Singer · Songwriter · Multi-instrumentalist
Dustin Welch
Finger-style, open-tuned, Appalachian-flavored songs, strange and beautiful.
The trilogy
Three albums, one journey
“…the first record being the descent into hell, the second one being purgatory, and this one being sort of the redemption.”Dustin Welch
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Part I · 2009
Whisky Priest
The Descent
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Part II · 2013
Tijuana Bible
Purgatory
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Part III · 2019
Amateur Theater
The Redemption
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Amateur Theater Available Now
Every now and then, a songwriter is gifted by their subconscious — or perhaps even a higher, more mysterious power — with a song in a dream. It might be just a fragment: a key line or chorus, a snatch of melody that lingers through the fog of waking up, or perhaps even a world-shaking riff on the order of "Satisfaction." Dustin Welch can attest to the phenomenon himself, having…
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Bio
Born on a cold Winter Solstice
Dustin Welch was born on a cold Winter Solstice in a haunted plantation house on the grounds of a Tennessee horse farm. His birth room was heated by a red-hot $80 tin stove that burned whatever deadwood trees his dad could drag out of the woods by tractor and chains. He was the first born son of a first born son. His…
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Songwriting for veterans
SOLDIER SONGS & VOICES is a non-profit organization I run and volunteer for every week. We give music and songwriting lessons to Armed Forces Veterans free of charge, and even provide them with guitars as a vital means of self-expression and psychological healing. We now have chapters scattered throughout the country, as well as a handful down in…
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