Jesse Jo Dillon On Winning Songwriter of the Year, Writing "Halfway to Hell" With Jelly Roll & More | ACM Awards 2024 - video Dailymotion

Jesse Jo Dillon caught up with Billboard's Melinda Newman on the Winners Walk at the ACM Awards 2024.

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00:00 We're with Jessie Jo Dillon who is holding the award for songwriter of the year.

00:05 So crazy.

00:06 So what does that even, how do you even get your head around taking home that award, especially

00:12 with the competition?

00:13 I know, stiff.

00:14 Stiff competition and all my friends in it so I don't know if I've ever had my head around

00:20 it yet.

00:21 I mean it feels, the realest it's felt is right now, holding it.

00:25 So I mean I hope it just feels more real as the days go on.

00:30 Talk about writing Halfway to Hell with Jelly Roll which was one of the songs that you were

00:34 up for.

00:35 So that's crazy, it was the first day Jelly and I ever met and we ended up, like he was

00:40 one of those people for me we just clicked.

00:42 I mean and we talked a lot about his life and my own life and our co-writers lives and

00:48 the song kind of just fell out pretty fast and we've written a lot together since and

00:56 it was kind of like one of those, it's one of those songs that's cool to see go number

00:59 one soon because it's the beginning of like someone I know I'll work with for my whole

01:04 life.

01:05 Well you're a legacy songwriter.

01:07 Have you gotten a chance to tell your dad yet that you won?

01:10 I FaceTimed him, he had no idea.

01:13 Shocking.

01:14 He's elusive.

01:15 He started crying pretty hard and I mean he's so proud, it's making me cry right now, he's

01:21 so proud which is so great and I know I cried to him, I was like I wouldn't be here if it

01:28 wasn't for you because you taught me what a great song is, you know.

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