Jeff Carson, country music artist turned Tennessee police officer, dies at 58

Jeff Carson, a country music artist with several hits in the mid-‘90s whose career pivoted to local law enforcement, has died. He was 58. Carson grew up singing in church in Oklahoma before he took his country music ambitions to Branson, Missouri and eventually landed in Nashville.

It was there that in 1995 Carson got a recording contract and put out his first single, "Yeah Buddy." . The following single, "The Car," became a top-five hit, topping out at number two and won Carson his first Academy of Country Music award for Video of the Year.Jeff Carson attends 30th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards on May 10, 1995 at the Universal Ampitheater in Universal City, California.

He briefly returned to music in 2019 to recut and release a previously recorded song, "God Save The World." His coworkers at the police department shared that song in honor of Carson, saying he "changed everyone he met, all of us, for the better!"In October 2016, Carson was namedIn 2020 during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the department

saying he wears a "for the public" to encourage others to follow the county’s masking enforcement at the time.

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