Jelly Roll resisted the changes being suggested in large part because "I'd already built such a big independent thing," he says. Jon Loba, president of Nashville's Broken Bow label, was impressed the first time he heard Jelly Roll's music. "I knew that night that that was gonna be home for me," Jelly Roll says now of the Opry. Jelly Roll's tour stopped in Atlanta a couple of months ago the night after Pluma had played the same amphitheater. For all its grit, there's a craftiness to Jelly Roll's music that reflects his years of experience in rap.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 05, 2023 03:02 UTC