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Jelly Roll Loves Quokkas. But What’s A Quokka?

Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
September 20th 11:45 AM

Jelly Roll has been selling out concerts nationwide. At a recent sold-out date in Oklahoma City, the venue donated to the World Wildlife Fund to protect one of Jelly’s favorite animals: a Quokka.

The quokka is a small macropod (animals such as kangaroos, wallabies, tree-kangaroos, and wallaroos) that is about the size of a domestic cat. The quokka’s range is a small area of southwestern Australia. They inhabit some smaller islands off the coast of Western Australia.

Jelly has a tattoo of the animal on his wrist. He read the sign on his Insta Stories hanging at the venue: “In honor of a Jelly Roll sold out show in Oklahoma City. Paycom Center made a donation to the World Wildlife Fund to protect the quokka species and their habitats.”

After reading it, Jelly said, “This might be the sweetest thing anybody’s ever done for me.”

In June, before he performed at CMA Fest in Nashville, he told us of his love for the small mammal, “I am infatuated with quokkas. For those who don’t know what a quokka is, Google ‘Happiest animal on earth’; you will see a quokka. They are always smiling. They have no known predators on their island, and they live off of eucalyptus leaves, which means they are always high, which means they are always happy.”

He grinned, “Anytime I get upset in life, I look down at my wrist. I think, “Just be a quokka: high and happy.”

RELATED: Jelly Roll And Wife Bunnie Renew Their Wedding Vows

Jelly said earlier in July that he regrets most of his ink. He said in a recent interview, when asked about his tattoo regrets, “Oh, 96 percent of them. I have more tattoo regrets than ‘Man, I’m glad I got this.'”

Jelly added, “How you think at 16 years old and how you think at 36 years old are so dramatically far apart from each other. It’s embarrassing.”

There are a few tats that Jelly doesn’t regret, though. He noted that he would keep the “tour tattoos” because they do have a “cool story.”

He also gave an example of one of his regrets, explaining, “I’ve got a Gerber baby smoking a joint tattooed on my arm. I don’t know who authorized this in my life or who was around me at this moment, but I hate them.”

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.”

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Author Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group
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