Herself, who spends more time on the social medias than Your Humble Narrator, tipped me to this fella this morning.
Jesse Welles makes good use of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, where followers compare the 32-year-old from Arkansas to Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan. He tours like a fiend, from Austin to Boston, Berlin to Brisbane, and recently popped up on Stephen Colbert’s show, which is where Herself caught his act.
NPR calls him “one of the most visible examples of a new generation of digital-savvy artists bringing folk traditions to a modern medium. … So far, his music has addressed the war in Gaza, the Epstein list and the Trump administration’s claims that Tylenol is linked to autism.”
Well, sir. That covers a lot of waterfront, doesn’t it? Rants you can rock to, and roll with. Give him a listen.
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“War isn’t murder ask Netanyahu. He’s got a song for that and a bomb for you.” I will check him out. Thanks for the tip!
Seems like he’s having a good time, eh? Been playing since he was 11, according to Wikipedia. And John Fogarty presented him with the Spirit of Americana/Free Speech Award at this year’s 2025 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony, at the Ryman Aud in Nashville. So he’s got that going for him, which is nice.
He’s in Phoenix this week, but it’s sold out like every appearance until next April. His tour schedule is crazy with a day off every now and then for travel. I, and I’m sure most of you who traveled for work, know that a traveling day is not a day off.
A busy fella. Meanwhile, speaking of the farking ICEholes and their Border Patrol buddies, here’s a fun story about how Big Brother is not only watching, he’s pulling you over, based on license-plate readers and travel patterns.
Here’s hoping Jesse keeps his tour bus squeaky clean, inside and out.
I saw that story on the AP website. Scary shit is what. They hide the cameras, license plate readers, in traffic cones, utility boxes, and
other highway fixtures where they can’t be seen by drivers. Add in masks, balaclavas, dark glasses, and civilian clothes, and you have someone’s secret army gathering huge amounts of data, which combined with other data bases and processed by musk AI, , results in a large scale and illegal citizen surveillance system.
Yep, that’s where I saw it. Papers in Phoenix, El Paso, Las Cruces, Albuquerque, and Fanta Se didn’t pick it up. San Antonio picked it up, but buried it under its News > Border tabs. Denver and San Diego did like San Antone. So it goes.
What has kept the whole ICE thing just under the boiling point is that as of YET, they haven’t really gone after white-butt dissadents. If only our offspring would get serious about protesting at high schools and colleges, and get roughed up a bit, why then by god the fur will fly. If a police chiefs daughter is at a protest and gets gassed, if a ministers kid gets thumped over the head, and if a CEO’s granddaughter gets arrested, only then will serious war befall the Rethuglican Nazis. Viet Nam anyone?
I’ve been to some good size No Kings affairs and there is TOO much gray hair.
Great to see Mr Welles getting real.
We had a pretty kinda-OK sized turnout of Youngs at our last No Kings thing. But yeah, still a lot of Oldes. We’re not even fun to beat on; just dry up and blow away like a mouse fart in a dust storm.
But them Youngs bleed and squeal right purty. And their parents vote.
Speaking of musicians