Jelly Roll Wants to Party at XTU’s Anniversary Show

Jelly Roll Wants to Party at XTU's Anniversary Show

Last Thursday and Friday, 92.5 XTU and you, XTU Nation spent over 20 hours raising money for St. Jude Children's Hospital. XTU and the Delaware Valley raised over $313k for kids with cancer by becoming Partners in Hope. You stuck by us and supported Andie Summers, Jeff Kurkjian, Nicole Michalik, and Razz as they told you the heartbreaking or incredible stories of real St. Jude patients. Within the past four years of having 92.5 XTU's Annual Country Cares for St. Jude Radiothon, we have raised over 1 billion dollars. That's incredible.

St. Jude will not stop their research, their care, and their fight until no child dies from cancer. With the help of St. Jude, children who have been diagnosed with the disease and their families will never pay a bill for treatment, housing, food, transportation, or any other care.

Every hour, we asked XTU Nation to become a "Partner In Hope." You became a monthly donor for St. Jude and received an awesome "This Shirt Saves Lives" t-shirt and zip-up hoodie. We absolutely could not have reached our goal without you.

We did ask for some extra help from our favorite country artists. Despite his incredibly busy schedule, Best New Artist, Jelly Roll, called in to support the cause. Jelly Roll spoke with Andie, Jeff, Nicole, and Razz about one of his favorite artists in country music, Lainey Wilson. The Entertainer of the Year will be headlining XTU's Anniversary Show in 2024. When we told Jelly about this, he said, "I'm gonna crash y'alls party with Lainey." Here's to hoping for a special appearance from Jelly Roll next summer!

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Jelly Roll has become a country music sensation, topping the country charts, winning his first CMA award, and being nominated for a couple of GRAMMY Awards, one in the all-genre New Artist category and the other in the Best Country Duo/Group for his collaboration "Save Me" with Lainey Wilson.

Everyone, including his fellow country stars, is talking about him. Luke Bryan told us his thoughts on Jelly when we interviewed him recently. He said, "Jelly Roll and I have been at some events together. We hung out at a backstage festival a month and a half ago briefly. I think what Jelly Roll embodies and represents is something really, really special. When I'm around him, the way he holds himself. You are just drawn to him. He's such a star in that role."

Bryan added, "Every time I'm around the guy, he's just so intriguing and interesting. I think his form of country music speaks to a potentially forgotten box of people in country music, and he's able to really speak to that crowd."

He continued, "What makes him special is, as a fan, you get to see into his world, which is a world of a lot of people, and I think that's what you have to do to rise where he has risen. To speak to people and tell your story honestly. He tells his story the good, the bad, and the ugly, and I think that's what people love about him. You know, life's journey is not all squeaky, clean, and beautiful, with no bumps in the road. I think he lets a lot of people not feel alone."

It's been a whirlwind of a year for the native Nashvillian. Jelly took fan questions on his Insta Stories not long ago and touched on several subjects, including his mental health, after wrapping his headlining "Backroad Baptism Tour" and why he is going without his phone through the end of the year.

When a fan asked about his mental health, Jelly replied, "This is probably too honest, but exhausted and unstable. Definitely when I get through the holidays, and I've got a lot of stuff to do between now and the holidays, but when I get through the holidays, I really need to take some personal time."

Jelly Roll talked about the importance of therapy in a recent interview on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Jelly described himself as an "old-school Southern man." He noted that his relationship with God and faith are also key parts of his evolution.

Jelly added that he believes in "God and therapy." He said he is "extremely open-minded" in his "old age." Jelly offered, "I quit searching to be happy, and I started searching to be useful." That's when everything changed for him, and he strives to "be a man of service" and to help people.

We all know his country hit songs like "Son of A Sinner," "Need A Favor," and the duet remix of his song "Save Me" with Lainey Wilson. As we continued celebrating this unique and gracious artist, we thought we would get familiar with some of his songs before he made such a significant mark in country music.

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.

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.

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.

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.