A gathering of the late Leslie Jordan’s buddies and fellow artists shall be held on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville on Feb. 19.
Reportin’ for Responsibility: A Tribute to Leslie Jordan will have a good time his legacy, and all proceeds will go in the direction of EB Analysis Partnership, a corporation that helps fund analysis to deal with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Maren Morris, Brothers Osborne, Eddie Vedder, Brittney Spencer, Billy Strings, Lukas Nelson, Jelly Roll, Jake Wesley Rogers, Ashley McBryde, Travis Howard, Danny Myrick, and extra will carry out in honor of Jordan’s reminiscence. They are going to be joined by visitor appearances from Jim Parsons, Anthony Mason, Mayim Bialik, Cheyenne Jackson, Max Greenfield, Leanne Morgan, Margaret Cho, and Robyn Schall.
Jordan launched his first album within the spring of 2021, a group of gospel songs titled, Firm’s Comin’. As he instructed Rolling Stone on the time, the songs had been largely ones he remembered from his Southern Baptist youth, although he aimed to strategy them with none bitterness.
“To have the ability to come again to those hymns with no axe to grind, I’ve taken care of all that,” he mentioned. “I’m 22 years clear and sober, so that you do a variety of work in A.A. about anger and resentment and all of that. You simply come to understand, everyone again then was doing one of the best they may with the sunshine they needed to see with.”
Jordan died Oct. 24, following a automobile crash in Los Angeles. He was 67. The Reportin’ for Responsibility home band will embody musicians who carried out on Jordan’s debut album.
Tickets for the tribute present will go on sale Friday, Jan. 13, at 10 a.m. CT. Pre-sale tickets shall be out there Jan. 12 at 10 a.m. CT.