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Jelly Roll has The BEST YEAR EVER!!!! · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  It's cool because the last time I talked to this guy was gosh, almost
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  a week ago to the day, and he was just just a guy with
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  a few number one songs taking over the world. Since then, we are
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  talking to the CMA Best New Artists, New Artists of the Year, and
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  not only that Grammy nomination. Yes, yes, baby, the Grammy nominated
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  dog. That's the crazy part that to me is like, you know,
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  man, it's just it's happened within thirty six hours of winning the CMA New
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  Artist of the Year award, right after my first extremely like genuinely viral moment,
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  you know what I mean. It's just crazy, man, just unreal.
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  Uh, take me through what that nomination means to you, because we
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  have seen this literally, like, who's this jelly Roll? Yeah, I'd
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  love to check him out to now. I mean, it feels like you're
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  at the top of the musical world. I can't even paint you in the
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  genre because you're, like we said, you're all over the place. So
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  what does this Grammy nomination mean to you? On top of everything you've witnessed
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  of yourself over the last couple of years. You know, man, there's
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  I was talking to somebody about this. My wife, actually, she didn't
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  fully get it. She was like, you know, I know the Grammys
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  are a big deal. She's like, but why does it mean so much
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  to an artist? And I was like, the moment you become a Grammy
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  nominee or an award, a Grammy Award winner, but even a nominee,
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  that is now the biggest title you can have, Like you know, like
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  when you're a prince. One day you can be a king, and once
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  you're a king, there's no bigger title. They just call you king such
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  and such like right now, it's like, this is the three time CMT
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  Award winner, New Artists of the Year, CMA Award winning, But the
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  moment you become Grammy nominated, every time somebody introduces me, from now on,
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  we'll go this is the Grammy nominated artist Recording artist Jelly row. I
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  thought about how big Taylor Swift is, right, she's the new Michael Jackson.
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  And they put a picture of her up that first Chief game that she
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  was at and it said the twenty time Grammy Award winning Taylor Swift or twenty
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  time Grammy Award winner or however many times she's won a Grammy and to me,
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  that just shows you the power of what that means to have your name
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  associated with the Grammys. Has it set in? Have you let it set
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  in yet? Denominations? Yeah? Man, I mean, dude, just
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  you know, it's unreal. I haven't. I'm nervous, like it's such
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  a big thing. You're just like, what can go wrong between now and
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  then? Like the little negative pirate on my shoulders, just like immediately gat
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  me in my feelings about what this is. You know, take me back
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  to CMA night. I feel like you're a guy even though, let me
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  tell you, ninety five percent of that room picked you. Not that other
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  people didn't deserve it, but you are talented and you're a hell of a
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  guy. You care about everybody you come in contact with. That type of
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  stuff matters, right, So when it came to that moment when you gave
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  your speech, obviously crazy viral. I mean I see people quoting it.
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  It's got to be one of the most quoted speeches in the history of the
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  CMA Awards because literally you log into Instagram, especially the windshield did the rearview
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  thing, which I've heard you say in interviews before. It's unreal. Man,
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  was any of that planned or were you able just to go? I
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  just went no. I didn't think I was gonna win. I thought Zach
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  Bryan or Parker McCullum had it, especially with the year Zach Bryan's had,
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  yep, and uh, Parker's my buddy, so all pun nintended when I
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  say he's had a hell of a year or two, you know what I
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  mean, hell of a year. So it's like for me, I just
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  I didn't think i'd win. So when they called my name, I was
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  walking up there and I was like, I mean, I'll never forget it.
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  I was looking at that screen and there's inside Baseball, y'all know this.
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  But I look up at the screen in front of me and it goes
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  fifty nine, fifty eight, fifty seven, and I'm like, I gotta
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  say something, like I got sixty seconds here to really say something, and
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  I need to say it. But it connected. It did. Man,
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  it was unreal. I could not have expected me to come out of that
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  Awards show with so many viral storylines. I think they somebody told me we
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  had a company do the analytic impressions on it, like where they can see
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  every retweet. How many it got and every repost and like, like into
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  the nerd stuff that like eighty million views or something like they think one in
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  every three adults in America this week. You could be like, hey,
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  have you heard of a jelly roll Grather. They'd be like, I've just
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  seen that speech of his. You know what I mean? Yeah? You.
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  And it's funny because even my grandma was like that jelly roll fella is
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  a friend of yours. He won a big award. I was like,
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  yeah, Grandma, jelly rolls of man. Uh, take me through through
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  the rest of the year for you now, because obviously we're about to talk
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  about another big song for you with Laney that is on its way to doing
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  some big things. But what do you have the rest of the year?
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  Man? You know, I still got a bunch of shows. I'm still
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  doing shug. I'm flying out of here tonight to do a show in San
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  Antonio right after I get off stayed in San Antonio, I'll fla straight to
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  La so I will have hit Nashville, Texas and California before I go to
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  sleep. And I'll do a show in Arizona on Wednesday and then make my
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  way back home and then be home for Thanksgiving. We're just working, dude.
