’s house lights blazing, the chanting began. “Jelleeeeeee! Jelllllllly! Jelleeeeeeeeeee! JELLY!”Jelly Roll
Jelly Roll, gold teeth flashing, strode onstage equally beaming and overtaken with emotion. As the band picked up momentum, Jelly — as his fans call him — started “Halfway to Heaven,” the album’s opening track. Like Kristofferson’s “The Pilgrim, Chapter 33,” the song tumbled through a survey of juxtapositions that suggests no matter how lost, one can be found and saved.
Taking a seat himself, he spent the next 70 minutes telling stories of how the songs were written, the life he’s lived and the way these songs work together. Clearly overwhelmed by the love, the 39-year old songwriter was about sharing “Whitsitt Chapel” as an album with the people who’ve been there over the course of 17 albums , various collaborations, genre shifts AND an industry who didn’t get what he was trying to do until an ascendence that began with the No.
With a gentler tone, he invoked whomever that person lost to addiction was for anyone in the Ryman, saying this next song was for them – and for them to share it with that person they loved who was going under. Later, YelaWolf, all in black with aviator shades and a Metallica T-shirt, would drop a scalding rap on the foreboding, minor-keyed trailer-life portrait “Unlive.” Co-written with Ashley McBryde, it was a cinema vérité song that served as perhaps the evening’s most impactful moment.
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