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Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Margo Price Pays Homage to Bob Dylan in ‘Don't Wake Me Up' Video
In the spring of 1965, Bob Dylan stood in an alley by London's Savoy Hotel and practically invented the music video by flipping through cue cards displaying words from 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' while the song played. Fifty years later, Margo Price is paying homage to the historic clip in the video for her new single 'Don't Wake Me Up' from her upcoming album Hard Headed Woman. Price takes the 'Don't Wake Me Up' cue cards on a journey to a bowling alley parking lot, a lush field, a dive bar, a cow patch, a honky tonk bar, a horse stable, a strip club, a factory, a liquor store, a graveyard, a trailer park, a Waffle House, and a strip mall. More from Rolling Stone Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival Tour Hits Pause After Extreme Weather Damages Gear How Many Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen Lyrics Can You Identify in This New York Writer's New Song? See Bob Dylan Play 'The Times They Are a-Changin' for First Time in 15 Years The song is a collaboration with singer/songwriter Jesse Welles. '[He] is one of my favorite new songwriters and a rare prolific artist who really has something to say,' Price says in a statement. 'I met him at Farm Aid, and I became a big fan of his lyrics as well as his voice. I'm so grateful he could join me to sing on this song.' 'Don't Wake Me Up' was inspired by the poems of Frank Stanford and started as a notebook entry that was flagged by Price's husband, Jeremy Ivey. 'We resurrected it with a melody,' Price said. 'The whole thing came together in ten minutes in one of those lightning bolt moments where you're tapped into something bigger than yourself. I wanted to remind people of all the places and ways that we are still allowed to dream even when the outside world seems like a nightmare.' Price recorded Hard Headed Woman in Nashville with longtime producer Matt Ross-Spang. Leadoff single 'Don't Let the Bastards Get You Down' was co-written by Ivey and Rodney Crowell, and posthumous credit was given to Kris Kristofferson. The album, which comes out August 29, also features a duet with Tyler Childers and a cover of the George Jones classic 'I Just Don't Give a Damn.' Price also just rolled out dates for an extensive headlining tour in the fall. All of her upcoming dates are below. 7/27 – Newport, RI @ Newport Folk Festival7/29 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park 7/31 – Huntsville, AL @ Orion Amphitheater 8/1 – Huntsville, AL @ Orion Amphitheater 8/3 – Portland, ME @ Back Cove Music & Arts Festival9/6 – Grand Rapids, MI @ Grand Rapids Riverfest9/7 – Evanston, IL @ Evanston Folk Festival9/13 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks w/ Greensky Bluegrass9/14 – Templeton, CA – Whale Rock9/20 – Minneapolis, MN @ Farm Aid9/27 – Dana Point, CA @ Ohana Music Festival10/2 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic (A Tribute to Emmylou Harris)10/5 – Ocean City, MD @ Country Calling Festival10/11 – Livingston, KY @ Moonshiners Ball10/23 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall10/24 – Kansas City, MO @ Knuckleheads10/25 – Bloomington, IL @ The Castle Theatre*10/28 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre10/29 – Fargo, ND @ Sanctuary Events Center10/31 – Bozeman, MT @ The ELM11/1 – Jackson Hole, WY @ Jackson Hole Center for the Arts – Center Theater11/2 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma11/4 – Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre11/5 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre11/7 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom11/8 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Hall11/9 – Crystal Bay, NV @ Crystal Bay Club Casino – Crown Room11/11 – South Salt Lake City, UT @ The Commonwealth Room!11/12 – Aspen, CO @ Belly Up Aspen!11/14 – Dallas, TX @ Longhorn Ballroom!11/15 – Austin, TX @ Emo's!11/16 – Helotes, TX @ John T. Floore's Country Store!11/18 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse11/20 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium11/21 – Louisville, KY @ Headliners Music Hall11/22 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew's Hall3/20-3/25 – Miami, FL @ Outlaw Country Cruise Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
New York Times
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Jesse Welles, a Folk Musician Who Sings the News, Is Turning the Page
In a small home recording studio on a Monday afternoon in January, Jesse Welles sat with a guitar on his lap, dressed head-to-toe in black. Welles, a singer-songwriter with a shaggy, dirty-blond mane and a sandpapery voice, has risen to recent prominence posting videos to social media of himself alone in the woods near his home in northwest Arkansas, performing wryly funny, politically engaged folk songs. He's managed to turn subjects like the war in Gaza, the rise of the weight-loss drug Ozempic and the rapaciousness of United Healthcare's business model into viral hits on TikTok and Instagram, building an audience of more than 2 million followers on those platforms. But the song he was recording in that basement in East Nashville, 'Simple Gifts,' is a different beast. As he delicately plucked his acoustic guitar, he sang its earnest opening lines — 'Slouching towards the sky's extent from the edges of a waste / Was something darker than a hope, something brighter still than fate' — sketching out an imagistic tableau untouched by current events. Welles's new album, 'Middle,' due Feb. 21, is similarly minded. 'The only filter placed on it was I wasn't doing topical songs for this project,' he said. 'These are ones that are self-indulgent, or at least I feel like they are at times. I like to do both. They're two different mediums.' Image Jesse Welles's protest songs deftly blend the whimsical with the serious, turning topics like Walmart and the war in Gaza into viral hits on TikTok and Instagram. Credit... Eric Ryan Anderson for The New York Times The producer, Eddie Spear, rose from behind a mixing board and adjusted the microphone in front of Welles. Most of the songs on 'Middle' are recorded with a full band, but for 'Simple Gifts' and the album's title track, the setup was pared down to a solitary microphone. 'I'm trying to honor what people are enjoying about Jesse,' said Spear, who has also worked with Zach Bryan and Sierra Ferrell. 'We thought getting a really simple capture in this way might tie in where he's come from and honor this particular period of his career.' Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
