than 6 months of the Roots Music Report's Contemporary Blues Chart, receiving extensive airplay worldwide and finishing #36 in their year end list of all the Top 200 releases. 
PUBLICIST:
FRANK
ROSZAK KBA Awardee 2014
frankroszakpromotions.com
818.679.7636
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