Jelly Roll is talking candidly about his expertise attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) conferences, a subject he says he’s by no means talked about in public earlier than.

In a brand new interview with The New York Times, the artist — who’s topped each the Mainstream Rock Airplay and Country Airplay charts — was requested about an unreleased music, “Winning Streak,” which shall be heard on upcoming album Beautifully Broken, scheduled for launch in fall 2024. “Winning Streak” “basically describes going to an AA meeting,” NYT‘s David Marchese famous within the dialog. “Is alcohol addiction something you struggle with or have struggled with?”

Jelly Roll defined the music was written “from the perspective of a story I’d seen happen for real” at an AA assembly, which he’ll attend “for my demons.”

“I still will have a cocktail every now and then and I’m a known weed smoker, but I got away from the drugs that I knew were gonna kill me,” Jelly Roll stated of his relationship with medicine and alcohol within the podcast interview printed on Saturday (Aug. 17).

He continued, “It was really hard for me to get away from those drugs,” which he’s beforehand stated included substances together with cocaine, ache tablets and codeine. “Something I do [for] maintaining my relationship with those drugs is I will still attend the meetings, even though I’m not a textbook sober guy — but I never share, I just quietly sit and appreciate the message and the meaning.”

Added Jelly Roll, “This is the first time I’ve talked about this publicly at all. I don’t tell people I go to meetings. It’s not a part of my story that I share because I have so much respect for the men and women in that program that get actually completely sober, that I never want my stuff to get in the way of them.”

Jelly Roll, who says within the chat that he’s “actively doing better every single day,” described the second at an AA assembly that influenced his writing on “Winning Streak.” It tells another person’s story, however within the first-person perspective.

He stated that felt proper for this specific monitor, and named first-person songs like James Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind” which have impressed him and made him emotional, solely because the listener.

“This kid, he’s going through it,” he stated of the assembly that resulted in writing “Winning Streak.” “One of the old men sitting there was like, ‘Look man, it’s all good. Nobody came in here on a winning streak.’ It was such a beautiful thing. If you’ve ever been to an AA meeting, a big one, like this room had 20, 30 people in it, it felt like …. You watch the room kind of split when he said that ‘cause half of the room are old, sober dudes who remember being the young dude, so they chuckle, and the other half are other dudes who just immediately feel it in their bones and cry. But it’s all the same emotion and feeling, and right then, there it was. That was the beginning of ‘Winning Streak.’”

“Get By,” one other new music from his upcoming album, will function the soundtrack for ESPN’s season-long school soccer protection throughout ESPN networks and ABC. Jelly Roll, who’s newest new music launch is the collab “Losers” on Post Malone’s F-1 Trillion album, will hit the street for a collection of headlining tour dates later this month.

Listen to his full interview, clocking in at over a half-hour, with The New York Times under.