Jelly Roll is continuing to “spread love” wherever he goes.
This week, the “Save Me” singer made a stop at a maximum security prison in Oregon, where he gave the inmates the performance of a lifetime.
While at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, Jelly Roll performed a setlist that included Johnny Cash ‘s “Folsom Prison Blues,” which the late icon famously performed at the prison just north of Sacramento, Calif., in 1968.
Playing his own rendition of the song, Jelly Roll, 39, personalized the lyrics with “Oregon State Prison” while addressing the fact that it has been twenty years since prisoners were allowed to have live music in the yard.
“For the first time in 20 f—king years they have brought music to the prison yard,” he could be heard telling the crowd in a video of the performance posted to Instagram .
Jelly, who was incarcerated in his youth, personally related to the experience of the inmates at the prison, telling them, “I wrote my first song behind the walls. It never feels better than to come back behind the wall and sing a song for y’all.”