Jelly Roll Was At The ‘Cool Table’ At Hollywood GRAMMY Party

Jelly Roll's GRAMMY week in February was one to remember. During a recent interview to celebrate his country chart-topping success in Nashville, Jelly told us about him and his fellow country singers taking center stage at a very Hollywood party.

He said, "The Clive Davis party, I don't know if you know, is the hardest ticket in Los Angeles, California. I never thought I'd be there or playing in it. And they put country m----- f------ together. So the table is me, Lainey Wilson, Luke Combs, and Tyler Childers. We're about as country as collard greens. We're catfish and coleslaw. We're standing out really bad."

Jelly continued, "I'm sitting there, and it wasn't the feeling of, 'Oh, that's the country table,' It was the, 'Oh, that's the cool table.' Everybody stopped by that table dude, and people that have been to all these Clive parties told me traditionally they don't talk to the country artists, they don't know 'em, they don't recognize them. It's always been a real left-field thing."

But that night was different. He said, "The reception we got at the Clive Davis party, for me, was the real breakthrough. And then the next day (GRAMMY day), I walked the red carpet, and everybody was chatting. I was like, 'We f------kind of belong here."

Jelly felt a little alienated the next night at the GRAMMY Awards show, "They put me away from the country people this time. I had Michael Trotter (War And Tready) with me, thank God. But across was Kelsea (Ballerini) and Lainey, the real country music superstars. They had me in the barely in the building category. We were watching them going, 'How's the weather next to Taylor Swift and Oprah.' We were back here next to a security guard that was fixin' to kick us out."

However, after being acknowledged by so many in the crowd, that feeling changed, "I had a real moment of not only do we belong here, and I didn't leave upset that I didn't win; I also didn't think I'd win. I left encouraged that not only are we coming back next year, but we're also gonna have multiple nominations."