Jelly Roll Tour 2026

Inside Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll is the heavily tattooed Antioch, Tennessee singer-songwriter — born Jason DeFord — who spent the better part of two decades carving a path through underground hip-hop and Christian rap mixtapes before pivoting to country and country-rock in the early 2020s and walking off with the biggest mainstream country breakout story of the decade. The pivot itself was not a calculation but a gradual collision: a Nashville kid who grew up on Three 6 Mafia and Hank Williams Jr. in equal measure, who had run a small but loyal SoundCloud and YouTube following on hip-hop releases since the late 2000s, who had been writing increasingly country-leaning songs about addiction, prison, redemption and family for years before the 2020 single "Save Me" — a raw acoustic recovery ballad — caught fire on TikTok and country radio and rewrote everything.

The Lainey Wilson duet version of "Save Me" hit No. 1 on country radio in 2023 and went multi-platinum. The follow-up album Whitsitt Chapel arrived in June 2023, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, and produced the singles "Need a Favor" and "Halfway to Hell" that kept Jelly Roll on country radio without interruption through the following year.

Beautifully Broken landed in 2024 and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, the all-genre chart, the first No. 1 album of his career and a confirmation that the crossover was permanent. Two Grammy nominations, multiple CMA and ACM Awards through the 2023 and 2024 cycles, and a touring footprint that has scaled from clubs to theaters to amphitheaters to full-arena headline shows in the span of three years.

The recovery-and-redemption narrative — addiction, incarceration in his teens and early twenties, decades of work, a slow climb out — is the through-line of every interview and every set. His wife Bunnie Xo, a podcaster and businesswoman, is the partner-in-public who has co-authored the second-chance brand alongside him.

This page is the landing spot for current tour dates, ticket information, setlists and city-specific show information, kept evergreen so it tracks each touring leg as the routing rolls out.

About Jelly Roll

Jason Bradley DeFord was born December 4, 1984 in Antioch, a working-class neighborhood on the southern edge of Nashville, Tennessee. He picked up the Jelly Roll nickname from his mother in childhood and kept it through middle school, through the early scrapes with the law that landed him in juvenile detention before he was old enough to drive, and through the multiple incarcerations as a young adult that he has spoken about openly in interviews ever since.

The first mixtape, The Plain Shmear Tape, dropped in 2003 when he was eighteen and just out of one of those stints; the next decade ran through a long catalogue of independent hip-hop and Southern rap releases on his own SlumeRok and Bailee & Buddy labels, collaborations with Lil Wyte, Memphis-Tennessee rap legend Haystak, Tech N9ne's Strange Music orbit, and a loyal but underground YouTube and SoundCloud following that kept him touring small clubs across the Southeast without ever cracking mainstream radio.

The pivot began quietly. By the mid-2010s the songs on his mixtapes were drifting toward acoustic guitar, country phrasing, gospel choruses and confessional verses about addiction, incarceration, mental health and recovery.

The 2020 single "Save Me" — a stripped-back acoustic ballad about asking for help before it's too late — caught fire on TikTok during the pandemic year and pulled him onto country radio for the first time. The album Self Medicated and the EP Ballads of the Broken followed across 2020 and 2021 and pushed the country crossover further.

By 2022 he was opening for Eric Church and Shinedown on arena tours, picking up CMT Music Awards, and signing his first major-label country deal with Stoney Creek Records (a BBR Music Group/BMG imprint).

Whitsitt Chapel arrived in June 2023 and made the crossover official: a country-rock-gospel record named after the church his grandmother attended, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and was reportedly held off the top spot only by Taylor Swift's Speak Now re-recording. The Lainey Wilson duet version of "Save Me" topped country radio.

"Need a Favor" went multi-platinum. "Halfway to Hell" extended the country radio run.

The 2023 CMA Awards saw him win New Artist of the Year and Musical Event of the Year for "Save Me". Grammy nominations followed in two cycles, including Best New Artist.

The 2024 album Beautifully Broken arrived in October 2024 and debuted at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200, his first chart-topping record. Touring scaled from theater-and-amphitheater co-headline runs to full headline arena tours by 2024, with the production growing into a full multi-instrument road band and a horn section on select dates.

He has been candid in every press interview about the long arc — the years in and out of correctional facilities, the substance use he has worked to leave behind, the partnership with his wife Bunnie Xo, the daughter and son who anchor the home life he writes about — and that openness is the connective tissue between the prison-and-recovery songwriter narrative and the arena-headliner brand.

