Jelly Roll Sings ‘I Am Now not Okay,’ ‘Hollywood Nights’ at FireAid Live performance

Jelly Roll didn’t write “I Am Now not Okay” particularly in regards to the Los Angeles fires, however like lots of the songs carried out throughout the Thursday (Jan. 30) FireAid receive advantages live performance, it took on added which means given the emotional upheaval Los Angelenos have long past during the previous month as fires have ravaged portions of the county.

Striding out at the Intuit Dome degree wearing an L.A. Dodgers cap, he declared he was once “going to deliver some nation song” to the night time prior to launching into the tune, whose chorus — “I’m no longer OK, nevertheless it’s all going to be all proper” — struck the easiest chord for the night time. The tune’s message of resilience and Jelly Roll’s assured, sympathetic supply felt like a reassuring promise.

After he completed the music, which Jelly took to No. 1 on Billboard’s Nation Airplay chart remaining 12 months, he presented himself to the target market calling himself Jason “Jelly Roll” Deford, prior to including, “I believe it’s essential whilst I’m in this degree to sing a tune about one among my favourite towns in The united states, however I will be able to’t do this with out any individual from Los Angeles. I want to deliver my large brother Travis Barker out to play this night.”

With that, the Blink-182 drummer settled in at the back of the drum equipment and the band barreled via a propulsive, using model of Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band’s “Hollywood Nights,” Seger’s 1978 vintage a couple of Midwest man who will get misplaced within the excesses of the Los Angeles hills and within the attract of 1 specific lady, as he who wonders after all of it is going south, if it’s too past due to return house.

Jelly Roll was once one among greater than two dozen performers — together with Stevie Nicks, John Mayer, Rod Stewart, P!nk and No Doubt — who took over the Intuit Dome and Kia Discussion board for the convenience, which is elevating cash for sufferers of the fires and for long run hearth prevention.