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Jesse Welles Eviscerates UnitedHealthcare in New Protest Song
Hear Jesse Welles' takedown of the healthcare industry in his new protest song.
With a melody pulled from John Prine’s “Fish and Whistle,” Welles cuts down UnitedHealthcare specifically — just a week after the shooting death of the company’s CEO in New York. “Way back in 70 and 7, Mister Richard T. Burke started buying HMOs putting federal grants to work/made 50 billion buckaroos last year/the Warren Buffett of health the Jeff Bezod of fear,” Welles sings, detailing the origins of the healthcare giant and its founder, before dropping a wickedly sharp line about last week’s murder: “Now CEOs come and go and one just went/the ingredients you got bake the cake that you get.” The singer-songwriter, who previously fronted the Fayetteville, Arkansas, rock band Dead Indian — a group that recalls the sonics and social message of Nineties alt-metal greats Warrior Soul — will kick off his new tour in February, which hits venues like Bowery Ballroom in New York, Terminal West in Atlanta, and the Basement East in Nashville.
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