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Radio Scotland,11 mins

Mary Jean Lewis: Extended Interview

Shereen

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Shereen speaks with Mary Jean Lewis niece of Jerry Lee Lewis. She grew up as part of American rock royalty and has toured with her famous family for years, but it took a romantic encounter with a man from Lanarkshire to make this singer up sticks and move to Scotland. Five years ago Mary Jean Lewis,niece of legendary wild man Jerry Lee Lewis fell in love, married and set up home in Wishaw. She's even brought her own taste of the deep south to the Lanarkshire town with the opening of her American diner there. A regular on the music circuit, Mary Jean says that family, good food and music were very much part of growing up in Louisiana.

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