Jesse Welles

But there's a lot of tunes to choose from, right?

Usually on the set I'll play a lot of these topical ones and then bring the band up and then we'll play the other records that I got.

But no, I was just at Newport and then we did Edmonton Folk Fest and here in a little bit I'll do Farm Aid and Healing Appalachia.

Farm Aid...

Like last year around this time, John Cougar Mellencamp sent me an email and was like, Jesse, I would like you to play at Farm Aid.

But it was from a weird email address and I didn't believe it was him.

But it was totally him just like emailing through his girlfriend's email or something.

That's hilarious.

And so I showed it to one of the...

like one of my friends he has managed and he's like I'll vet this out we'll see if this is legit and sure enough it was anyway go down to Farm Aid and that's like one of the first gigs that I play as this iteration of myself um

But I got to meet a lot of cool people and get to be friends with a lot of them, too.

Lucas Nelson, it was very cool to meet him last year, and now I think we'll be doing a tune together here before too long.

Nice.

Him, I got to meet Charlie over there at Farm Aid.

Charlie... Charlie Crockett.

No, I don't know.

That's maybe the only thing that AI is not going to overcome.

I would be worried.

I don't understand why musicians are... You know, they're making...

Listen, artists, everything that can be replaced will be replaced, okay?