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Jelly Roll Says ACM Win With Lainey Wilson Was Meant to Be: ‘What a Great Year for Me to Have a Song With Her!’

Jelly Roll tells Billboard that his first ACM Award win on Thursday (May 16) came at the perfect time for him and collaborator Lainey Wilson.

The “Son of a Sinner” singer added another notch to his gilded belt on Thursday night (May 16) at the 2024 ACM Awards when he shared the music event of the year prize with Lainey Wilson at the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, Texas. While Jelly Roll has been at the game for a while before his big blowup began taking hold over the last 24 months, he said he and pal Wilson talk all the time about the wild rocket ride of fame they’ve both been on lately and love to share notes and advice. “There’s a picture that exists on the Earth of me meeting Sir Paul McCartney and Jon Bon Jovi at the same time… that was the one that was like, ‘get out of here man!,'” he joked about the pic he keeps sending around to friends and swearing is not a PhotoShop job.

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