Album Info

Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up The Pieces)

Country - 2024

Jelly Roll’s quick rise from obscure Nashville hip-hop artist to beloved country singer-songwriter is one of the genre’s more exciting... more

Tracklist

1

Winning Streak

3:14 min
2

Burning

2:51 min
3

Heart of Stone

3:01 min
4

I Am Not Okay

3:18 min
5

When The Drugs Don’t Work

3:23 min
6

Higher Than Heaven

2:49 min
7

Liar

3:24 min
8

Everyone Bleeds

2:22 min
9

Get By

2:40 min
10

Unpretty

2:44 min
11

Grace

2:51 min
12

What It Takes

3:13 min
13

Hey Mama

2:36 min
14

Time of Day

3:11 min
15

Born Again

2:36 min
16

Guilty

2:52 min
17

Little Light

3:00 min
18

Hear Me Out

2:37 min
19

Woman

3:19 min
20

Smile So Much

3:14 min
21

My Cross

2:12 min
22

What’s Wrong With Me

3:08 min
23

Take A Bow

3:40 min
24

Don’t Want To

3:18 min
25

Devil Down

2:16 min
26

Really Gone

3:05 min
27

Past Yesterday

3:13 min
28

Lonely Road

3:09 min

About Beautifully Broken (Pickin’ Up The Pieces)

Jelly Roll’s quick rise from obscure Nashville hip-hop artist to beloved country singer-songwriter is one of the genre’s more exciting success stories in recent memory. In just a couple years’ time, the Antioch, Tennessee-born and -raised artist, whose offstage name is Jason DeFord, has won major awards, including New Artist of the Year at the 2023 CMAs, a category that often serves as an industry coronation. During that period, he collaborated with a laundry list of stars from country music and beyond, including Lainey Wilson, Eminem, Post Malone, and Cody Johnson. It’s appropriate, then, that this follow-up to DeFord’s first proper country album, 2023’s wildly successful Whitsitt Chapel, would take an inspirational tone: A man with a checkered past that includes time in prison, Jelly Roll has never shied away from using his own story to motivate others. Beautifully Broken opens with “Winning Streak,” a deeply vulnerable song about substance abuse and recovery, with gospel choir vocals backing up DeFord’s hopeful imperatives to “hold on.” He is similarly encouraging on “Everyone Bleeds,” a hip-hop-tinged reminder that money can’t buy immortality, and “Born Again,” a bluesy invocation of resilience that makes great use of his soulful side. Other highlights include single “I Am Not Okay,” a brooding plea for compassion in tough times, and closing track “What’s Wrong with Me,” a comparably bright and buoyant celebration of accepting one’s imperfections.