Jelly Roll And Lainey Wilson Discuss Their Friendship

Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson are the "it" artists in country music these days, and the two of them celebrated their success together at a party in Nashville recently. Before the event, we chatted with the country superstars, and Jelly explained how deep his friendship with Wilson goes.

Jelly said after they recorded their duet of his "Save Me" together, his friend was there for him more times than he expected, joining him to sing it on TV, at corporate parties, or even flying to different cities just to join him on stage for a concert moment fans will never forget. He said, "Twenty, thirty times, Lainey's went out of her way to come and do this for me. I could not have asked for a better dance partner."

It started a beautiful friendship. He said, "It seeped over to the family: my daughter loves her, and my wife loves her. I love Duck (her boyfriend, Devlin Hodges), and Duck loves me. I love her parents."

He concluded, "I think that we have a moment that will remembered that way forever. I think they'll be an era where we'll always look back in country music and go, 'That was kind of Jelly and Lainey's year.'"

Lainey agreed, saying, "I knew before I officially met him that he was just my kind of people. What you see is what you get, and I love people like that."

She added of recording "Save Me" with her friend, "I made a promise to myself that any song that I cut that I didn't write, I needed to feel like I wrote it at least. I needed to feel like I had been through it or experienced it in some kind of way, or it was a story that just needed to be told, even if it wasn't mine specifically. This one turned out that it was something that I could relate to one hundred and ninety percent."