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Jelly Roll celebrates ‘Night Before’ the NFL draft at Fillmore Detroit
Jelly Roll, the big character with the arena-sized draw, scaled things down Wednesday for a relatively intimate show in the city he affectionately called his “second home.”
The breakout country-rock-rap star hit the Fillmore Detroit to serve up a 1-hour, 15-minute set of familiar tunes — and one brand-new song — for a capacity crowd of 3,000.
Billed as “The Night Before,” the WYCD-sponsored show wasn’t officially affiliated with the NFL Draft, which will run Thursday-Saturday just down Woodward Avenue from the Fillmore. But in a downtown corridor already buzzing ahead of the big event, Jelly Roll’s visit certainly fit the festive mood.
Coming just eight months after a sellout show at Pine Knob Music Theatre, the Fillmore was the Tennessee native’s most intimate Detroit concert since his gigs years ago at spots such as Harpo’s and the Shelter — venues he shouted out Wednesday while vowing his next one in the city will be at Little Caesars Arena.
Jelly Roll, in typical chatty and high-spirited form, loaded his 18-song set with material from “Ballads of the Broken” and “Whitsitt Chapel,” the albums that propelled him onto the national radar after years in the musical trenches, making him the toast of awards shows and gushing cover stories.
Much of that appeal comes from his rags-to-redemption personal story — from teen battles with drugs and prison to life as a cleaned-up redneck hero with an often-penetrating lyrical touch.
He was introduced onstage Wednesday by quasi-Detroiter Flavor Flav, who led the crowd in a singalong of Jelly Roll’s “Save Me,” the same song that would later close the show.
Bunnie XO, his wife and a frequent fixture at his shows, was on the West Coast taping her Dumb Blonde podcast, Jelly Roll alerted the crowd. But for “Kill a Man,” on which Bunnie is a typical duet partner live, the night got another special guest: Singer Madeline Merlo, who sang on the original 2023 track.
As with his previous Detroit stops, the gregarious singer-rapper shared generous Motor City love: He manned the stage in a royal-D Tigers ballcap, gushed about Detroit as home to both his favorite rapper and rock ‘n’ roller (Eminem and Bob Seger), saluted the Lions’ recent successes and applauded the city’s resurgence.
Ahead of “Son of a Sinner” — the 2022 hit that became his first country chart-topper — Jelly Roll had kind words for his night’s host, hailing WYCD’s Tim Roberts as one of the first country radio programmers to “take a chance” on his music.
Fans at the Fillmore, many of them WYCD contest winners, got treated to a sneak peek of a new work, “Liar,” another wrestling-demons song with a catchy ’70s touch.
Jelly Roll’s Wednesday show was his sixth Michigan appearance since 2023, and he’ll make it seven when he plays the biggest one of his career — a headlining set at July’s Faster Horses Festival.
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or [email protected].
Oops, you blinked and the Gosselin sextuplets turned 20.
Kate Gosselin shared a rare photo of four out of the six of her and ex-husband Jon Gosselin‘s youngest children May 12, Mother’s Day, two days after their 20th birthday.
“No more teenagers in this house!” the 49-year-old wrote on Instagram, alongside a pic of kids Alexis, Aaden, Leah and Joel. “Happy 20th birthday, my forever babies! I love you! Who feels old? I know I do! #20yearsold #ItsaPICKLE”
The Jon & Kate Plus 8 alum’s pic shows the four siblings standing by a chocolate-frosted birthday cake bearing decorations of a giant pickle and red jalapeños.
Jon, who lived in recent years with the other two sextuplets Collin and Hannah, also paid tribute to the sextuplets in an Instagram Live session. “I can’t believe they’re 20 either,” he responded to fan. “I wished all my kids happy birthday publicly.”
Hannah shared new images of herself on social media on her and her siblings’ birthday. “Made you look, twice,” she wrote on Instagram. #20thbirthday.”
Jon commented, “Happy 20th!!!! Daughter. [Love] u.”
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Sabrina Carpenter is celebrating a milestone birthday of titanic proportions.
The “Feather” singer turned 25 May 11 and marked the occasion at a party in New York City with friends and boyfriend Barry Keoghan, as seen in videos posted on TMZ and on social media. Rapper Ice Spice also shared on her Instagram Stories a clip of the birthday girl blowing out the candles on her sheet cake, which featured a Leonardo DiCaprio meme—a 2016 selfie of the Oscar winner bearing the caption, “Nooo don’t turn 25 your so sexy aha.”
The guest of honor also received a smaller, round cake containing the words, “Is 25 that sweet? I guess so!”—which includes lyrics from her latest single “Espresso.”
The former Disney Channel star also quoted the song in her own birthday post shared on Instagram. “That’s that me birthday,” she wrote in the caption, alongside childhood photos of herself.
Barry, 31, commented with an emoji of a face holding back tears and an X.
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