Needed some help from above to get through that one. You’ve gotta think that it takes a lot to make Jelly Roll nervous. From growing up in Antioch, Tennessee, which is one of the rougher areas of Nashville, where he would then go on to serve time behind bars for selling drugs and armed robbery, the rapper-turned-country star has no doubt found himself in some pretty rough places over the years. But it was one concert in particular, apparently, that had him a little nervous before taking the stage – and started a new pre-show ritual. Like many artists, Jelly Roll gathers his band and crew for a pre-show prayer before taking the stage. And like everything that he does, Jelly puts his whole heart and soul into the invocation: @jakefm933 Theres only one @Jelly Roll #prayer #jellyroll #countrymusic ♬ original sound – JakeFM As it turns out though, Jelly Roll didn’t start praying before his shows until he got to one particularly sketchy venue and realized that he and his band could use some help staying safe. The country music superstar recently joined Miles Adcox for an episode of his Human School Podcast, where he discussed the origin story of his pre-show invocation: “We were playing in really rough bars early. Like sketchy, alleyway, trailers. I mean we played every kind of like – the amount of times I was in scary situations… We played a bar one night, I’m not making this up, with the old school chicken wire. I think we were like Chillicothe, Ohio or something, one of them little towns somewhere in the midwest, might even been somewhere in Kentucky. And I just remember going, ‘Oh no, this is real.’ I talked to the manager and I’m like, ‘What’s that there for?’ He said, ‘Oh they’re going to throw stuff at you tonight. They throw stuff at everybody.’…  I was like, ‘God, this is crazy.’ And that was the night that I was like, ‘Boys, we should probably pray before this one.’ You know what I’m saying?” Jelly Roll jokes that he “only talks to God when he needs a favor,” and says that they had already played in some rough places and been in some late night bar fights along the way, but it was fearing for his safety that made him finally decide to gather his band and pray before a show: “I prayed that night, and we all circled. I just remember it was the most awkward prayer ever. We didn’t know how to pray, really. And I prayed in jail, but never out loud, you know what I’m saying? I remember it just being like a, ‘God, just protect us in here.'”  Well whatever he said, it worked: “We went in there, we didn’t get nothing thrown at us. And I swear when I came off – we were like a bunch of degenerates, that were like we were all drunk and on cocaine – and they were like, ‘It worked man, the prayer, we gotta pray.'” And not long after that, they had another show playing the annual Gathering of the Juggalos, founded by Insane Clown Posse, where the crowd is known for throwing a particular brand of soda called Faygo at the performers (as Jelly Roll points out, it’s a sign of love). In fact, Jelly recalls the band who performed ahead of them getting bottle rockets shot at them as they performed. But after praying once again before taking the stage, they ended up being the only group who took the stage that didn’t get lit up by the crowd. Hard to say that prayer doesn’t work when it can even protect you from the Juggalos. Jelly reveals that his pre-show prayer has changed over the years. As he noticed fights in his crowd, he would then start praying for the safety of his fans first. And when he had a fan tragically pass away in a DUI accident on the way home from a show, he started including that too – along with other tragic situations that they’ve had to deal with along the way. I know that, especially for those who don’t believe in the power of prayer, it might be easy to dismiss his story or say that it was just a coincidence that they didn’t get things thrown at them. But for those of us who do believe in God and prayer, maybe it was just God’s way of showing Jelly Roll, in a tangible way, that prayer really does work. The post Jelly Roll Started Praying With His Band Before His Shows When They Played A Bar With Chicken Wire Around The Stage first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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