{"id":39881,"date":"2024-07-03T04:05:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=39881"},"modified":"2024-07-03T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:05:46","slug":"what-jelly-roll-said-to-cellmates-as-he-left-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/what-jelly-roll-said-to-cellmates-as-he-left-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jelly Roll Said To Cellmates As He Left Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jelly Roll&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0life-story is wild.\u00a0 He recently sat down for an interview\u00a0and told some amazing stories.<\/p>\n<p>In jail, when Jelly wanted to write music, he would start by beating on the steel bed bunk.\u00a0 He said, &#8220;It had a real hollow sound, so you could at least keep your time that way . . . and then you kinda start humming melodies over that loop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that the hardest part was when, quote, &#8220;you write so many of them, that you start to forget the melodies.\u00a0 I ended up coming home with a bunch of songs that I couldn&#8217;t remember the melodies to, but I had really good lyrics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he seemed to know he was destined for greatness anyway.\u00a0 Because on his way out of jail for the last time, he said, &#8220;<em>I got my little knapsack of songs, because I wrote &#8217;em all on paper, and I&#8217;m knocking on people&#8217;s cell . . . If I ever see you again, I&#8217;ll be at Madison Square Garden.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For reference, he was last in jail in 2008.\u00a0 And, he will be headlining Madison Square Garden this year on September 27th. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whiskeyriff.com\/2024\/06\/21\/jelly-roll-walked-out-of-jail-for-the-last-time-telling-fellow-inmates-if-i-ever-see-you-again-ill-be-at-madison-square-garden\/\"><strong>Whiskey Riff<\/strong><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Jelly made music in jail ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 18:24:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/07\/what-jelly-roll-said-to-cellmates-as-he-left-jail\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39883,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39881\/revisions\/39883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}