Come for the songs, stay for the songs

May 19, 2024 11:32 AM

Jesse Welles is a singer/songwriter in the protest tradition: War Isn’t Murder; Cancer; Fentanyl; The Olympics; Whistle Boeing; Payola; Happy Mother’s Day; Fat; God, Abraham, and Xanax.
posted by scruss (5 comments total)

The Boeing song is legit great!!
posted by sixswitch at 8:44 PM on May 19 [1 favorite]

Someone has been posting some songs from his instagram on youtube, including the wonderful Depression. Personally I really love his stuff, though he appears to have fronted his own band for a while (and opened for Greta van Fleet?) I really didn't care for that material as much for as little I've heard. I like this older wiser version of him where he's writing these numbers that are a bit more Shel Silverstein than they are Bob Dylan.
posted by Catblack at 10:10 AM on May 20

Yes, he has several extremely rock-guitar albums as part of the band Welles.
posted by scruss at 10:32 AM on May 20

very john prine to me and i like it very much.
the tempo changes in some of the songs are delightful.

"cancer is as lucrative a business as war, if ya ain't expecting peace, how can you expect a cure?"
posted by danjo at 7:10 PM on May 20 [2 favorites]

I almost never log in and comment but I felt obliged to say that War Isn't Murder is a great one.

I found it a few weeks ago and have listened to it at least a dozen times.
posted by skinnydipp at 7:44 AM on May 23