What do you do when you’ve received accolades from the press for your debut album, toured Europe, performed with Greta Van Fleet and the Regrettes, and been compared to Kurt Cobain? You come home to Nashville and you play a show for your friends. That’s what Welles — the moniker of singer-songwriter Jesse Wells — is doing on March 16th, as he thunders back into town to play a rip-roaring set at the Basement. If you’ve missed out on his smash single "Seventeen" or his debut album Red Trees and White Trashes, think of Welles’s sound as Ty Segall meeting Jay Reatard and going at it all over the genre spectrum. On stage, Welles’s higher-octane tracks will have you jumping as he gets in your face; his more soulful tunes will leave you standing in awe. Check him out at the Basement on March 16th, and take a listen to "Seventeen" below. – Will Sisskind
