Jelly Roll’s CMA award was smashed beautifully, just like their new album of the same name.
The 39-year-old country music star told Jimmy Fallon on Monday night how, after becoming one of the oldest people to win New Artist of the Year at last year’s awards ceremony in Nashville, she immediately “misplaced” the glass award. Gave.
Fallon played a clip of the sound of glass breaking from backstage at the show during a live local broadcast.
“Oh my God, Jelly Roll broke his award,” WKRN-TV reporter Stephanie Langston can be heard saying to another reporter. “Yes, he is still standing there. I’m pretty sure this is his reward. He dropped it on the floor.”
“At first, when it first dropped, you could hear rat pee on the cotton,” Jelly Roll told Fallon. “I mean, it was absolutely quiet, and immediately after hearing the cricket fart, you heard a bunch of people say ‘oh’.”
He explained that the weight of the prize and his sweaty palms probably played a role in the unfortunate incident.
“I was so excited and so nervous that my palms were the sweatiest and trembling,” he said. “And that’s the thing – I’m already not a physically healthy person – and that’s heavy. That thing was really heavy.
“And I was so excited, and I was going to change it from one hand to the other to shake someone’s hand, and it just jumped,” he said. “And I was like – However, this is the story of my life, Jimmy. I finally got my life together. I won the biggest award – Best New Artist – I was one of the oldest people to win it. I was 39 years old. I gave a passionate speech and then I came backstage and just juggled the ball!”
“No, no, you stay. However, never stop being you,’ Fallon replied.
Jelly Roll said they “campaigned” for the awards show to let them keep the broken one instead of getting a new one.
“I was like, ‘I think it’s a great fit for me.’ ‘I’ll just duct tape it together,'” he told Fallon.
However the prize scattered was reportedly just a general prize.
A CMA official told The Tennessean last year that the awards had not yet been announced because the winners were not known in advance.
Jelly Roll also described a concert during his struggling artist days where only five people came, which led him to invite all the attendees to party in his van.
“There was a night when we played in Orangeville, outside of Sacramento, California, at a little place called The Boardwalk,” he explained.
“I pulled up, there were five people there, and I felt so bad for the door guy, the voice guy, and the concession guy. They were all the same person. And I felt so bad for him that I said, ‘Don’t even open the door.’ And I brought all five people into my RV.
He asked Fallon to imagine a “1975 Cheech and Chong RV”.
“Smoke was coming out of the hood. There was smoke coming out of the inside,” he said of his old RV. “It smelled of Willie Nelson and cheap beer. It was all bad, man. I actually brought all five of us over to the dirty RV and we partook in peaceful pipe together. And I just told them I was sorry I couldn’t perform.”
He explained that he canceled the show because he felt bad for the one person working the show “because, at the time, we had to hire two of the five people buying tickets to help him. He was working three jobs. Was.
Telling Fallon how he turned his life around after dozens of arrests in his teens and 20s, the 39-year-old said, “It sounds cliché, but [the answer] Have faith, find love. This softened my heart. I fell in love with a woman and got married. I had a daughter. It changed my whole life. She’s 16 now, so it’s getting interesting, but it’s still really cool.
“And it inspired me to be a better father and a better man. And I knew I was just a worthless person for so long, man. I [am] Just destroyed. I was just a bad person, and now I’m trying to change that. I’m a totally different guy, man. It’s amazing.”
He also talked about how he came up with the title of his new album and tour, “Beautifully Broken”.
“I think we’re all a little broken, but I think there’s beauty to be found in it,” he said. “And we use kintsugi for this idea that they do in Japan that if something is worth saving when it breaks, they bring it back with gold and they polish it. That’s our message, man, everyone should save.”
“Beautifully Broken” will be released on October 11.