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  It's it's non stop with us. We're on the constant go. Knowing
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  how amazing twenty twenty three has been for you, is any part of you
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  obviously you talk, You've been vocal about I got unplugged. You boys got
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  unplugged for a little while. Uh are you already trying to manage your schedule
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  in twenty four? Yeah? To do And I'm going to say to do
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  less, but I don't mean that in like a disrespect, you know what
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  I mean, but like to make sure you're managing your schedule because you hit
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  red hot so fast you really couldn't. Yeah. Yeah, I've got to
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  take some time for myself. Man, I gotta start saying no, especially
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  spend more time with my family. And I'm looking at it in twenty twenty
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  four and I'm gonna unplug from the phone here right in the middle of December
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  and kind of got a month off before I got to really get back into
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  it again, So it'd be good. That month will do me a lot
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  of good. Another moment that went viral and it has since been corrected,
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  but dropping the CMA Award, Oh dude, the thing that people that.
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  First of all, what was your immediate reaction? I was like, man,
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  it was crazy, dude. Listen when I dropped that award. You
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  could hear it was in the media room, so everybody's out running around,
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  and then I dropped the award and you could have heard a fly fall,
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  you know what I mean. I was just instantly like, whoa, you
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  know what I mean? Just crazy. But what but people don't understand is
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  it didn't even have your name on it. It technically wasn't your award,
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  right, it's a stand in. Yeah. It was like, yeah,
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  I didn't know that. Though I didn't know anything. I just knew they
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  handed me one. So I was like, oh god, I get my
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  award. Tonighters I gotta expect this. I didn't see if they had my
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  name or nothing. But I was just like, that's cool. I got
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  an award and I was handing it to everybody anyways because you've got one.
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  But they're way heavier than they look like they are. Absolutely they're crazy heavy.
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  So I was like, man, this is I want people to feel.
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  It's like it's name Gurvy and h. Then I dropped it and I
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  was like, I cannot believe I blew this, dude. I cannot believe.
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  How would I of all people, you know, why me? You
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  know what I'm saying, Why could it have been Luke Comb's You know,
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  there's so many other people back here that would have been way smoother. They
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  would have dropped it. Uh. In that moment you were talking about the
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  post show, there's like a big press. I don't know what they call
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  those, but like just it's a bunch of people in one room and on
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  on on one of the biggest moments of your career so far and maybe your
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  life. You're just accepted this award, but still on that stage, you
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  gave credit to Laney Wilson. You know, you're talking about where your song
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  is on the chart right now with the Entertainer of the Year Landy Wilson.
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  Knowing that this year has brought you and Laney closer, especially with working together
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  on the single. What did it mean for you to see her outshine?
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  I mean not that she didn't deserve it, but I mean she beat out
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  some pretty massive names that have done some pretty big things over the lessons.
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  Did I read that she was the first woman to get it in a decade.
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  I would believe it. I don't know for such just man, what
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  does that say about women's country music and where it's at right now and Laney
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  being at the forefront of that, you know what I mean? I think
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  that it's really cool what's happening. And Laney, Man, this is how
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  I describe this business to people. I am willing to work the hours and
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  do the stuff that most people in this town are not willing to do.
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  Right. Yeah, Laney's willing to do what I won't do, you know
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  what I mean, like the stuff, and I'm like, no way,
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  I'm waking up and doing that. Laney's like I'm in you know, I
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  mean, nobody works harder than her. I thought I was bragging, but
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  I was like, Laney, dude, I only spent seventy days home last
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  year, which I've only spent forty days home this year. And she goes
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  she looks at me and goes, ooh, you had it good. I
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  was like what she was like sixteen sixteen nights she slept in her own bed
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  last year in twenty twenty two, you know what I mean? Like,
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  people do not understand the work ethic that Lanney has. Man, she is
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  one of the hardest working people I've ever seen in my entire life. So
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  to see her get publicly rewarded for that and her positivity, like her message
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  is just so pure and so genuine, you know what I mean. Like,
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  it's just you know, just peace. It's he'll billy stuff. It's
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  hill billy hippi shit, it's love everybody, everybody be loved kind of stuff.
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  Come one, come all, except all. It's just it's a great
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  look for country music that Laney Wilson's on top of the game. Knowing the
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  night that you just had, followed by the Grammy news, knowing the night
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  that Laney just had. How much more special? Now is it for this
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  song to go number one? For you? And save me? Dude?
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  It's man. First of all, this song has so many layers of a
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  story that make it special. Bubba. I wrote this with a guy I've
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  known since high school. Neither one of us were published writers. We were
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  just two dudes in a studio with a guitar and wrote this song. So
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  for us to have this moment, it's crazy. Moving forward. The next
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  level is when we had to go and list somebody to produce it. I
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  called Zach Krowell, a dude that I bought a beat from in eighteen years
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  ago for seventy bucks or fifty bucks or something, you know what I mean.
