Jesse Welles

Yeah.

I, you know, there's a lot, there's a lot of folks doing it right now and, and more every day, but there was, I mean, there's a precedent for that kind of work.

Um, especially as far as like Woody, Woody Guthrie was really the, I was reading, I was

And my old man was in the hospital.

He had just had a heart attack, and we didn't know what way it was going to go or whatever.

Anyway, I don't know, just seeing him all hooked up to that stuff and thinking, if he died...

I've hardly had any time to even know him.

He's hardly had any time to know anything.

We don't get very long down here, and I'm reading this Woody Guthrie biography, and I was just like, oh, I'm going to do this.

I'm going to sing the news.

Ha ha.

Because that's really what Woody was kind of doing in his day.

Because there's folk music around him, and he'd team up with Pete Seeger, and he was on radio programs, and he could have played.

He had the choice.

He could have played standards.

He could have played country western music and stuff like that.

But he liked making folks laugh, and he liked telling it how it was.

I like both those things.

Yeah, 67.

He got Huntington's disease and was laid up in a home for quite a while.