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Ashley McBryde Says Nothing Compares To Touring With Jelly Roll

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Jelly Roll won a bunch of awards, including Male Artist of the Year at the People's Choice Country Awards last week (9/28). Ashley McBryde is currently opening shows for Jelly Roll, and when I interviewed her recently, she told me about the man everyone is talking about. Ashley shared about her friend, “He’s so loving and so inviting. I love being on the road with him. The culture he has created with his band, crew, and everything about that is really welcoming.”

She added, “He told me my first day, ‘You’ll never feel more at home on any tour than you will on this tour.’ And I thought at first, ‘Aw, I don’t know, I’ve toured with some really amazing tours.’ He told me, ‘You’ll never feel more at home with any fanbase than you are with mine,’ and he’s right. His fan base is so diverse, and at first, when you look at a snapshot of it, you go, ‘These people don’t all belong under the same canopy right now,’ but they do. And that feeling while you’re watching a show is amazing.”

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McBryde did say when you go to a Jelly Roll show, you better get there early. She noted, “They show up early, and every seat is filled. If you don’t show up by 4 o’clock, you’re not getting in your seat by the time Jelly takes the stage. Every seat is filled.”

Ashley did admit that she’s a bit looser with her language when on stage before Jelly. She said, “There’s a disclaimer at the top of the show that there will be profanity used, and I try not to curse into a microphone before dark, which is not always possible. But at Jelly’s shows, I don’t have the same bridle on because it’s taken off of us.”

McBryde posted a photo of herself and Jelly on Instagram recently. She captioned the image, “There is no better hype man than Jelly Roll. He never brings me on stage without reminding me of my accomplishments and sharing that with his fans. Who, by the way, are the finest fans you’ll encounter across any genre. He said I’d feel right at home, and that rang true every night. Some family we are born with… some family we get to discover. I’m so glad we found one another. @jellyroll615.”

4 Songs That Made Jelly Roll A Country Star

  • "Save Me" (solo version) (2020)

    Jelly first released this song in June of 2020. At the time, he said of the song’s video, “This one is a bit of a curveball for me. I don’t usually do these stripped-down acoustic videos, but writing this song made me feel something. I felt y’all needed some insight into the more vulnerable side of the music business.” The song was later re-recorded as a duet with Lainey Wilson.

  • "Son of A Sinner" (2022)

    This is Jelly Roll’s first single released to the country music format. It is also his first number-one song on country radio. The song is about Jelly Roll’s personal life as a traveling musician and his personal struggles with drug addiction. Jelly said that he was intoxicated while recording the vocal track.

  • "Need A Favor" (2022)

    Jelly’s second number-one song on country radio. It centers on a man on the verge of losing the love of his life and praying for God to do him a favor, admitting he does not deserve it, and hoping to repent for his past actions.

  • "Save Me" duet with Lainey Wilson (2023)

    An official remix of the song with Lainey Wilson was released on May 12, 2023, as the second single from Jelly’s album Whitsitt Chapel. Jelly and Lainey performed it together at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards and later at the finale of season 21 of “American Idol.”

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
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