The highly talked-about Jelly Roll mural in Lexington has been covered up, but its replacement is months away from being unveiled.
When Jelly Roll performed in to a sold out crowd at Rupp Arena in 2023, a promotional mural of the singer was painted on the side of Record Nations on South Broadway.
But the mural of him stuck around, even after the performer visited Lexington a second time for the Railbird Music Festival in 2025. His face watched traffic pass by on South Broadway for nearly three years before being painted over this week.
“So the mural that was here previously, I think it was intended just to be a promotional mural for that specific festival when he was in town, and then was just never rotated,” said Alexandra Pangburn, a local muralist and founder of Babe Walls, who is working on the new mural…