Jelly Roll just wants to “spread the love.”

The country star and former inmate took his music to the yard this week, singing songs for inmates at the maximum security Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

The Grammy-nominated star’s setlist at the prison yard show appropriately included Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” which he personalized to “Oregon State Prison.”

“For the first time in 20 fucking years, they brought music to the prison yard,” Jelly Roll told the prisoners gathered around his makeshift stage.

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Jelly Roll performed at the Oregon State Penitentiary on Monday. (JellyRoll/Instagram)

“I’m just trying to spread love,” the “Save Me” singer wrote in the caption of an Instagram video.

He told them: “I wrote my first song behind the walls. There is no better feeling than going back behind the wall and singing a song for all of you.”

“If you love to draw, if you love to write, if you love to love poetry, if you love to listen to music, if you love to play guitar, I just pray that you put that passion into it and live it out as best as you can,” he added.

The 39-year-old said his friend and famous bow hunter Cam Hanes encouraged the singer to visit the prison after he had been there himself.

Jelly Roll shared photos of himself posing with prisoners. (JellyRoll/Instagram)

“I was just as excited as he was. After we chatted for a minute, he told me he had an idea that maybe next time I could come along and sing songs,” Jelly Roll wrote of Monday’s visit. “I immediately told him we would make it happen.”

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“It was a nice feeling to bring a little light to such a dark place. I firmly believe that when we commit crimes, we should serve our time and be held accountable for our actions. But I also believe that every person deserves love, no matter how bad the decision they made was.”

Jelly Roll signs autographs at the Oregon State Prison. (JellyRoll/Instagram)

Hanes was with Jelly Roll during the show.

“What a show. Unbelievable. These guys had so much fun at the show,” Hanes said.

Jelly Roll added, “It felt good to show love to those guys. I remember being in a dark place and no one coming through and giving us hope to change the course of our lives. If one inmate was inspired to be better by my presence yesterday, then me coming by and singing was worth its weight in gold.”

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He described his visit as “chicken soup for the soul” and thanked prison staff for allowing him to perform.

In his Instagram video, Jelly Roll noted that he has visited prisons before, “but this damn thing is different.”

“I’m sure I speak for Cam and I when I say we came to this prison to do good for people and left with a sense of bliss,” he wrote on Instagram.

Jelly Roll’s set list included “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash, which he personalized as “Oregon State Prison”. (JellyRoll/Instagram)

Jelly Roll stayed after his show to talk to the inmates and sign autographs on the tickets the prison had issued for the concert.

“He was great,” said one inmate who met the singer. Another inmate said after hearing “Save Me” on the radio for the first time, “I got clean that day.”

The singer knows what it’s like. As a teenager, he was arrested dozens of times for drug trafficking and ended up in prison for the first time at the age of 14. In addition to drug trafficking, he was also accused of shoplifting and aggravated robbery.

At age 16, he was charged as an adult with a robbery involving a weapon.

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“I never want to overlook the fact that it was a heinous crime,” he told Billboard last year. “Here is a grown man looking back at a 16-year-old boy who made the worst decision of his life. People could have been hurt, but thank God no one was hurt.”

“I wouldn’t be the man I am today if I hadn’t gone through what I went through,” Jelly Roll told Fox News Digital last year. “I think it gave me strength. I think it gave me my voice. It taught me a lot about overcoming. It taught me a lot about change and the ability to change.”

“I was a terrible person for decades, and to turn that around and use music to share a message and help people… and just try to give back as much as I can in any way I can is very indicative of where I come from and how important it is for me to keep coming back.”