Jesse Welles Video Page

Jesse Welles Video Page

Jesse Welles Is What Bob Dylan Used To Be

Jesse Welles is a prolific, excellent young balladeer who has already earned a place alongside Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, U. Utah Phillips, and my friend David Rovics as another important voice in the folk tradition.

I saw my first Jesse Welles video, War Isn't Murder on the Jimmy Dore Show a few months ago and was completely blown away.

Jesse's latest output of "solo in a field" YouTube videos of his songs, that were pretty clearly triggered by Israel's Holocaust in Gaza, has been nothing short of amazing. If there was any Justice in the world, and from the content of most of Jesse's songs that's unlikely, he would be a major commercial success as well as a viral YouTube sensation.

I have been gigging as a professional musician since 1961 and recording in studios since 1969. I'm currently in 2 bands here in Kona on Hawai'i Island (The Uncles and Mauka Soul) and play numerous 2 to 5 hour gigs per month.

Since early 2023, I have been co-producing recordings of David Rovics' songs. Since our live Killing The Messenger session here on Cassandra Farm in Jan of 2023, David has sent me instrument and vocal stereo mixes of songs he's written.  I add the rest of the instrumentation.  Then I remix and master the recordings. We've completed 7 albums of music so far, 108 songs and counting along with companion videos I've produced for many of those songs.

When I don't have a Rovics song to work on, I've been doing the same sort of remixes of Jesse Welles' songs as a modest tribute to his song-stories that I genuinely treasure.

I stripe Jesse's original YouTube videos with my remixes and post 'em at my YouTube site and they can be played here.