On the same week that Jelly Roll won New Artist of the Year from the CMA Awards, he learned that he's been nominated for the prestigious, all-genre Grammy Award for Best New Artist. It's one of the Recording Academy's Big Four categories, along with Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year.
Jelly Roll responded to Friday's (Nov. 10) news on social media with an emotional and candid video.
"I'm not sure if I'll post this or not because I'm so emotional, but the greatest honor an artist can ever hear is that they've been nominated for a Grammy," he said. "And I got to hear that this morning. I haven't cried like this since my daddy died. I tried to make this video seven times, y'all."
In the caption, Jelly Roll admitted that he was hesitant to share the video.
"I'm embarrassed to post this but my wife says honesty and rawness got me this far ... I'll post a more complete thought about this when I get my head together," he wrote. "I just never would've imagined."
Another act that performed Wednesday (Nov. 8) on the CMA Awards broadcast, The War and Treaty picked up a Best New Artist nomination, as did Gracie Abrams, Fred Again, Ice Spice, Coco Jones, Noah Kahan and Victoria Monét.
Best New Artist has been awarded since 1960, with The Beatles winning in 1965. A handful of country artists have taken home the trophy: Bobbie Gentry (1967), LeAnn Rimes (1997), Carrie Underwood (2007) and the Zac Brown Band (2010). Other winners of note include Tracy Chapman (1989), whos's now intertwined with country lore because of Luke Combs, and Hootie and the Blowfish (1996), a band fronted by future Nashville star Darius Rucker. Rimes won at age 14, making her the youngest Best New Artist honoree in the award's history.
