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Country Outsiders At the Core

ImageJelly Roll’s rapid absorption into country was reaffirmed with a nomination for entertainer of the year, the CMAs’ top prize.Credit...Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

For a clear glimpse into the evolving soul of modern country music, you could have done far worse than to travel to Charleston, W.Va., this fall to catch a stop on Jelly Roll’s headlining arena tour.

Jelly Roll, a heavily tattooed former gangster rapper remade as a country-rock preacher, delivers bombastic, melodic songs about the desperation of addiction and the power of faith. His latest album, “Beautifully Broken,” debuted atop the Billboard album chart in October.

His show is secular ministry — “church for people that don’t know they need church,” he said earlier in the evening, picking at some hash browns with bacon in a green room backstage. The concert was also, in some stretches, a hip-hop show, nodding to the decade-long rap career that preceded his breakout, and the ways in which that fact is no longer the obstacle to mainstream country success than it once might have been.

Ms. Harris may give remarks about border issues during the visit, according to the people, who insisted on anonymity to discuss a trip that has not yet been made public. The people said final details about exactly where Ms. Harris would visit or what else she might do on the trip have not been decided. The Harris campaign did not immediately provide a comment.

“What he said or didn’t say is between him and the people of North Carolina,” said Mr. Vance, former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate. He added: “I’ve seen some of the statements. I haven’t seen them all. Some of them are pretty gross, to put it mildly. Mark Robinson says that those statements are false, that he didn’t actually speak them. So I think it’s up to Mark Robinson to make his case to the people of North Carolina that those weren’t his statements.”

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In fact, the tour’s whole lineup reflected that suddenly un-tense tension: The opening acts were Ernest, a writer of hit songs and an emerging star in his own right, who had an early career stretch as a rapper; and Shaboozey, perhaps the year’s most striking country music breakout star, whose “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” — a seamless and savvy hybrid of country and hip-hop, built around the structure of the 2004 hip-hop hit “Tipsy” by J-Kwon — was rewarded with a record-tying 19 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

ImageHis show is secular ministry — “church for people that don’t know they need church,” Jelly Roll said.Credit...Kristian Thacker for The New York Times

A common-man rock star, a classicist with an edgy past and an easeful genre hybridizer — even a few years ago, one or more of these performers would have found country music’s doors closed to them. In subtle but not insignificant ways, though, the genre is accepting the inevitability of evolution — be it via performers who boldly engage with other genres, or via listeners whose consumption is more catholic than ever.

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