1 00:00:01,240 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show. 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:09,719 Speaker 1: Fair all right, So Thursday sat down with jelly Roll. 3 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: He came in during his lunch hour. He just woke 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: up and we had a great conversation and all of 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: this will be included on the podcast Thinking Out Loud, 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:21,799 Speaker 1: which will be out next week with jelly Roll. So 7 00:00:21,840 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: we started talking about his tour. Y'all, did you know 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 1: he is doing a forty four city tour and he's 9 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: basically sold out. Jelly Roll is selling out everywhere he goes. 10 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. So that's where the conversation starts. 11 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: Let me give you a little bit right here. Look 12 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,879 Speaker 1: at this forty four sold out nights. But then you 13 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: look at like a Taylor Swift whatever, how many shows 14 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: is she doing. She's like like eight hundred thousand shows 15 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 1: in one year. 16 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 2: She's been to break every record on Earth. It's been 17 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:51,959 Speaker 2: the funnest thing to watch and. 18 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: What she's doing, you know, but you're providing the same thing. 19 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift is doing these shows that are just like 20 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: visually stunning. Every movie she makes on stage is an 21 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,120 Speaker 1: Instagram moment. Everything she says is just perfectly placed. Your 22 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: show makes you feel the same, but it seems like 23 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: it's the opposite. I'm sure there a lot of planning 24 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: going on in the shows. You have a set list, 25 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: but it looks like you guys are just up there, like, 26 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: just do what do you want to do next? All right, 27 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 1: let's do that show. 28 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,759 Speaker 2: It's pretty close, man, we're just jamming, dude, we're doing 29 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: I left a lot of room in my set open 30 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: for that, like for the feeling of the room, you 31 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: know what I mean, because I feel like music is 32 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 2: supposed to meet people where the room is, and we're 33 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 2: also like I don't know why I've always been this way, 34 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,759 Speaker 2: but I feel like it sounds a little better when 35 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: it's a little sloppy. 36 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: Well, it's normal, it's organic. 37 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like there's this like supernatural thing, which I 38 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 2: love what Taylor does too. I am a swiftye. For 39 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 2: the record, there, you got to go on the record. 40 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 2: First time we've ever talked about this publicly. Somebody clip 41 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 2: it and send it to Taylor. I love her. She's 42 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: from Hendersonville, Tennessee, and we never met, but we're like neighbors. 43 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 2: But uh, our stuff's just like a little more sloppy 44 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 2: in general, and that it's just you know, I don't know. 45 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 2: Bob Singer is another Bob Sigaret quote. He had two 46 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 2: of my favorite quotes of music. He said that one 47 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 2: just search for songs you can sing with conviction. That's 48 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 2: quote is on my studio wall now, songs you can 49 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,400 Speaker 2: sing with conviction. Yep, just that easy, Like what the 50 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 2: most easy way to think of it, like, just search 51 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 2: for songs that you can sing with conviction. And he said, man, 52 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 2: it was something different about the Silver Bullet Band because 53 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 2: they played just a little sloppier. He was like, it's 54 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 2: just something that made it feel more, you know, like 55 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 2: he's when he talked about what he thought his best 56 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 2: records were, it was like anytime I did something with 57 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: a Silver Bullet band, it was just a little more grid, 58 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: a little more slop to it. You know. 59 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 1: Is that just a known thing on the stage with 60 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: your band or do you ever have to stop down 61 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: and go, hey, can you slop this up? No? No, no, 62 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: I have to unslop them. 63 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to catch them backstage before the show, 64 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 2: like somebody had the tequila for another hour, you know, 65 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 2: saying because these guys will go gus. 66 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: You guys seem like you run it high and hard. 67 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: I mean after forty four sold that shows, are you 68 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 1: gonna be ready for Oh no, dude, we'll do good. 69 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: We'll sleep. I gets some rest. 70 00:02:58,040 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 2: But I also, man, I'm telling you, dude, I drank 71 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 2: probably two nights this whole to another band, those Degenerates. 72 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: So look, you've been doing music a while now, now 73 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: that you've been under the road, what do you what 74 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: have you learned about anything? The fans, the music, the travel, whatever. 