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Known for blurring the lines between rap, country, and rock, Jelly Roll, 40, stripped things back on “Save Me,” his 2020 hit song that offers fans a haunting ballad about addiction, pain, and redemption.

When he was only 14, the Tennessee-born singer – whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord – was “dabbling in marijuana and trouble,” leading him to federal prison where over the next decade, he served several sentences for charges including felonies. He was even incarcerated when his daughter Bailee was born in 2008, according to Grammy News.

“Early on in my songwriting I chose connection and honesty,” Jelly Roll told Billboard of his heartfelt lyrics that share his journey of redemption. “I didn’t feel that it had to be songs that only seemed like everything was fine, especially when the songs that helped me…were songs that you felt