“Old Town Road” was yanked off the Billboard country chart after making a debut appearance, yet that only seemed to increase its notoriety and popularity, and Billy Ray Cyrus upped the ante by agreeing to appear on a remix.
Jingle Jared (aka Jared Gutstadt), a successful songwriter across genres and the founder of the creative music agency Jingle Punks, and Jelly Roll, a Nashville-based proponent of rootsy hip-hop and one of Jared’s collaborators, wrote forVarietyabout the frustrations and hopes renewed by the success of “Old Town Road.”