The son of US Senator Trent Lott is using his musical talents to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina. Chet Lott was in Jackson Wednesday, releasing his new blues CD Erased It.
He shares the last name of his senator father, but Chet Lott has made a name for himself as a musician.
"Welcome To Mississippi" and "Where I Am From" are among several original tracks that celebrate Lott s home state...
a place he s giving back to with sales from his new cd. All proceeds are going to the Southeast chapter of the American Red Cross for Katrina relief.
"I was in Kentucky, and I really felt helpless," he said.
"Everyone was down here cleaning up the lots, and this was a small way I can lend a helping hand to the Coast."
It all started with the title track "Erased It". Chet wrote the song one day after seeing what Katrina left of his family home in Pascagoula.
"The thing that really affected me the most was everyone had lost their house, every neighbor in the neighborhood I grew up in all around Beach Blvd in Pascagoula. Every house was gone."
That emotion inspired the project that took 11 months to complete.
The business man by day spent evenings in a Kentucky recording studio. The result, his mother Patricia Lott says, is great music that s already getting airplay in Europe.
"Some disc jockey in Poland.
.. all we could understand was Lott.
...
Red Cross. We could only pick up a few words, but it was really interesting," she says.
Now Chet s trying to gain that kind of interest in his home state, where the first leg of the Erased It tour is underway.
He hopes to sell 10 thousand copies of the cd.
Lott performed at the Top 40 Under 40 luncheon at the Trade Mart in Jackson Wednesday, planning another performance Wednesday evening at George Street Grocery.
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