75 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: That is kind of a surprise to you, maybe a 76 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:17,679 Speaker 1: tough question to answer with. I'm thinking about it for 77 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: a minute, like what, Like there's gotta be a learning 78 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: journey going on for you. 79 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 2: Well, I'm surprised still at how many people know me 80 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: outside of the show. Like this whole thing to me, 81 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 2: Elvis is still I don't understand it yet. 82 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: Like we still pulled up to like I left. 83 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: My show the other day to go to like I'm 84 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 2: storing Maine, And on the way back, I had a 85 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,119 Speaker 2: moment where I was like, man's traffic always it's bad 86 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,600 Speaker 2: here on a Tuesday, and it was my concert traffic 87 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 2: and we were waiting on the police escort to come 88 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 2: get us. 89 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: You were the problem. 90 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: I was the problem. I was like, this isn't like 91 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 2: I still don't get that. That's what's surprising me the most. 92 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 2: It's just crazy. This is all awesome, but just I 93 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 2: didn't expect it. I don't know what I think. Even 94 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 2: when you look at the ticket sale numbers, you're like, 95 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 2: this is a lot of humans, This is a lot 96 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,080 Speaker 2: of souls and stories coming into the show tonight. But 97 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:09,680 Speaker 2: until you see them, and when you see them in 98 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 2: the arena, it's one thing. But when you see them 99 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 2: in the parking lot, tailgating and partying, or you know 100 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:17,840 Speaker 2: what I mean, like you see the city's hotel selling out, 101 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 2: You're like, I couldn't imagine what Taylor Swift feels like. 102 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: Dude. 103 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: I mean you talk about her, dude, she shakes the 104 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,360 Speaker 2: entire city's economy. 105 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: They show up on the Richter scale, they literally did 106 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: one night. God, I pray for that. You want to 107 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: shake the earth. 108 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,480 Speaker 2: And you got to think my fan base physically, her 109 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 2: fan base is twice the size of ten times the 110 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 2: size of mine with people. But my fan base physically 111 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 2: is twice the size of her fan base. So could 112 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: you imagine to wait? Yeah, right, you know what I mean, 113 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: Like a lot more adults. 114 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: You know what I got. 115 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: You could you imagine the damage we would cause the 116 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 2: met Life Stadium if we ever got there. 117 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: You know what, did you play all the roadhouses? Did 118 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 1: you ever play a show where you see the movies 119 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 1: where they put chicken wire up in front? I played 120 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: one of those. Tell them what we're was going with 121 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: because some people don't understand what chicken wire and in 122 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: front of the stage. This is a real thing. 123 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 2: They put up chicken wire, And I asked them the 124 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 2: first time I got to play one, I said, why 125 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 2: don't y'all put why chicken wire? They said, because when 126 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 2: people were throwing the beer bottles and they were hitting 127 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 2: like regular fencing, it would still crack and go through. 128 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 2: They were like, the chicken wire just kills everything. So 129 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:25,360 Speaker 2: these guys, I mean, because these bars were literally rowdy 130 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: enough that you got behind the chicken wire because they 131 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: start throwing stuff. I've been I've had the most fascinating 132 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: time Elvis watching all these artists get stuff thrown at 133 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 2: them on TikTok and I'm just all these people never 134 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 2: played a bar. Like if you're like, you don't know, 135 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like not to have stuff 136 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 2: thrown at me. You know what I'm saying, I've only 137 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 2: played to this day people throw brawls or pots. I 138 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: get lots of pot. I mean, like Cypress Hill amounts 139 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 2: of pot thrown on the stage of It's like I've 140 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 2: been gettingtuff throw at me my whole I played The 141 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 2: Gathering of the Juggalos. Somebody shot a bottle rocket at me. 142 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,719 Speaker 1: Once a bottle with a live bottle rocket. Yes, they 143 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: can get through chicken wire. It proved I could get 144 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 1: through chicken wire. But yeah, we played. 