Machine Gun Kelly closed out the 2024 Folks’s Alternative Nation Awards with a bang!
On the awards present, which befell on Thursday, Sept. 26 on the Grand Ole Opry Home in Nashville, the rocker, born Colson Baker, 34, took to the stage to sing his hit “Lonely Highway” after the only received the Folks’s Alternative Nation Award for greatest crossover track of 2024.
Regardless of releasing it as a duet with Jelly Roll — who was not current on the award present — Kelly carried out the track solo. As a substitute, he was joined by his band members on the musical quantity amid a stage coated in greenery and string lights.
Comic Matt Rife launched the musician, calling him, “an artist who continues to redefine the boundaries of music.”
Forward of the ceremony, Kelly spoke with PEOPLE in an unique interview on the purple carpet about his sobriety journey. “I needed to zoom out and try myself from a holistic perspective,” he stated.
“I used to be born on the twenty second. Twenty-two is a grasp quantity. What am I right here to grasp? I needed to ask myself that query,” Kelly added. “What had been my generational curses and issues that had been handed down on to me and to my father? Relaxation in peace.”
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In July, Kelly and Jelly launched “Lonely Highway,” their first-ever collaborative track, which put a brand new spin on John Denver’s basic “Take Me Residence, Nation Roads.” Additionally they launched a heartfelt music video, which featured cameos from their different halves Megan Fox and Bunnie Xo.
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Within the visible, the pair star as two males enduring monetary difficulties whereas making an attempt to supply for his or her households, begins with the duo attending a funeral whereas carrying all-black earlier than they’re proven working at a automotive storage collectively.
Later, MGK is seen arriving dwelling and kissing Fox’s lips and abdomen, earlier than opening a “Ultimate Discover” demand. The clip then pans to footage of the couple standing by a lake with Fox, 38, showing to have a child bump as MGK skims a stone throughout the water.
The “Wild Ones” singer, 39, then comes dwelling to seek out an upset Bunnie Xo studying a letter titled, “Infertility prognosis and administration” and comforting her. (Jelly additionally revealed that he and his spouse, 44, had been present process IVF in June.)
The “Emo Lady” artist finally ends up robbing a financial institution earlier than the video jumps ahead to “8 months later” when Fox may be seen cradling a child in her arms and introducing the baby to Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo, earlier than taking the newborn woman to go to Kelly in jail.
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Along with Kelly, Brad Paisley, Kane Brown, Keith City, Kelsea Ballerini, Woman A, Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum and The Struggle and Treaty carried out on the 2024 PCCAs.
Presenters on the 2023 PCCAs included Rife, Dasha, Shaboozey, Ashley Cooke, Bailey Zimmerman, Chase Rice, Cody Rhodes, Orville Peck, Parker McCollum, Priscilla Block, Scotty McCreery, Tanner Adell, Dylan Dreyer, Carly Pearce, Dan + Shay, Little Massive City and Nate Bargatze.
The 2024 PCCAs will air stay on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT throughout NBC and Peacock from the Grand Ole Opry Home in Nashville.
