Jelly Roll’s CMA award was fantastically damaged, similar to his new album of the identical title.
The nation music star, 39, instructed Jimmy Fallon Monday evening about how, after turning into one of many oldest folks 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 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.”
“Initially, when it first dropped, you would’ve heard a mouse pee on cotton,” Jelly Roll instructed Fallon. “I imply, it was useless silent, and proper after you would’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 possible 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 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 used to be so excited, and I used to be going to alter it from one hand to the opposite to shake someone’s hand, and it simply boomed,” he mentioned. “And I used to be like — that is the story of my life although, Jimmy. I lastly get my life collectively. I win the most important award — finest new artist — I used to be one of many oldest folks to ever win it. I used to be 39 years outdated. 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.
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.
“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 folks confirmed up for, main him to ask all of the attendees to social gathering 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 folks, and I felt so dangerous for the door man, sound man and the concessions man. They have 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 folks in my RV.”
He instructed Fallon to think about a “1975 Cheech and Chong RV.”
“There was smoke popping out of the hood. There was smoke popping out of the within,” he mentioned of his outdated 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 would have liked to place two of the 5 those that 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 mentioned, “As cliché as it could sound, [the answer] is religion, discovering love. It softened my coronary heart. I fell in love with a girl and obtained married. I had a daughter. It modified my complete life. She’s 16 now, in order that’s getting fascinating, nevertheless it’s nonetheless actually good.
“And it simply made me need to be father and a greater human. And I knew I used to be only a crappy particular person for thus lengthy, man. I [am] simply destroyed. I used to be only a dangerous human, and now I’m making an attempt to show that round. I’m a very 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 bit of damaged, however I feel it’s discovering magnificence in that,” he mentioned. “And we use kintsugi for the concept that they do in Japan that if one thing is price saving when it breaks, that they carry it again along with gold they usually polish it. That’s form of our message, man, is everyone’s price saving.”
“Fantastically Damaged” is out Oct. 11.
