Jelly Roll's independent debut album, The Big Sal Story, appeared in 2012, and in 2013 he announced his Whiskey, Weed, & Waffle House mixtape, quickly drawing the attention of the breakfast restaurant chain's legal department. In 2011, he joined Wyte and BPZ in the group SNO, who issued Year Round, an album produced by DJ Paul and Juicy J and released on the Three 6 Mafia-associated label Hypnotize Minds. His music took the form of rugged Southern rock, R&B-tinged instrumentals, country-inspired acoustic numbers, and hardcore rap on albums like 2020's A Beautiful Disaster and 2021's Ballads of the Broken.īorn Jason DeFord, Jelly Roll began rapping around 2005, and started to break through the underground thanks to collaborations with Lil Wyte and Haystak.
However, mocking the show’s institution of lip-synching by switching roles, Noel and Liam ensured that their fully-mimed rendition of Roll With It went down in TOTP history.Ĭlutching at straws here perhaps, but without Oasis’ fifth consecutive Top 10 single, we would have been denied the all-time classic Britpop joke: What do you say to Liam Gallagher when he’s having a bowl of soup? ‘Do you want a roll with it.Going deep into the Southern roots of various styles, Tennessee rapper/vocalist/songwriter Jelly Roll explores themes of addiction, pain, and struggling to reach better days with Southern rap beats and soulful, bluesy vocal performances.
The image of Oasis, dressed in one of their signature outfits (the duffle coat and jeans combo) and watching TV on the beach at Weston-Super-Mare, is a much more striking one which perfectly captures the band at the peak of their powers.īlur’s start-of-the-show introduction on a milk float proved to be more memorable than their performance of Country House on the BBC’s sorely-missed Top of the Pops. It’s Better People, an acoustic arms-aloft affair fronted by Noel, and Rockin’ Chair, a melancholic ode to failed dreams in which Liam gives one of his most restrained vocal performances, added to their catalogue of hidden gems.īlur also had plenty of great B-sides – but the annoying kazoo-heavy One Born Every Minute certainly wasn’t one of them.īlur’s artwork for Country House, a horizontally-flipped image of Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein Castle, was the pure definition of ‘does what it says on the tin.’
Noel Gallagher was on such a winning streak in the mid-90s that he could afford to throw away tracks as B-sides that most Britpop bands would give up their Good Mixer loyalty card for to release as a lead single. MORE : Nine things the kids of today will never understand about Britpop However, two decades on and the performance-based promo, which shows the Mancunians in their natural element, has undoubtedly aged better than the bawdy Benny Hill-esque antics of Damien Hirst’s lad mag-friendly clip. Noel’s barnstorming solo on Roll With It fits in perfectly with all the heavy distortion elsewhere and elevates a fairly average song into something vaguely anthemic.įor such a high-profile release, it’s surprising that Roll With It received such a basic video treatment. Graham Coxon’s Pavement-esque guitar solo is certainly more intriguing, foreshadowing the lo-fi alt-rock direction that Blur would pursue so successfully on 1997’s self-titled LP, but it feels entirely out of place among all the song’s inherent jauntiness.
But although Roll With It remains one of the weaker numbers on parent album What’s The Story Morning Glory, its gigantic wall of sound still retains a certain straight-forward charm that one of the few notable tracks on the much-maligned The Great Escape severely lacks.