#Wait for it musicality plus#

The story of lives being resurrected, careers being built and organic suburban Nashville culture impacting Music Row begins best in January 2009 in a Nashville recording studio. Or, they could've aspired to wear diamond-encrusted chains with Jelly Roll's logo and bearing the name of the hit song in question (as Jelly Roll, ERNEST and Stevens wore).

#Wait for it musicality plus#

On Wednesday evening, Nashville native Jelly Roll (alongside fellow songwriters David Ray Stevens and ERNEST, plus producer Ilya Toshinsky) celebrated the impressive eight-month rise of the emotive, heart-wrenching ballad 'Son Of A Sinner' - his first Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase Country Aircheck chart-topper - at Broadcast Music Inc.'s (BMI) Music Row offices.Īside from cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, the event was able to induce, depending on perspectives, a sudden shock or gentle smile, given evolutionary shifts that success being achieved by native Nashville artists, including Jelly Roll and ERNEST, is having on mainstream country music's ever-broadening cultural expectation.Įvery artist, engineer, label executive, songwriter and producer in the room could have left the festivities with a tattoo from, yes, the actual tattoo station set up in the back of BMI's front lobby.