{"id":2046,"date":"2011-03-03T07:16:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2011-03-03T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T12:16:29","slug":"ben-kitterman-06-on-jimmie-kimmel-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/03\/03\/ben-kitterman-06-on-jimmie-kimmel-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Kitterman &#039;06 On Jimmie Kimmel Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2048\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/03\/ben-kitterman1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2048\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/03\/ben-kitterman1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/03\/ben-kitterman1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/03\/ben-kitterman1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Lewis and Ben Kitterman &#039;06<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ben Kitterman took an interesting turn at Wabash when he was a student. \u00a0He ended up driving professional musicians around for a living. \u00a0Tom Petty was one of those musicians. \u00a0In fact, it was a Tom Petty dropoff and an Aaron Lewis pickup that led Ben on a different path. \u00a0Aaron, then a heavy metal guy, was making a career move to Country music. \u00a0That move ended up a career move for Ben as well.<\/p>\n<p>In true liberal arts fashion, Ben had more to bring to the music table&#8230;and he did. \u00a0You see, Ben is a really good \u00a0dobro player. \u00a0So good, in fact, that the other night is was country star Aaron Lewis and Ben sharing the Jimmie Kimmel stage.<\/p>\n<p>The new album by Aaron is #5 on iTunes. \u00a0Go check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here&#8217;s the video of Aaron and Ben doing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/watch\/220427\/jimmy-kimmel-live-aaron-lewis-country-boy\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Country Boy&#8221;<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Kitterman took an interesting turn at Wabash when he was a student. \u00a0He ended up driving professional musicians around for a living. \u00a0Tom Petty was one of those musicians. \u00a0In fact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}