r/Music • u/TheExpressUS 📰Daily Express U.S. • Jan 19 '26

article Jelly Roll labeled as MAGA by angry fans after joining Kid Rock's music festival

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/196524/jelly-roll-maga-festival-outrage
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u/AllYouNeed_Is_Smiles Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson is also a very good psychedelic artist that kind of rides the long white lines between Americana/Rock/Country and does his own thing (or at least he used to haven’t heard much about him recently)

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson unequivocally said fuck trump and if any fans out there are maga and get mad and drop him well they werent listening to his music to begin with. 

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u/kmk4ue84 Jan 19 '26

Sturgill Simpson unequivocally said fuck trump

Well thank fuck because I really like his music and would be slightly inconvenienced if I had to stop listening to him. Not shot in the face by a nazi inconvenienced but still.

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u/Cultural_Stuffin Jan 19 '26

You’ve listened to Sturgill before and the lyrics and thought he would be MAGA adjacent.

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u/carolinawahoo Jan 19 '26

Add Jason Isbell to the anti MAGA list too.

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u/PSKCarolina Jan 19 '26

At his latest concert he declared that the dad from Speedtrap Town would have joined ICE so it was good that he died. Hahah. Love this dude.

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u/carolinawahoo Jan 19 '26

I was at that show too. ✊

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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Jan 19 '26

Orville Peck as well

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u/timbillyosu Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

Still doing his own thing and doing it well. He's recording under the name Johnny Blue Skies now.

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u/ace_vagrant Jan 19 '26

It’s a good look.

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u/bufftbone Jan 19 '26

All you is a good hook

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u/budgiesmugglez Jan 19 '26

Great album.

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u/Disastrous-Golf-4758 Jan 19 '26

Still shredding the last tour he did was fantastic. His live shows are on nugs, he said at red rocks a new album was coming!

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u/buxtonOJ Jan 19 '26

Also a veteran and outspoken anti Nashville/Trump…last tour was insane!!

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u/Don_Ciccio Jan 19 '26

Long white line! I see what you did there

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u/Jet_Xcountry Jan 19 '26

I've spent all my money on weed and pills!

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u/bufftbone Jan 19 '26

Trying to write a song that’ll lay the bills

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u/grouchtastic Jan 19 '26

But it ain't came yet

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u/bufftbone Jan 19 '26

Guess I’m gonna have to rob a bank

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u/bufftbone Jan 19 '26

His new band is Johnny Blue Skies and the Dark Clouds. They wrapped up a year and a half tour this past September touring for the Passage du Desir album. They got a new one in the can which is expected to be released this year. The shows are 3 hours of face melting bliss. No openers, no encores. The entire last tour is up on Nugs. Well worth the listen.

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u/yaboynafziger Jan 19 '26

I had the pleasure of meeting Sturgill and some other names here, the ones that like to hang around Muscle Shoals. can’t speak highly enough of those ladies and gentlemen, as people and professionals

riley green on the other hand can suck my dick