Save Me (Jelly Roll song)
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- June 25, 2020 (original)
- May 12, 2023 (remix)
- June 3, 2020 (original)
- January 30, 2023 (remix)
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| Single by Jelly Roll featuring Lainey Wilson | ||||
| from the album Self Medicated and Whitsitt Chapel | ||||
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| Studio | Sound Emporium (Nashville) | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
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| Producer | David Ray | |||
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| "Save Me" on YouTube | ||||
"Save Me" is a song by American musician Jelly Roll, released on June 25, 2020, as a single from his seventh studio album Self Medicated (2020).[1][2] An official remix of the song with American country music singer Lainey Wilson was released on May 12, 2023, as the second single from his ninth studio album Whitsitt Chapel (2023).[3]
The song was sampled on "Somebody Save Me", the third single from Eminem's 2024 album The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).[4][5]
The music video of the song premiered on June 16, 2020. In the description, Jelly Roll stated, "This one is a little bit of a curveball for me. I don't usually do these stripped down acoustic videos, but writing this song made me feel something and I felt y'all needed some insight into the more vulnerable side of the music business."[6]
In regard to his inspiration for writing the song, Jelly Roll told Apple Music:
It was the middle of the pandemic. And when I say middle of it, I mean we were spraying boxes with Lysol. And I just couldn't sit through that. I was like, "We got to work." And I was in such a dark space because of that; I knew I needed to write. My father had just died a year before. So I'm still learning how to grieve through that. And then I'm like, "We got to write. I got to get this out of me." So "Save Me" came from a really dark space. It's still really hard to sing.[7]
In a June 2024 interview with Howard Stern, Jelly Roll further revealed that inspiration for the song came from Bette Midler's song "The Rose".[8]
Live performances
Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson performed the song at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards and later at the finale of season 21 of American Idol.[9]
Credits and personnel
Original version
- Jelly Roll — vocals
- David Ray — acoustic guitar
- Stu Stapleton — piano
Remix version
- Jelly Roll — vocals
- Lainey Wilson — vocals
- David Ray — backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Robyn Raynelle — backing vocals
- Sol Philcox-Littlefield — acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Nathan Keeterle — electric guitar
- Stu Stapleton — piano
- Devin Malone — bass guitar
- Grady Saxman — drums