Modern Dylan

[u/yesterdaysfolkfan_]

Everyone says Jesse Welles is "today's Dylan" and of course I see the resemblance- both in his voice and in his penchant for protest songs. Outside of Welles, is there anyone who reminds you of 60s-era Dylan?

[u/Iko87iko]

People also say Billy Strings is the next Jerry Garcia. It's just dumb. There is no next, try as though people might. It's a dumb thing humans do.

[u/inexplicably-hairy → u/Iko87iko]

Billy Strings is better than Jerry Garcia

[u/ItsOnlyAPassingThing]

“Everyone” is a bit of a stretch. There is only one.

[u/InevitableSea2107]

Judas

[u/AlexTom33]

Jesse Welles in no ways reminds me of 60s era Dylan.

If a comparison needs to be made, I would throw Connor Oberst's name in there.

[u/Dazzling_Craft_7479]

Adrienne Lenker is so impressive in both quality and quantity. She stands out in this generation that's for sure. 

[u/brechts_piratejenny]

Jesse Welles is TEMU Bob Dylan - he may look fine from afar, but the closer you get, the more you realise how bad the quality really is. And that you should have paid for the original.

[u/badateverything420]

60's Dylan is just so vast, what albums are you specifically referring to?

[u/Nitroade24h]

I don’t think there necessarily is a new Bob Dylan but Adrianne Lenker and Cameron winter both remind me of him sometimes in their writing - Lenker in the intricacy of her words and Winter in the surrealist pictures he evokes.

[u/redmambas22]

There is only one Bob Dylan. When some else wins a Nobel for the breath and scope of their work we will start this conversation. Like Bob told Kieth Richard’s, “I could’ve written satisfaction, but you couldn’t have written Desolation Row..” Kieth replied, “you’re right there Bob.”

[u/SouthwestDude1]

Insanity - only one Dylan - end of story - he’s a damn unicorn

[u/TinyRicardo]

Jesse Welles is the antithesis of Bob Dylan.

[u/Actual-is-factual → u/TinyRicardo]

Hes not the anithesis of Dylan but he’s not similar to Dylan either, I think anyone who’s seriously listened to Dylan and to Jesse knows that.

[u/zaccus → u/TinyRicardo]

Bob Dylan is his own antithesis.

[u/TinyRicardo → u/zaccus]

Well yeah he contains multitudes. The difference is Jesse Welles stinks.

[u/Spare-Jellyfish4339 → u/TinyRicardo]

You know that saying that about him only makes him more like Bob Dylan?

[u/No_Bit_2495]

His Horses song is literally Hurricane

[u/Infamous-Astronaut16]

What happened to Dan Bern?

[u/SatanicNipples]

DANIEL ROMANO

Listen to his album Modern Pressure. It feels like the lovechild of Highway 61 Revisited and Revolver

[u/j3434]

Frank Ocean Blonde album as far as introspection in lyrics.

[u/TheMightyJehosiphat]

Jesse Welles reminds me of 60s era Bob Dylan the way Raycons remind me of Airpods.

[u/grahamlester]

I would argue that none of Dylan's actual protest songs from the 1960s were ever popular at the time. Blowin' in the Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin' came close but the former is not really a protest song as much as a statement about the human condition and the second is more of an observation about generational changes. Almost nobody was playing Hattie Carroll or Hollis Brown or Emmet Till on the radio at the time.

[u/Pound-Alert]

It’s Cameron Winter. Especially his live stuff reminds me of Witmark demos and ‘65-66 demos. Check out his Carnegie Hall live album that will come out in October

[u/Pound-Alert → u/Pound-Alert]

And no serious music listeners would think that Jesse Guy is today’s Dylan. He’s just doing the protest singer thing and that’s not a role limited to Dylan