145 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:06,799 Speaker 2: I played a spot in Louisbourg, Tennessee that had chicken 146 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 2: wire at it. I'll never forget. I played a lot 147 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 2: of places that had big fences or just big you know, 148 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: it's man them old just scary bars, dude. 149 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:16,040 Speaker 1: But yeah, I would think that if you're playing a 150 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: roadhouse and they're throwing long Star beer bottles at you, 151 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:20,320 Speaker 1: you are getting hit with the liquid of the beer, 152 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: the backwash. That could be like success. They love me. 153 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: They're all getting messed up out there, they're loving the show. 154 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah. 155 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:28,719 Speaker 2: It was like the first time I played The Gathering, 156 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 2: they shot me with fago and I didn't understand that 157 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 2: that was how they endeared you, like if they sprayed 158 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: fago at you, if if they sprayed pe at you 159 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 2: they didn't like you. Okay, yeah, it was that dramatic 160 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,480 Speaker 2: of a difference. Fago thumbs up, pissed thumbs down. How 161 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: do they throw pe? Oh dude, they put a pee 162 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,640 Speaker 2: in a bottle and throw it. Yes, and then just yeah, 163 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 2: it's crazy. I seen a girl get hit with a 164 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 2: bottle of pee at the gathering one time. Her name was, uh, 165 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 2: Tila Tequila. It was Tina Tequila. 166 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: We heard of her. 167 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, I was there when that happened, the famous 168 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 2: gathering incident. 169 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: It was crazy, dude. Well, so if you get a 170 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: hit with a liquid, it takes a second to realize, well, 171 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: either it's beer or pete, and you got to either 172 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: smell it or liquor. Right, it's the only way to 173 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: find out. Elvi was. There's no time to sit into 174 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:16,920 Speaker 1: the last I sit there and go or go oh god, music, 175 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: so glamorous, this glamorous career you've chosen. Let's talk about. 176 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,480 Speaker 1: Let's go back. Let's go back. Where are you from? 177 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: Tell everyone your story and what motivated you, in your opinion, 178 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 1: to get you where you are today. 179 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 2: I would say that I'm from Antiox, Tennessee. My mama 180 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 2: gave me the name Jelly Row when I was a kid. 181 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 1: My name is Jason D. Ford. 182 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 2: I was born in Antioch, which is a little town 183 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 2: right outside of Nashville, you know, twenty thirty minutes on 184 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 2: the house guards of town. And I grew up just 185 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 2: in a house that love music, and all I want 186 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 2: to do was make music. And it see, I never 187 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: had another thing I wanted to do but music, you know, 188 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: and this was this has been my whole life. I 189 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 2: understood purpose of music when I was young. You and 190 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,200 Speaker 2: I spoke about it before, briefly, but like music resonated 191 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 2: in my household different. I watched people deal with drug 192 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 2: addictions by listening to music. I watch people get sober 193 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 2: listening to music. I watched people relapse listen to music. 194 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 2: I had all these I watched people deal with mental 195 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 2: health and trauma and tragedy through music. It was like 196 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 2: we had a house that we didn't talk a lot, 197 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,600 Speaker 2: but we throw on records, you know what I mean. 198 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,280 Speaker 2: So funny, I ended up being a big talker, you know. 199 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 2: But that's what got me into music, and that's been 200 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: my purpose from day one was I call it therapeutic music. 201 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 2: It's real music for real people with real problems. 202 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 1: Say you say the other role that you always wanted 203 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: to be in music? Does that mean as a kid 204 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:39,640 Speaker 1: you were finasizing a beat about becoming a successful millionaire 205 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: doing music or just playing honky talks anywhere USA. What 206 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: did that mean to you then being in music? 207 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, the early dream was just hockey talks, right, because 208 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,640 Speaker 2: I didn't see I didn't know. You know, they say 209 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 2: you believe what you're exposed to, and I'd never seen success, right. 210 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,520 Speaker 2: So it's like I seen dudes play the local bar, 211 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 2: and I was like, Yo, if I can go play 212 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 2: some local bars, I could make some money and not 213 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 2: have to commit nefarious criminal activities, you know what I'm saying. 214 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 2: I was like, so I just wanted to And then 215 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 2: I started seeing scale, and then that's when you start going, 216 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 2: oh man, I'm dreaming too small. This is like this 217 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: thing could be a thing thing, you know what I mean. 218 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 2: But initially the plan was just to you know, I 219 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 2: guess I never even associated money with it, you know 220 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,280 Speaker 2: what I mean. I just associated like these dudes were 221 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 2: doing what they loved for a living. They were touching 222 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 2: people and they wasn't selling drugs and that's what inspired me. 223 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: Jelly Roll, what a great conversation I had with him. 224 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,160 Speaker 1: And I want you to hear the whole podcast Thinking 225 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,199 Speaker 1: out Loud with Elvis Duran that will be out next week. 226 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 1: And here's jelly Roll need a favor