Jelly Roll’s CMA award was smashed beautifully, just like their new album of the same name.
The 39-year-old country music star, after becoming one of the oldest people ever to die, told Jimmy Fallon on Monday night how win new artist of the year At last year’s awards ceremony in Nashville, he promptly “misplaced” the Glass award.
Fallon played a clip of the sound of glass breaking from backstage at the show during a live local broadcast.
“Oh my God, Jelly Roll broke his award,” WKRN-TV reporter Stephanie Langston. another reporter can be heard saying. “Yeah, it’s still standing there. I’m pretty sure it’s his prize. He dropped it on the floor.”
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Jelly Roll holding his CMA award during his acceptance speech last year, moments before breaking it backstage. (Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)
“At first, when it first dropped, you could hear rat pee on the cotton,” Jelly Roll told Fallon. “I mean, it was absolutely quiet, and immediately after hearing the cricket fart, you heard a bunch of people say ‘oh’.”
He explained that the weight of the prize and his sweaty palms probably played a role in the unfortunate incident.
“I was just so excited and very nervous “My palms were the sweatiest and most trembling,” she said. “And that’s the thing – I’m already not a physically healthy person – and that’s heavy.” That thing was really heavy.
“And I was so excited, and I was going to shake someone’s hand and change it from one hand to the other, and it just move forward quickly,” he said. “And I was like – this is the story of my life, though, Jimmy. I finally got my life. I won the biggest award – Best New Artist – I was one of the oldest people to win it. I was 39 years old. I gave a rousing speech and then I came backstage and tossed the ball. Just touch the ball!”
“No, no, you stay. However, never stop being you,” Fallon replied.
He explained that the weight of the prize and his sweaty palms probably played a role in the unfortunate incident. (WWE/Getty Images)
Jelly Roll said they “campaigned” for the awards show to let them keep the broken one instead of getting a new one.
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“I was like, ‘I think this looks great on me. I’ll just duct tape it together,'” he told Fallon.
However the prize scattered was reportedly just a general prize.
A CMA official told The Tennessean last year that the awards had not yet been announced because the winners were not known in advance.
Jelly Roll also described a concert during his struggling artist days where only five people came, which led him to invite all the attendees to party in his van.
“It was the night we played in Orangeville, outside of Sacramento, California, at a little place called The Boardwalk,” he said.
“I pulled up, there were five people there, and I felt so bad for the door guy, the sound guy, and the concession guy. They were all the same person. And I felt so bad for him that I said, ‘Don’t Do ‘open the door too.’ And I brought all five people into my RV.”
He asked Fallon to imagine a “1975 Cheech and Chong RV”.
Jelly Roll said that falling in love with his wife, Bunny XO, helped him turn his life around. (Christopher Polk/Penske Media via Getty Images)
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“There was smoke coming out of the hood. There was smoke coming out of the inside,” he said of his old RV. “It smelled of Willie Nelson and cheap beer. It was all very bad, man. I actually brought all five of us over to the dirty RV and we partied in peaceful pipe together. And I told them I was sorry That I couldn’t perform.”
He explained that he canceled the show because he felt bad for the one person working the show “because, at the time, we had to hire two of the five people buying tickets to help him. He was working three jobs. “
Fallon tells how she changed her life after dozens of arrests In his teens and 20s, the 39-year-old said, “No matter how cliché it sounds, (the answer) is faith, finding love. It softened my heart. I fell in love with a woman and I got married. I did have a daughter. It changed my whole life, she’s 16 now, so it’s been interesting, but it’s still really cool.
“And it inspired me to be a better father and a better man. And I knew I was just a lousy human being for so long, man. I was just destroyed. I was just a lousy human being, and now I’m trying to turn it around, I’m a completely different man, it’s amazing.”
He also talked about how he came up with the title of his new album and tour, “Beautifully Broken”.
“I think we’re all a little broken, but I think there’s beauty to be found in it,” he said. “And we use kintsugi to this idea that they do in Japan that if something is worth saving when it’s broken, they bring it back with gold and they polish it. That’s our message, man, Everyone is worth saving.”
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“Beautifully Broken” will be released on October 11.
