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The meaning behind Jelly Roll and Struggle Jennings' 2018 collaboration, "Fall in the Fall," has to do with surviving with the cards dealt.

Struggle Jennings is the artist Jelly Roll named when asked, Who's next? During this interview, fans learn who he is and why he's ready.

EIGHTY years ago on Monday, HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck with the loss of 1,415 men – the biggest single death toll in the history of the Royal Navy. Four of the lost men feature on a happy times photo, taken of them standing at the taffrail of the Hood in their tropical white shorts. It was sent back to their hometown of Darlington to their mate in the railway workshops who had been left behind by a quirk of fate. “They had all served their time at North Road, but when they tried to join the Royal Navy my father, Reg, was kept back because he was a coppersmit...

Country and rap wouldn't seem like kissing cousins, but Struggle Jennings finds a way for the two rival musical forms not just to coexist but also to support each other. Jennings, 40, will be bringing his brand of country rap to a sold-out show at the King of Clubs on May 10, with the emphasis on his latest album, “Troubadour of Troubled Souls.” Born William Harness, the musician is the grandson of country great Jessi Colter and the stepgrandson of outlaw country pioneer Waylon Jennings. Growing up in Nashville, Tennessee, in the '80s, he was exposed both to their music and to rap.

To country music fans, Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter are outlaw royalty. To Brianna Harness, they're the great-grandparents who hired a bunch of pretend princesses and threw her a big birthday party when she was a toddler. "Growing up, it was pretty normal ... We had our own struggles, our own problems. And with Waylon passing away when I was two, three years old, I don't have too much of a memory of him -- I just have, like, a whole bunch of pictures," says Harness, now in her early 20s. She's the daughter of country rapper Struggle Jennings (given name: William Harness), himself the son ...