From Not Being Able to Vote in His Home State to Loving Golf: 10 Things You Don't Know About Jelly Roll

Country sensation Jelly Roll, 39, has followed up his breakout album Whitsitt Chapel with the recently released Beautifully Broken.

The record includes the upbeat jam "Get By," which was selected by ESPN as the 2024 College Football Season anthem. Keeping with his bounce-back brand, the reformed ex-con said the tune is about navigating life’s obstacles — and getting back up after falling down.

Here are ten things you don’t know about the "Son of a Sinner" singer, whose real name is Jason DeFord.

1. His nickname Jelly Roll came from his mother, who gave it to him when he was young and pudgy.

2. The failed jock played football, basketball and soccer in middle school and admitted, “I was absolutely mediocre at all three of them."

3. The Tennessee native can’t vote or own a firearm in his home state because of a non-expungable felony he got as a teen after being convicted of aggravated robbery.

4. The former drug dealer earned a GED in prison and later got an associate’s degree in sociology from Volunteer State Community College.

5. The musician's favorite Waffle House order is scrambled eggs with cheese and wheat toast, hash browns, a side of sausage and a chocolate chip waffle.

6. He married his wife, Alyssa DeFord — better known as "Dumb Blonde" podcast host Bunnie XO — on the same night he proposed to the former Las Vegas escort in 2016.

7. Last year, the recovering addict addressed a Senate committee to advocate for an act to help combat the country’s fentanyl crisis by targeting opioid traffickers.

8. The chart-topper said he regrets “97 percent” of his tattoos — but noted the inked cross on his face is “symbolic of a new beginning,” adding that it’s an “understanding that I need to bear my own cross.”

9. Johnny Cash, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are his musical influences.

10. His guilty pleasure is golf.