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Jesse Jo Dillon On Winning Songwriter of the Year, Writing "Halfway to Hell" With Jelly Roll & More | ACM Awards 2024
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5/17/2024
Jesse Jo Dillon caught up with Billboard's Melinda Newman on the Winners Walk at the ACM Awards 2024.
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We're with Jessie Jo Dillon who is holding the award for songwriter of the year.
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So crazy.
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So what does that even, how do you even get your head around taking home that award, especially
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with the competition?
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I know, stiff.
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Stiff competition and all my friends in it so I don't know if I've ever had my head around
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it yet.
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I mean it feels, the realest it's felt is right now, holding it.
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So I mean I hope it just feels more real as the days go on.
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Talk about writing Halfway to Hell with Jelly Roll which was one of the songs that you were
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up for.
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So that's crazy, it was the first day Jelly and I ever met and we ended up, like he was
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one of those people for me we just clicked.
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I mean and we talked a lot about his life and my own life and our co-writers lives and
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the song kind of just fell out pretty fast and we've written a lot together since and
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it was kind of like one of those, it's one of those songs that's cool to see go number
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one soon because it's the beginning of like someone I know I'll work with for my whole
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life.
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Well you're a legacy songwriter.
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Have you gotten a chance to tell your dad yet that you won?
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I FaceTimed him, he had no idea.
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Shocking.
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He's elusive.
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He started crying pretty hard and I mean he's so proud, it's making me cry right now, he's
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so proud which is so great and I know I cried to him, I was like I wouldn't be here if it
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wasn't for you because you taught me what a great song is, you know.
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