For Jelly Roll, shopping for his personal album at Walmart has grow to be one thing of a practice.

He did it final summer time after dropping Whitsitt Chapel. Now that his new album Fantastically Damaged is right here, the singer needed to cease by a neighborhood Walmart and decide a replica up earlier than a tour cease in Wichita, Kan.

Jelly’s journeys to Walmart to purchase his music date again no less than three years, and the primary time round, his vinyl wasn’t even stocked on the cabinets. This time round, he is come a good distance: Not solely did he get to select up a replica of Fantastically Damaged on vinyl, however he bought the final CDs of the album accessible within the retailer.

Nonetheless, some issues by no means change. On that journey to Walmart three album releases in the past, the workers within the retailer did not acknowledge him. Throughout his current cease, an worker named Orlando helped him discover what he was in search of — however nonetheless had no clue who he was.

“What’s your favourite document that got here out just lately? Fan of nation music?” Jelly requested the worker. “I do not hearken to it a lot,” Orlando replied.

Although Orlando apparently wasn’t a rustic fan, he was nonetheless “essentially the most useful,” Jelly proclaimed, and thanked him with a handshake as he stated it was the “finest day ever.”

Nonetheless, Jelly did not go unrecognized within the retailer. Followers stopped to say hello or take pictures of him as he made his approach to the counter along with his purchases, which additionally seem to incorporate a replica of Publish Malone‘s F-1 Trillion album on vinyl. Jelly’s a Posty fan, and he is additionally acquired a characteristic on that undertaking.

Jelly is presently within the residence stretch of his Fantastically Damaged Tour, which is able to wrap up in Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 27. Subsequent up, the 2024 CMA Awards: He is nominated in a number of classes, together with Entertainer of the Yr, on the late-November present.