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Info From Music Row 04/17/2024

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The bigger you are, the bigger the target on your back. Jelly Roll is finding this out. He's a huge star now, but apparently there is another musical act that's been around since the 80s - and have had the name "Jellyroll" trademarked since 2010. Jellyroll, who bills themselves as "Philly's Favorite Wedding Band," has filed suit to stop Jelly Roll (real name: Jason De Ford) from using the name professionally. Kurt L. Titchenell, a founding member of Jellyroll, "seeks injunctive relief" against defendant De Ford for service mark infringement, according to court documents. Titchenell’s band most recently renewed the trademark in 2019. The suit alleges that by Jelly Roll using the name, it has damaged the band’s ability to get their name out, causing "confusion in the marketplace." According to the suit, "Prior to the Defendant’s recent rise in notoriety, a search of the name of Jellyroll on most search engines, and particularly Google, returned references to the Plaintiff. Now, any such search on Google returns multiple references to Defendant, perhaps as many as 18-20 references before any reference to Plaintiff’s entertainment dance band known as Jellyroll® can be found." Jelly Roll the country singer has said that his mother gave him the nickname as a child, long before his career began. He did not begin using the name as a performer until around 2010, the same time that Jellyroll initially obtained the trademark. The band Jellyroll’s biggest gig came in 2007 when President George W. Bush’s daughters saw them play and they earned an invitation to play at the White House. Former first lady Laura Bush later asked the band to play at her 44th high school reunion. As far as the lawsuit is concerned, no comment from Jelly Roll the country singer.

Speaking of Jelly Roll - who weighed in at close to 500 pounds at his heaviest - is on a mission to bring that number way down. Of course, it's April, so most New Year's resolutions have gone by the boards - so how's Jelly doing? Apparently, really well. "I'm probably down 70-something pounds," Jelly recently told "PEOPLE." "I've been really kicking a**, man. I'm doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week. I'm doing 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day. I'm eating healthy right now." He has no intention of stopping any time soon. "I feel really good," he says. "I was thinking, I plan on losing another 100, 100-and-something [pounds]. If I feel this good down this weight, man, I can only imagine what I'm going to feel like by the time I go on tour."

Two titans of their respective genres teaming up for an all-time classic? Sign us up! Slash is putting out a straight-up blues album, "Orgy Of The Damned," and since Slash isn't much of a vocalist, he went straight to one of the great blues voices of our time - Chris Stapleton. "His singing cadence and that drawl that he has for this particular song, in my mind’s eye, it sounded perfect,” Slash told "Rolling Stone." The song? The classic Fleetwood Mac blues-rock rave-up "Oh Well." "I had to get his number and cold-call him," Slash added. "And he was really gracious about it and really bent over backwards to help me get it done." After they recorded the track, it came out exactly how Slash imagined it would. "I think it was one of the best ideas I’ve had in recent memory, was to have him sing that song," he said. "Orgy Of The Damned" comes out May 17; hear the results of their collaboration below...


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