Jelly Roll is able to make historical past.
The nation star, together with Reba McEntire and Tim McGraw, shall be headlining Nashville’s first-ever rodeo.
“As a Nashville native, this felt like a chance to be a part of a history-making event for the city,” Jelly Roll mentioned in a press launch. “I have vivid memories when it was announced in Nashville that we were getting a hockey team with the Predators, or a football team with the Titans…and I watched Bridgestone Arena be built from the ground up. Headlining Music City Rodeo in my hometown as a part of the first rodeo brought to town feels like the same type of milestone.”
In a promotional video for the rodeo, Jelly Roll is seen behind a bar speaking to a bunch of cowboys. “Ain’t your usual stop, is it boys?” he mentioned.
“Right here in the heart of Broadway where honky tonk neon meets daredevil grit, rodeo and country music collide,” McEntire says in a voiceover, adopted by McGraw including, “Three nights of guts, glory and history in the making.”
Music Metropolis Rodeo is coming to Nashville’s Bridgestone Area from Could 29 to 31 in partnership with McGraw‘s Down Residence leisure group, Skydance Media and Humes Rodeo.
This would be the Tennessee metropolis’s first Skilled Rodeo Cowboys Affiliation (PRCA) occasion. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 7.
Performing on the rodeo appears to convey Jelly Roll full circle as he builds out his dream farm life along with his household.
The 40-year-old singer’s spouse shared movies of the household receiving three cows in January. Bunnie Xo’s video showcased three mini-cows named Crunch, Brownie and S’extra. “Our lil’ farm is starting,” she captioned the clip.
The plan had been to have one farm animal, however they ended up with three cows and a donkey after Jelly Roll had been “jealous” he didn’t have his personal animal. Jelly Roll and Bunnie added a donkey named Griz to their farm.
“I love the donkey,” Jelly Roll mentioned in a video of the animal arriving at his Nashville, Tennessee, ranch. “I can’t believe he’s that small!”
Two weeks after getting the donkey, Bunnie shared a video of a “special” day.
She wrote that the animal hadn’t let anybody contact him since he first got here to stay with them, noting that she was speaking to him daily to inform him he’s “loved & safe.”
Within the video, Bunnie pet the donkey for the primary time and wrote that she informed him “whenever he wants more loves, I’ll be here.”
“We kno, [sic] he needs a buddy- we’re working on it,” her caption learn.
Jelly Roll’s spouse has additionally been holding followers up to date with how issues are going with their cows. “At least 5-10 times a day I go outside just to hug this big Lug,” she wrote on a video shared to Instagram Monday.
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo bought a 500-acre property in Nashville to create their household residence and dream farm life.
In a video shared to Instagram, Jelly Roll defined he visited his uncle’s farm in Tennessee rising up. There, he discovered to experience four-wheelers, discovered to shoot a gun and discovered the “core traditional Southern values” of life.
“I’ll never forget. We left there [once] when I was probably 12 years old, and I talked to my father about it, said, ‘How come we never got a farm?’ He said, ‘Son, it’s probably one of the mistakes I regret the most, is that I didn’t buy dirt,’” Jelly Roll mentioned in a video posted to Instagram.
“He said, ‘They’re never gonna make no more of it, and if you don’t listen to no advice from me, buy dirt. Go get you some land.’”
Whereas Jelly Roll had bought the land to construct his household residence, he spent a lot of the final two years touring.
The “Save Me” singer shared a video of the property as he grew to become emotional whereas visiting it for the primary time in October.
“I came here today to pray over it,” he mentioned on the time. “I came here today to vision-cast in it. I came here today to just walk barefoot in it. And most important, I came here today to pull this phone out of my pocket and look y’all in the eye and say thank you, man. I never would have dreamed that this could have been anything about my story.”
“Thank y’all for just changing my life, man,” he continued, chatting with his followers. “Generational curses were broke because of y’all. I’m standing on it. I am standing here breaking a generational curse right now, and I hope that inspires one of y’all to do the same thing.”
Jelly Roll started his headlining tour in August 2024. The previous couple of years have been a wild experience for the nation singer, who gained new artist of the yr on the 2023 CMA Awards.
He took residence three awards that night time and one other three awards on the 2024 CMAs.
He first carried out on the Grand Ole Opry in 2021 and launched his hit singles, “Son of a Sinner” and “Need a Favor,” in 2022.
Jelly Roll, identified formally as Jason DeFord, started his singing profession in 2003. Nevertheless, he didn’t turn into mainstream till 2022 with the discharge of “Need a Favor” and “Son of a Sinner.”
“I wouldn’t be the man I am today if it wasn’t for what I went through. I think it empowered me. I think it gave me my voice,” he informed Fox Information Digital on the 2023 CMAs. “It taught me quite a bit about overcoming. It taught me quite a bit about altering and the power to alter.
“I was a horrible human for decades, and to just be able to turn that around and give a message in the music and help people … and just try to give back as much as I can in every way I can is very indicative of where I came from and how important it is to me to always reach back.”
All through his formative years, Jelly Roll struggled with substance abuse. The nation music star additionally frolicked behind bars for aggravated theft and possession with intent to promote.
The “Somebody Save Me” singer testified to Congress in January 2024 about the usage of fentanyl.
“It is important to establish earlier that I am a musician and that I have no political alliance. I am neither Democrat nor Republican. In fact, because of my past, my right to vote has been restricted,” Jelly Roll testified. “Thus far, I have never paid attention to a political race in my life. Ironically, I think that makes me the perfect person to speak about this because fentanyl transcends partisanship and ideology.”
He additional defined, “I was a part of the problem. I am here now standing as a man that wants to be a part of [the] solution.”
