Jet Jurgensmeyer Was the Youngest on the Farm, and the Truck Bed Ended Up in “Nothing On You”
Jet Jurgensmeyer was the youngest on the farm. When the cab of the truck ran out of seats, the answer was sit on the bed. He wrote the 07 Chevy bed into “Nothing On You” because he lived it.
He is a Belmont student who runs a fraternity chapter of 32 guys. He also has a new single, “Sane to My Crazy.” I ask how one person holds all of it together.
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The single comes from a friend’s real marriage. David brought the idea to Jet and a co-writer. So playing it at the Bluebird in Nashville with both co-writers and the woman behind the idea in the room got a little stressful. Jet says so himself. “I’m just excited that everyone can hear it.”
He first heard a song of his on the radio from a rental minivan parked outside a venue in Virginia Beach. His parents were in the van. A radio guy turned the volume up and Jet had no idea it was coming. It was the first song of his to pass a million streams. Hearing your music play in a city far from home is terrifying, he says. “I wrote the song. I sang the song. I produced the song.”
The Rockin’ 8 goes everywhere. His parents bought him a Taylor GS Mini together. A fraternity president at Kentucky wants him at the chapter house before an SEC game, and Jet is in. A roommate he met at basketball camp at age six hears his unreleased demos. Then I ask what 13-year-old Jet would think of today. He would want to know what is going on.
The back half gets honest. I ask what almost did not survive the semester. His first answer is his sanity. Then he gets specific about keeping the days sorted. Life is full of dials, not switches.
He sat on the Screen Actors Guild board in Nashville from 18 to 20, the youngest board member in the country. Then came bar rooms with four people in them, two of them his parents. The entertainment business is like golf, he says. You play 17 terrible holes, then one birdie pulls you right back in.
The morning after a single drops, his parents send the supportive text first. Then they ask what is next.
His dream is to keep telling relatable stories and one day play the Opry stage.
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