Young Tennessee Brothers Record “COVID-19 Blues”

Nashville, Tennessee – Find the positive in the situation. That was the assignment from teacher Jessica Beddingfield for her two young sons sequestered at home during the pandemic. Eric Lee, Jr. (12) and Wyn (10) took the task to heart and wrote “COVID-19 Blues,” a song contrasting the thrill of thinking summer vacation started early with the reality that home school is really hard. The brothers enlisted the help of their singer/songwriter father, Eric Lee Beddingfield, to write the music and record a video, and that cute clip has gone viral with over 2.5 million views. Check out the video HERE.

“We recorded the song for Jessica as part of their homework, posted it to my Facebook page and went to bed,” said Eric Lee, who spent most of boys’ lives making a living by touring the world as a Country artist. “We got up the next morning, and everything was blowing up!”

Jessica is a teacher at H.B. Williams Elementary in White House, Tennessee and has been home schooling Eric Lee Jr. and Wyn since schools were closed amid the pandemic in March. Since the shelter-at-home began during spring break, every day following would be a vacation. Not so. Jessica immediately continued their education at home, making sure all assignments were completed each day.

As the song reached one million views and a profile of the family was featured on Nashville’s WZTV Fox17 news, Eric Lee Jr. was rushed to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt for an emergency appendectomy. Eric Lee Jr. had to endure extreme pain as he waited for the results of his own COVID-19 test (which he called the worst part) in order to have surgery. After a successful surgery and back home, the video had eclipsed more than two million views.

At the request of several radio stations interested in playing the song, the boys and their father went in to a Nashville studio and recorded a professional version. The recording will be available digitally with proceeds from the “COVID-19 Blues” song downloads and a portion of the merchandise being donated to Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. T-Shirts are available HERE.