Jelly Roll tour dates

Current Jelly Roll touring runs as full headline arena legs that have scaled steadily since the 2023 Whitsitt Chapel cycle, with routings building out across North America and increasingly into the UK and continental Europe. Venues range across the major North American arena circuit — Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Madison Square Garden in New York, Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, Scotiabank Arena in Toronto, United Center in Chicago, American Airlines Center in Dallas — plus the larger amphitheater rooms and select festival headline slots on the country and rock summer circuits.

Sets typically run a full 90 to 110 minutes with a five-to-six-piece road band, sometimes joined by gospel-style background vocalists and a small horn section on the bigger production runs; the show pulls equally from the Whitsitt Chapel and Beautifully Broken cycles, with a handful of older hip-hop-leaning cuts reworked for the country-rock format and an acoustic mid-set storyteller passage that anchors the recovery-narrative arc. Stage production has scaled with the tour: full LED video walls on the most recent arena legs, a runway out into the floor on select dates, and a deliberate gospel-and-blues lighting design that warms during the slower ballads and explodes into rock-arena white during the closing run.

Door times typically run 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. for arena dates with the opener around 7:30 and Jelly Roll on stage around 9:00. Support acts have rotated across legs and have included a deliberate mix of country and rock crossover artists — Warren Zeiders, Ashley Cooke, Struggle Jennings, Yelawolf, Bailey Zimmerman and other artists from the country-rock-and-redemption corner of the format.

Future tour announcements roll out through the official Jelly Roll site, BMG country channels and Ticketmaster; this page reflects the live schedule pulled directly from the live event grid above as new dates are confirmed.

Jelly Roll tickets

Jelly Roll tickets are sold through Ticketmaster as the primary outlet, with secondary inventory available on StubHub, SeatGeek, Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster's own verified resale platform linked from each event card above. Arena pricing on a current headline tour typically opens with upper-bowl reserved seats in the lower double-digit to low triple-digit range, lower-bowl reserved seats in a higher range, and floor and front-of-stage VIP packages climbing further depending on demand and city.

Amphitheater dates tend to offer a lawn tier at a lower entry price and reserved pavilion seats at a mid-range, with premium pit pricing for the front rows. Specific prices vary substantially by city, day of week, venue and time of release, so the event cards above reflect current Ticketmaster face value at the moment you load the page rather than a fixed published number.

Fan club and Citi cardmember presales typically open the Tuesday or Wednesday before the Friday public on-sale, and remain the most reliable path to good seats on high-demand markets like Nashville, Madison Square Garden and Los Angeles. Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration has been used on select on-sales to keep bot inventory off the early window; check the official site as soon as a date is announced to keep registration windows open.

Dynamic pricing applies on most Jelly Roll on-sales, so face value can move during the queue — refresh the secondary market in the final week on weekday non-major-market dates and you'll often catch a meaningful drop on reserved pairs. Always buy from a marketplace with a buyer guarantee and avoid private resale via social media or unverified third-party sellers.

Jelly Roll setlist

A current Jelly Roll setlist runs about eighteen to twenty-two songs across 90 to 110 minutes and is built around three distinct movements rather than a flat run of singles. The night usually opens with a hard-driving country-rock cut to set the room energy, then settles into the radio singles run that pulls in "Need a Favor", "Halfway to Hell" and the singalong-anchor "Son of a Sinner".

The mid-set storyteller passage is the emotional pivot — Jelly Roll moves to an acoustic guitar or sits down stage-front, walks the audience through the recovery-and-second-chance arc of the brand, and plays "Save Me" close to the way the original 2020 acoustic single was recorded, with the Lainey Wilson duet section either covered by a touring background vocalist or invited as a guest spot on the rare night when scheduling lines up. The back half pulls heavily from Beautifully Broken with cuts like "I Am Not Okay" and "Liar", reworked versions of earlier hip-hop-era material adapted for the country-rock band, and a closing run that typically lands on a gospel-tinged anthem before the final encore.

The exact running order varies leg to leg and night to night — Jelly Roll has spoken in interviews about preferring to keep flexibility for guest spots and audience-driven adjustments — so check setlist.fm after the first night of any new tour leg for the current order. Fan submissions usually go up within a few hours of last call.

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