Jay Lee Webb

Jay Lee (born Willie Lee Webb; February 12, 1937 – July 31, 1996) was an American country music singer. He is most-known for his answer song "I Come Home A Drinkin'" to his older sister Loretta Lynn's #1 hit Don't Come Home A Drinkin' in 1969.

Willie Lee Webb was born in a log cabin on February 12, 1937 in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. His parents were homemaker Clara Marie "Clary" (née Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and coal miner and farmer Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (October 24, 1906 – February 23, 1959).

The family was poor; living hand-to-mouth and relying on his father's pittance income. The Webbs had seven other children in addition to Jay Lee:

His mother called him "Jay Lee" from an early age, which he would later use in his career. He had his father's guitar, and learned to play it when he was age 15 and left school. He often played and sang along with his father, Ted, who would die of black lung disease in 1959, the result of working for years in the coal mines of Van Lear, Kentucky.

At age 19 in 1958, Webb left Kentucky and moved to Custer, Washington. He lived with his sister Loretta and her family. He sang in local honky-tonks with his guitar, and played a local performing circuit on Sunday nights for $10. Webb also wrote his own songs like his sister, and he co-wrote some of her later hits.

Webb was a keen guitar player and decided to write some short gospel songs with sister Loretta. Having a tenor voice, Webb discovered gospel songs were well suited to him. In February 1959, sister Loretta formed her own band. Lynn called her band The Trailblazers, and Webb played guitar. They performed all over Washington, and Lynn was beginning to build a small fan following.

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