Jelly Roll’s CMA award was superbly damaged, identical to his new album of the identical title.
The nation music star, 39, instructed Jimmy Fallon Monday evening about how, after changing into one of many oldest individuals to ever win new artist of the yr on the awards present in Nashville final yr, he instantly “fumbled” the glass award.
Fallon then performed a clip of the sound of shattering glass throughout a reside native broadcast from backstage on the present.
“Oh goodness, Jelly Roll just broke his award,” WKRN-TV reporter Stephanie Langston may be heard telling one other reporter. “Yeah, he’s still standing there. I’m pretty sure it’s his award. He just dropped it on the floor.”
“First of all, when it first dropped, you could’ve heard a mouse pee on cotton,” Jelly Roll instructed Fallon. “I mean, it was dead silent, and right after you could’ve heard a cricket fart, you heard a bunch of people go ‘Aww.’”
He defined that the burden of the award and his sweaty palms seemingly performed a job within the unlucky incident.
“I was just so excited and so nervous that I had the sweatiest, shakiest palms,” he mentioned. “And that factor is — I’m already not a bodily match man — and that factor’s heavy. That factor was actually heavy.
“And I was so excited, and I was going to change it from one hand to the other to shake somebody’s hand, and it just boomed,” he mentioned. “And I was like — this is the story of my life though, Jimmy. I finally get my life together. I win the biggest award — best new artist — I was one of the oldest people to ever win it. I was 39 years old. I gave a passionate speech, and then I came backstage and fumbled the ball. Just fumbled the ball!”
“No, no, be you. Never stop being you, though,” Fallon replied.
Jelly Roll added that he “campaigned” for the awards present to let him preserve the damaged one as a substitute of getting a brand new one.
“I was like, ‘I think it fits me great. I’ll just duct tape it together,’” he instructed Fallon.
The shattered award reportedly was only a generic one although.
A CMA official instructed The Tennessean final yr the award hadn’t been engraved but as a result of the winners weren’t identified beforehand.
Jelly Roll additionally described a live performance throughout his struggling artist days that solely 5 individuals confirmed up for, main him to ask all of the attendees to social gathering in his van.
“It was a night we played outside of Sacramento, California, in Orangeville, little place called The Boardwalk,” he defined.
“I pulled up, there was five people, and I felt so bad for the door guy, sound guy and the concessions guy. They were all the same person. And I felt so bad for him that I was like, ‘Don’t even open the door.’ And I brought all five people in my RV.”
He instructed Fallon to think about a “1975 Cheech and Chong RV.”
“There was smoke coming out of the hood. There was smoke coming out of the inside,” he mentioned of his previous RV. “It smelled like Willie Nelson and cheap beer. It was all bad, man. I actually just brought all five onto the crappy RV and we just partaked in a peaceful pipe together. And I just told them I was sorry I couldn’t perform.”
He defined that he canceled the present as a result of he felt unhealthy for the one man working the present “because, at that point, we needed to put two of the five people that bought a ticket to help him. He was doing three jobs.”
Telling Fallon how he circled his life after dozens of arrests in his teenagers and 20s, the 39-year-old mentioned, “As cliché as it could sound, [the answer] is religion, discovering love. It softened my coronary heart. I fell in love with a lady and acquired married. I had a daughter. It modified my entire life. She’s 16 now, in order that’s getting fascinating, but it surely’s nonetheless actually good.
“And it just made me want to be a good father and a better human. And I knew I was just a crappy person for so long, man. I [am] just destroyed. I was just a bad human, and now I’m trying to turn that around. I’m a totally different guy, man. It’s awesome.”
He additionally talked about how he got here up with the title for his new album and tour, “Beautifully Broken.”
“I think that we’re all a little broken, but I think it’s finding beauty in that,” he mentioned. “And we use kintsugi for the idea that they do in Japan that if something is worth saving when it breaks, that they bring it back together with gold and they polish it. That’s kind of our message, man, is everybody’s worth saving.”
“Beautifully Broken” is out Oct. 11.
