The year just keeps getting better for Jelly Roll. The “Son of a Sinner” singer added another notch to his gold belt on Thursday night (May 16) at the 2024 ACM Awards when he shared the Music Event of the Year award with Lainey Wilson at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco. Texas.
“First time nominee, first award and it couldn't have happened for a more meaningful song,” Jelly Roll said of his win for “Save Me” with Wilson on the Dick Clark Productions-produced show. Talking to you Advertising sign After the event, Jelly said he decided to add Wilson to the song after recording it solo because he wanted to “hear it from a woman's point of view”.
As an example of why this was definitely the right call, he said his stylist told him she heard the track “1,000 times and loved it,” but when she heard the version with Wilson she cried because, she told him, “that felt like us singing it one of us. I was like, 'WOW,' it just gave me chills. I knew then that it was going to be a special song.”
Jellie said he had a feeling Wilson was going to be the biggest star on the planet, but after the year she's had, he thought, “What a great year for me to have a song with her!”
While Jelly Roll has been in the game for a while before his big break in the last 24 months, he said he and friend Wilson talk all the time about the wild rocket ride of fame they've both been on lately and they love. to share notes and tips. “It was so awesome. We were so parallel and everything. We talk about it openly and honestly,” he said of the small group of fellow artists — which includes Cody Johnson — with whom he huddles to “put it all on the table.”
In the midst of a hot streak that had anyone and everyone knocking on his door for a collaboration, Jelly Roll had no problem naming the one call that impressed and excited him the most. “Whenever I got invited to do MusiCares with Jon Bon Jovi and then I'd meet Sir Paul McCartney at the same time,” she said of the February gala honoring the Bon Jovi founder, at which the country star performed a hard-hitting cover of Jersey. The rockers 'Bad Medicine'.
“There's a photo that exists on Earth of Sir Paul McCartney and Jon Bon Jovi at the same time… that was like, 'get out of here man!'” he joked about the photo he keeps sending. around friends and cursing is not a job in PhotoShop. Now that he's been honored for his collaboration with Wilson, Jelly Roll said the next duo collaborator on his bucket list is definitely Jersey giants Bon Jovi. Or James Taylor or Bob Seger.
Watch Jelly Roll talk about his big night and his stunning photo above.
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