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  Who's now been a part of thirty number ones. So it's like the
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  layers of this and then Laney and her year and then my year, and
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  the song is nominated for a Grammy. The hands of history will never be
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  able to take that back, you know what I mean. If everything goes
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  belly up for me in the next five years and I never win another award
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  or get nominated, and I you know what I mean, everybody just turns
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  cold on jelly roll. They'll never take away from me that I was nominated
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  for a Grammy in twenty twenty three. You know, it's crazy, that's
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  how much this means to me. This is it when it comes to twenty
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  twenty four. Are you a guy that's in competition with yourself regularly? Like
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  I just put this out so like withitsitt Chapel, right, great album?
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  Do you have to outdo yourself on the next one? Yeah, because I'm
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  the only person I'm competing against. I'm not out here fighting against anybody else,
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  you know what I mean. I'm not out here chasing against anybody else
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  or I'm just one hundred percent out here going to You know, I'm trying
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  to be a better version of myself. I'm trying to beat the old jelly
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  roll bub I'm trying to put out a better song and save me. That's
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  what I'm writing against when I'm in the room. I'm not trying to write
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  a song better than another artist. So with that, I have a second
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  part of that question, but I want to ask first with save me.
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  Once it is run and it's run its course, which is the type of
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  song the list forever? Right? Do you know what's next? Are you
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  going to focus on a new project after that? Oh? As far as
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  like radio singles go, and how do I like to share the Yeah,
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  no, well I don't know. I'm talking to the label because I'm gonna
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  let them do whatever they want to do because I trust them. I love
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  Halfway to Hell. I know it's a little unconditioned, untraditional for country radio,
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  but so is every song Jether Roles ever had on country radio. So
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  I love Halfway to Hell. I love the tempo and I love the energy
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  of it. So I kind of hope that's my next single. I know
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  what goes up live incredibly, Like when you see Halfway to Hell live,
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  it goes. Let me ask you this. Then the second part of that,
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  the question about outdoing yourself. Do you know where you're going with a
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  new album yet? Are you letting this breathe? Like? Oh no,
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  No, I've been writing, dude. I'm probably forty fifty songs in Man,
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  this new album. I'm gonna put out a lot of music in twenty
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  three, four, twenty four, twenty four. I'm put out a lot
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  of music in twenty four. Yeah, it's all blending together now. I
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  look to tell you. I'm like, tell, where are we so being
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  in competition with yourself? How do you outdo yourself? In twenty four?
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  I just want to write better songs, man, It's like anything else,
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  dude. I mean the more I write, the better I get. I'm
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  understanding it more. That's the music side, but more important, I want
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  to spend more time with my daughter in twenty four, it's the other.
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  I gotta be a better father next year. I was very absent this year,
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  so I got to learn how to balance this thing a little better.
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  Does she understand that? I mean she's older, she's fifteen, but they
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  understand, but don't understand. They understand better when they're seven because they don't
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  understand. Yeah, but when they do understand and they understand that, you
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  know, there ain't no excuse, you know what I mean. And obviously,
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  the last thing I want to ask you, coming off of what was
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  a massive year for you and even building up to going into twenty twenty three,
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  have you been able to make just a ridiculous purchase like you have this
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  adult money now that maybe because let me tell you something might I'll be straight
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  up. My adult money is something I couldn't have when I was a kid.
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  I bought wrestling championship belts. That's awesome. I got the video games.
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  Like I am with adult money, I am not the guy to role
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  model nobody. So what are purchases you've been able to buy that You're like,
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  this is ridiculous, but I can do it. Someth'm gonna my adult
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  money. Sneakers? I bought a bunch of sneakers. Why you always send
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  me with a different pair of sneakers on when I'm on carpets and stuff?
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  But did y'all see the clip of me and my wife pulling up in that
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  Lincoln with the kissing doorts mine. Oh really yeah? The doors before awards
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  season. Yeah, no, I had it made for the awards because last
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  year I pulled up in that red Cadillac, which is mine. So I
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  was like, man, I want to do a Lincoln next year, sixty
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  four. I'm not gonna get one for next year though, y'all can't afford
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  a new car every Cmas. But but that's that's uh. That was probably
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  my real crazy, Like you know, like when you got enough money to
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  just go buy an old school car you'll drive five times a year. It's
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  getting ridiculous, dude, I know you're I can't tell you how we've We
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  will never forget the first time they brought you in and they're like, oh
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  we got this jelly row. God, dude, the world is sat Nate
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  lunch in front of y'all spot right there at all there. That was great.
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  You couldn't do it now without getting bothered. I'll tell you that crazy
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  living a good life will probably love you, brother man