Jesse Welles - Better To Die In Iran

[red dog 1]

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. His videos have been great.

And it doesn't hurt that he looks like Bon Jovi.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Back to his standby Harmony Stella H928 Parlor Guitar (1956-1957)

He’s the last entry in a stellar list of Stella guitar players.

Leo Kottke
Lead Belly
R.L. Burnside
Kurt Cobain
Ben Gibbard
Michael Hurley
Skip James
Robert Johnson
Justin Vernon
Blind Willie McTell
Charlie Patton
Elvis Presley
Tom Petty[3]
Doc Watson
Leon Bridges
Jesse Edwin Davis
Mason Williams
Neal Schon
Willie Nelson
Luke Doucet
Son House
Willie Brown
Maybelle Carter
B.B. King[4]
Kerry Livgren
Howlin Wolf
Mississippi John Hurt
Hobo Jim[5]
Muddy Waters[6]
Jesse Welles[7]

[littlemissmartypants]

3. And that's noteworthy because? Please elaborate, BB. TY. ❤️

[Brother Buzz]

5. I'm a total gear freak

I often drive deep into the weeds chasing down the particulars of artists and their instruments of choice.

Jesse Wells’ Stella is a solid guitar

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Is there something special about the Stella?

[Brother Buzz]

7. They stopped making the Stella over fifty years ago

I believe Jesse playing a Stella twice as old as he is fits his personality perfectly.

[littlemissmartypants]

8. Nice. Thanks, BB. 🎸❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

4. TGIJW...

This hero has been working for the cause for almost ten years.

He should have a million more subscribers.

Jesse Welles
Description
Come for the songs, stay for the songs
Biography
Jesse Allen Breckenridge Wells, known professionally as Jesse 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. He was also the frontman for the band Welles.
In 2024, Welles garnered attention on social media for writing and performing folk protest songs, including "The Poor", "Cancer", "The Olympics", "United Health", "Join ICE", and "War Isn't Murder", a track about the Gaza war. Vulture 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". He has been described as a modern Woody Guthrie. In 2025, Welles received four nominations at the 2026 Grammy Awards.

Thanks so much for sharing this, red dog 1. ❤️

[erronis]

9. Lyrics to this very moving song.

"Better To Die In Iran"

On the 33rd day of the new permawar
The April Fools came out. Said, "Wait
There's more
Unlike anything you've ever seen before
An unstoppable military force
Just be sure to check the lint traps on the USS Ford."

While the parents of the dead beg, "Finish the job. Hurry."
Just whose anger is it?
An operation "Epic Fury"

They say that it's better to die in Iran for your country and your pride
Than to live in a nation that would ask you to be kind
Better to die in Iran to go out in style
Than to prosecute a rapist or convict a pedophile

Better to die in Iran to go down in the fight
Than to accept that the future might not be all-white
Better to die in Iran than to cure the nation's hunger
Take their supreme leader, make him 30 years younger

They're a threat but not a threat
We've already won
We're still winning
Rather fly around the moon than to ever stop the killing

Better to die

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jessewelles/bettertodieiniran.html

[orangecrush]

10. Kick

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. Outstanding.

[2naSalit]

12. K&R!!

[NowsTheTime]

13. Check out his concert: "Boston, MA Under The Powerlines Tour 2026" Incredible!