Welles

“Seventeen” is the latest single from the Arkansas-based indie artist Welles. It will be on his debut album “Red Trees And White Trashes” which will be released on June 15^th via 300 Entertainment. “Seventeen” is a gritty, passionate offering produced by Grammy-winner Dave Cobb, best known for his work with Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton. The bulk of “Red Trees and White Trashes” was written while Welles was living in a communal art compound in the college town of Fayetteville, Arkansas. Friends of varying artistic disciplines all shared an apartment building they dubbed “Space Mountain.”

“Some of us worked on bicycles, some of us were doing painting and art,” he explains. “It was our own little Andy Warhol experiment. It was crazy.” Welles recalls drawing instant inspiration from Kurt Cobain when first hearing Nirvana’s “Lithium” in middle school, “I heard this American just barely getting through the lyrics and I was like ‘OK. This is cool. I can do this.”

Welles is the project of 23- year-old rock singer-songwriter Jesse Welles. This new music follows Welles' debut EP called “Codeine,” which was released last year.  He is currently on tour in Europe and the U.K. supporting Highly Suspect.

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