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    "comment": "Jesse Wells (born November 22, 1994), known professionally as Jesse Welles, or simply Welles, is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He released his debut studio album, Red Trees and White Trashes in 2018. Welles previously performed under the name Jeh Sea Wells and was also the frontman of the bands Dead Indian, formed in 2012, and Cosmic-American, formed in 2015.\n\nIn 2024, Welles garnered attention on social media for writing and performing folk protest songs, including \"The Poor\", \"Cancer,\" \"The Olympics,\" and \"United Health,\" as well as \"War Isn't Murder\", a track about the Israel-Palestinian War.\n\nVulture has described his music as \"A mix of old-fashioned folkie signifiers and trending-topic populism, delivered in hooky snippets on social media several times weekly.\" Welles was born in Ozark, Arkansas, and grew up there in Northwest Arkansas. He began playing guitar at age 11, and as a teenager he began recording songs which he sold on burned CDs. Welles lived for a while until early 2016 in an abandoned building turned art commune in the mountains around Fayetteville, and cites \"American wordsmiths\" Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Cormac McCarthy, and Mark Twain as influences. https://tinyurl.com/59afxbz9\n\nYou can follow Welles here: www.wellesmusic.com or on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2s6avuhv",
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