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Jelly Roll Is Petrified People Won’t Show Up To His Arena Tour

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Jelly Roll announced his headlining 2024 “Beautifully Broken Tour” on his social media yesterday morning (2/22). It’s what he called the “Biggest Tour Of My Life.” The tour will kick off in August and go through October.

We talked with Jelly yesterday afternoon (2/22), and he admitted that he is nervous that tickets for his tour may not sell. He explained, “I was a kid that, at different stages of my life, would pass out a hundred birthday party invitations at my school and not get one RSVP. So that childhood trauma triggers just a little bit when tours go on sale.”

Jelly continued, “I don’t admit that publically very often, but I’ll be honest: it’s a thing where you’re like, ‘This is a birthday party nobody comes to.’ I’m at Madison Square Garden, and I’m like, what the f—? It costs me money, and Live Nation boots me out and ruins my career. I’m already a dark-thought guy, so it scares me. I’m playing where the New York Knicks play. We’re playing where the Atlanta Hawks play. We’re playing where the Los Angeles Lakers play; you know what I’m saying? We’re playing where the Grammys were. It’s huge, so I was petrified.”

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Country music’s “it” guy and hometown Nashville hero added with a laugh, “And nobody’s eased my mind yet, by the way; not one person on my team has grabbed me like, ‘Yo, the announcements going good.'”

Jelly looks to the back of the bar, “I’m getting a thumbs up now from my manager because I begged for it. And he could be lying to me, ‘Like, quit being so honest.'”

He laughs, “Hopefully, it does good. It’s just that I think the arena proper tour is the big one. That’s a really big ticket, man. I did it at home, and now it’s like, ‘Can I do it everywhere?’ That’s what I’m anxious to see.”

Jelly posted all the tour’s dates and how fans can get tickets on his Instagram. He captioned the post in part, “I’m going to do it really, really big this year— I can’t wait to see y’all at a show. Come party with us!”

Jelly Roll: 4 Songs Before He Smashed Into Country Music

  • "Dead Man Walking" (2021)

    This hard rock song was released two years ago from his Ballads of the Broken album. That album is the first major-label album by Jelly Roll. “Dead Man Walking,” released as a single, reached number one on the US Mainstream Rock chart. The album also included “Son of a Sinner,” his first country chart-topper.

    See that video here.

  • "Smoking Section" (2015)

    This song comes from his 2015 album, Therapeutic Music 5. The song talks about smoking weed and being in jail. In the song, Jelly does a lot of rapping along with singing the chorus, which includes the lyrics, “I hope that Heaven has a smoking section/ I hope that Heaven has a smoking section/ When it’s said and done and we’re all gone/ I hope they got a place that we can blow / I hope that Heaven has a smoking section.” Jelly’s mom appears in the music video.

  • "Wheels Fall Off" (2017)

    This song came off of Jelly’s 2017 album, “Addiction Kills.” The music video for the song has over 53 million views and features his wife, Bunnie Xo. The couple were married in 2016. The song and video include a lot of swear words, sexual situations, and guns.

    See that video here.

  • "Hate Goes On" - (2017)

    This song also comes from his album, Addiction Kills. The music video for the song starts with Jelly in a chair getting his hair cut and shaved. Much of the music video was filmed in Sally’s Famous Kitchen in Jelly’s home neighborhood, a suburb of Nashville: Antioch.

    See that video here.

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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