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I’ve been criminally short on covering country and folk music this year, so let’s fix some of that with an independent artist who has seen a lot of buzz this past year and you may have even seen across TikTok. So meet Jesse Welles: he’s a country-folk singer-songwriter from Arkansas who actually had a pretty interesting run in the 2010s under various underground bands and under just his surname, where his 2018 album Red Trees & White Trashes got a few production credits ... read more

His best album yet. I love to see that the quality on Jesse's albums keeps going up and up with each release. I find it a bit weird that Fear Is The Mind Killer is on both this and the previous album, but I won't complain because it's a great tune. I especially loved War Is A God, super powerfully written. Really looking forward to seeing both what he does next and seeing him live later this year with @Jiller (Thanks again for bringing me with)

not his strongest writing but it is still jesse welles writing

Even though I loved his last two albums, when this dropped I just never got around to listening to it, so this was my first run through. Right off the bat I was surprised to hear a band backing him, since he flew solo on Hells Wells and Patchwork. This definitely had more of a country vibe to it, which took some getting used to on my part. I found myself missing it just being him and his guitar, but I can appreciate the production value. I liked this, but not as much as I would have hoped. ... read more