"I thought about the 14 year old in that church who now is 39 and has a 14-year-old going to church. Jelly Roll reminisced about how he ended up in jail after his own baptism and then spent 10 years in and out of the system. "That felt kind of purposeful and a little bit hopeful and I wanted to tell a story and I wanted to get romantic about the old days," he said. Thanks to his daughter, Jelly Roll scrapped those songs and went back to work. I don't want to write a bunch of songs to pick out." "I started talking to her about Whitsitt Chapel and then I started listening to these songs and I was just like, man, I want to write an album. "I got baptized in a little church, too," he told Chuck about growing up attending Whitsitt Chapel in Nashville, the church his new album is named after. Even though he said he had nearly 60 songs ready for his next album, something was holding him back from moving forward.īut when he witnessed his daughter, Bailee, get baptized at a small church when she was 14 years old, everything changed for him. ' The only thing that's changed in that is the production."Īfter he finished writing Whitsitt Chapel, he found himself unsettled. "If you think about the top line of my lyrics-Jelly Roll lyrics-the lyrics from 'Son of a Sinner' aren't much different than the lyrics from 'Need a Favor' and they're not much different from the lyrics of 'Dead Man. So I get it back and then it's a vibe."Īs he talked about songwriting and production, Jelly Roll wanted to get deeper with Chuck. I have no problem peacocking and putting my chest out and swinging my buttcheeks around, you know? But you put me into a production room? They start speaking Greek immediately. When i'm going to the writer's room, I know what I'm doing. "When we send it to production land, I immediately take myself out of that. "I write everything from an acoustic guitar," he explained to Chuck, noting that he never approaches a song with a specific sound or genre in mind. When Jelly Roll gets asked about different genres- country music this or rock music that-he doesn't get too hung up on the specifics. The year ended with 16,600 people at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, completely sold out." Writing-and Rewriting- Whitsitt Chapel The beginning of 2022, my first show of the year was at an 800-person club in Buffalo, New York. I could not even describe how this feels. "I mean, it's hard to feel any other way. "I feel on top of the world," Jelly Roll told Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (July 6).
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