Jelly Roll is not afraid to open about his troubled previous in his music, which helps his followers overcome their very own obstacles. 

Nonetheless, when the rapper-turned-country famous person is feeling down, what artist does he discover refuge in?

Whereas selling the discharge of his new album, Fantastically Damaged, Jelly Roll revealed nation legend Toby Keith‘s music has helped get him by means of darkish occasions in his life.

Particularly, it is the late singer’s tune “Cryin’ For Me” that soothes his soul, and helped him “grieve” the lack of his father Buddy, who handed away in 2019 from most cancers.

“Toby Keith’s ‘I’m gonna miss that smile, I’m gonna miss you my buddy.’ It acquired me by means of the demise of my father. I listened to that music on a regular basis. So I understand how music can do this,” he mentioned on the Jay Shetty Podcast.

The CMA Entertainer of the 12 months nominee can also be honoring his dad by naming part of his new enterprise after him within the soon-to-be bar, Jelly Roll’s Goodnight Nashville.

Jelly Roll additionally saved it actual on how he feels about his music getting used to assist others overcome obstacles of their life.

“We go to prisons on a regular basis and play and we go to homeless shelters, however you catch any individual throughout these first 10 days, trigger I do know what these 10 days are. To know that’s the music [‘Save Me’] that’s getting individuals by means of that exact stretch…,” he instructed host Jay Shetty.

“It’s like once they instructed me ‘Save Me’ is changing into the brand new ‘Free Chook’ of the south for funeral houses. They are saying they get extra requests for ‘Save Me’ now, and that used to essentially bum me out and make me unhappy. However then I began fascinated about how a lot that’s serving to individuals grieve,” Jelly Roll added.

“Free Chook” is the 1973 smash hit by legendary rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Jelly Roll’s new album, Stunning Damaged, options the only “I Am Not Okay,” plus beforehand launched songs “Successful Streak,” “Liar” and “Get By.”

He recruited many artists from totally different genres on the brand new album, together with Machine Gun Kelly, Ilsey and Wiz Khalifa.

In 2023, he launched his nation debut Whitsitt Chapel, that includes songs with Brantley Gilbert, Yelawolf and Lainey Wilson.