Beaumonster

“Jesse has found an amazing and clear-cut writing voice to take us all on his epic journey. The talent this man has makes things like guitar playing (ripping, actually!), singing, and writing scripts and books seem effortless. You’ll find in these pages the preparation and hard work that has gone into the ‘making’ of a badass. Jesse Dayton is that . . . A true American bad motherf*cker.”—Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses, author of It’s So Easy and How to Be a Man

“Jesse’s Beaumonster is the friend you wanna hang out with: fun, smart, entertaining and definitively cool. If you like good writing and good stories, right here’s your next book.”—Kathy Valentine, author of All I Ever Wanted: A Rock n’ Roll Memoir and member of the Go-Go’s

“Jesse Dayton is the heart and soul of hillbilly rock ’n’ roll. The Beaumont badass is makin’ George Jones and the Big Bopper proud! Rave on you crazy and free hellraiser.”—Mojo Nixon, musician, actor, and radio personality

“Beaumonster is a rib-spreader. It opens up and lays bare the unique talent, the absurd luck, and breathtaking heartbreak that’s been Jesse Dayton’s life. But more than that, it’s a testimonial to the beauty one can create with persistence, stubbornness, and a little bit of audacity.”—Danny Bland, Tour manager, haikuist and author of In Case We Die

“So many artists strive to be original—Jesse Dayton just is. He wowed Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash with his guitar playing, toured with punk greats Social Distortion and X, and cultivated a wildly diverse fanbase of country hell-raisers, intellectual anarchists, and rockabilly dreamers along the way. Beaumonster documents Dayton’s winding two-lane blacktop as a singer, songwriter, studio musician, and solo artist, all in an East Texas drawl that is both confident and charmingly cocky. To paraphrase the title of one of his signature songs, ‘Jesse is a badass.’”—Joseph Hudak, Senior Editor at Rolling Stone