Jelly Roll’s CMA award was fantastically damaged, identical to his new album of the identical identify.
The nation music star, 39, instructed Jimmy Fallon Monday evening about how, after turning 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 dwell native broadcast from backstage on the present.
“Oh goodness, Jelly Roll simply broke his award,” WKRN-TV reporter Stephanie Langston might be heard telling one other reporter. “Yeah, he’s nonetheless standing there. I’m fairly positive it’s his award. He simply dropped it on the ground.”
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Jelly Roll holding up his CMA award throughout his acceptance speech final yr, moments earlier than he broke it backstage. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Photos)
“Initially, when it first dropped, you possibly can’ve heard a mouse pee on cotton,” Jelly Roll instructed Fallon. “I imply, it was lifeless silent, and proper after you possibly can’ve heard a cricket fart, you heard a bunch of individuals go ‘Aww.’”
He defined that the load of the award and his sweaty palms doubtless performed a job within the unlucky incident.
“I used to be simply so excited and so nervous that I had the sweatiest, shakiest palms,” he stated. “And that factor is — I’m already not a bodily match man — and that factor’s heavy. That factor was actually heavy.
“And I used to be so excited, and I used to be going to alter it from one hand to the opposite to shake any person’s hand, and it simply boomed,” he stated. “And I used to be like — that is the story of my life although, Jimmy. I lastly get my life collectively. I win the largest award — greatest new artist — I used to be one of many oldest individuals to ever win it. I used to be 39 years previous. I gave a passionate speech, after which I got here backstage and fumbled the ball. Simply fumbled the ball!”
“No, no, be you. By no means cease being you, although,” Fallon replied.
He defined that the load of the award and his sweaty palms doubtless performed a job within the unlucky incident. (WWE/Getty Photos)
Jelly Roll added that he “campaigned” for the awards present to let him maintain the damaged one as an alternative of getting a brand new one.
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“I used to be like, ‘I feel it suits me nice. I’ll simply duct tape it collectively,’” 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 get together in his van.
“It was an evening we performed outdoors of Sacramento, California, in Orangeville, little place known as The Boardwalk,” he defined.
“I pulled up, there was 5 individuals, and I felt so dangerous for the door man, sound man and the concessions man. They had been all the identical particular person. And I felt so dangerous for him that I used to be like, ‘Don’t even open the door.’ And I introduced all 5 individuals in my RV.”
He instructed Fallon to think about a “1975 Cheech and Chong RV.”
Jelly Roll stated falling in love along with his spouse Bunnie XO helped him flip his life round. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media by way of Getty Photos)
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“There was smoke popping out of the hood. There was smoke popping out of the within,” he stated of his previous RV. “It smelled like Willie Nelson and low-cost beer. It was all dangerous, man. I truly simply introduced all 5 onto the crappy RV and we simply partaked in a peaceable pipe collectively. And I simply instructed them I used to be sorry I couldn’t carry out.”
He defined that he canceled the present as a result of he felt dangerous for the one man working the present “as a result of, at that time, we wanted to place two of the 5 people who purchased a ticket to assist 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 stated, “As cliché as it might sound, [the answer] is religion, discovering love. It softened my coronary heart. I fell in love with a lady and received married. I had a daughter. It modified my entire life. She’s 16 now, in order that’s getting attention-grabbing, but it surely’s nonetheless actually good.
“And it simply made me need to be a great father and a greater human. And I knew I used to be only a crappy particular person for thus lengthy, man. I simply destroyed. I used to be only a dangerous human, and now I’m making an attempt to show that round. I’m a completely totally different man, man. It’s superior.”
He additionally talked about how he got here up with the title for his new album and tour, “Fantastically Damaged.”
“I feel that we’re all a little bit damaged, however I feel it’s discovering magnificence in that,” he stated. “And we use kintsugi for the concept they do in Japan that if one thing is price saving when it breaks, that they create it again along with gold and so they polish it. That’s sort of our message, man, is all people’s price saving.”
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“Fantastically Damaged” is out Oct. 11.
