Morton was born in 1955,[citation needed] and moved to Shetland in 1987, three years after his wife, Susan, who was a General Practitioner (GP).

[1] Until April 2015, Morton presented a BBC Radio Scotland show, broadcast Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights, from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM, a Scottish take on rock and pop, from obscure blues to mainstream pop and soul, to current independent releases.

[3] Morton was a co-author, with his son James, of their 2016 book Shetland : Cooking on the Edge of the World.

Morton's book Holy Waters: Searching for the Sacred in a Glass, published in November 2022, was shortlisted for a Guild of Food Writers Award and won Drinks Book of the Year in the 2023 Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink writing awards.

In 2021, Morton was nominated as Scottish Labour's candidate in the local elections to Shetland Islands Council.