Today, Jesse Welles announces his Spring “Under The Powerlines” 2026 tour of the United States. The tour will kick off February 23 in Knoxville, with shows in cities including Nashville, Atlanta, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Port Chester, and more (full dates below). Tickets for all these new dates will go on sale on Friday, August 22 at 10am local time here.
Jesse Welles recently announced his fifth studio album, Devil’s Den, which will be released this Friday. The album was performed and produced entirely by Welles over five days in a cabin in the Ozarks and follows his fourth studio album Pilgrim.
Welles continues to live up to his title as the prolific poet of the woods, and Devil’s Den follows Middle and Pilgrim, his third and fourth studio albums respectively, as well as Under the Powerlines (April 24 – September 24), a 63-song collection of recent field and live recordings, all three of which were released earlier this year.
Welles’s “Middle” tour of the United States and the EU/UK starts this October and all shows are currently sold out. Welles will also perform at Farm Aid on September 20 and made his debut at Newport Folk Festival this year. Tickets for all current dates are available here.
Devil’s Den continues the songwriter’s singular, unbridled creativity and gift for writing songs that speak truth to power with a plain-spoken and clear-eyed delivery. Rolling Stone calls his writing “wickedly sharp,” and he has earned comparisons to his heroes, Dylan, Prine, and Guthrie.
Jesse Welles was nominated for “Emerging Act of the Year” at the 2025 Americana Awards. Joan Baez also name-checked Welles in her recent Rolling Stone interview, saying, “the young guy. Just amazing. That’s going somewhere… He’s channeling that sort of stuff. It just comes through you. That’s what I saw, anyway.”
Welles has gone viral by performing stripped-down, acoustic songs often played to a smartphone camera in the Arkansas wilderness where he was raised and currently resides. Tracks like “War Isn’t Murder,” “United Health,” which the New Yorker says “takes John Prine’s craggy empathy and adds a tincture of Brian Jones’s sinister charisma,” and “Walmart” have earned him tens of millions of streams, over 2 million followers on social media, and a groundswell of acclaim. While Welles may have recently come to the attention of many due to the popularity of his videos across social media, he has been writing and performing since the age of 12, when he finally scrounged up enough money for a $56 first act guitar from Walmart. Bringing the guitar everywhere, he played along to the radio and gleaned wisdom from local old-timers. He fed his obsession by checking CDs out of his hometown’s public library and burning them to the family computer, embracing classics from Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Woody Guthrie.
Over the past decade, he launched his eponymous band, Welles, releasing music and touring incessantly. He logged 280 shows in a year, canvassing North America and Europe alongside the likes of Royal Blood, Highly Suspect, Greta Van Fleet, and Dead Sara. Dropped from his old label mid-pandemic, he quit a job at a vegan meat manufacturer and returned to Arkansas. In February 2024, life changed again when Dad suffered a heart attack. Sitting in his father’s hospital room with a Woody Guthrie biography on his lap, Jesse realized what he needed to do. “I was like, ‘I’m going to sing the news’,” he recalls. “There was a lot of war going on. That was bugging me, on top of my personal life. I’d done my best to give up music, but I couldn’t. I decided to do this on my own.”
Jesse Welles – Devil’s Den Track Listing
- The Great Caucasian God
- In The Morning
- Malaise
- Hold On
- It Don’t Come Easy
- Don’t Go Giving Up
- America, Girl
- Don’t We Get By
- Saddest Factory
- John
- This Age
JESSE WELLES TOUR[NEW DATES IN BOLD]
Sep 20, 2025 Farm Aid 40 Minneapolis, MN
Oct 18, 2025 Danforth Music Hall Toronto, ON Sold Out
Oct 23, 2025 Thalia Hall Chicago, IL Sold Out
Oct 24, 2025 Thalia Hall Chicago, IL Sold Out
Oct 29, 2025 The Ogden Theatre Denver, CO Sold Out
Oct 30, 2025 Ogden Theatre Denver, CO Sold Out
Nov 4, 2025 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA Sold Out
Nov 5, 2025 The Fillmore San Francisco, CA Sold Out
Nov 13, 2025 The Belasco Theater Los Angeles, CA Sold Out
Nov 14, 2025 Belasco Theater Los Angeles, CA Sold Out
Nov 20, 2025 Webster Hall New York, NY Sold Out
Nov 21, 2025 Webster Hall New York, NY Sold Out
Dec 5, 2025 3Olympia Theatre Dublin, Ireland
Dec 7, 2025 Old Fruitmarket Glasgow, Scotland Sold Out
Dec 8, 2025 Club Academy Manchester, UK Sold Out
Dec 9, 2025 Electric Ballroom London, United Kingdom Sold Out
Dec 11, 2025 Melkweg MAX Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dec 13, 2025 Amager Bio Copenhagen, DK
Dec 15, 2025 Metropol Berlin, Germany
Feb 23, 2026 Bijou Theatre Knoxville, TN
Feb 24, 2026 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN
Feb 25, 2026 The Eastern Atlanta, GA
Feb 27, 2026 The Orange Peel Asheville, NC
Feb 28, 2026 The Fillmore Charlotte Charlotte, NC
Mar 1, 2026 9:30 Club Washington, DC
Mar 4, 2026 The Fillmore Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
Mar 6, 2026 Citizens House of Blues Boston Boston, MA
Mar 7, 2026 The Capitol Theatre Portchester, NY
Mar 8, 2026 Massey Hall Toronto, ON
Mar 10, 2026 The Majestic Theatre Detroit, MI
Mar 11, 2026 The Sylvee Madison, WI
Mar 12, 2026 First Ave. Minneapolis, MN
Mar 17, 2026 Treefort Music Hall Boise, ID
Mar 19, 2026 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, BC
Mar 20, 2026 McMenamins Crystal Ballroom Portland, OR
Mar 21, 2026 The UC Theatre Berkeley, CA
Mar 22, 2026 The Observatory North Park San Diego, CA
Mar 24, 2026 The Van Buren Phoenix, AZ
Mar 26, 2026 Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater Austin, TX
Mar 27, 2026 Longhorn Ballroom Dallas, TX
Mar 28, 2026 JJ’s Live Fayetteville, AR
TheWaster.com | Devil’s Den
8.19.2025
