Kurt Titchenell, Jellyroll’s founder-trombonist, sued Tennessee country music star Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, in federal court.
Jellyroll band leader Kurt Titchenell watches and listens as Jellyroll rehearses for a wedding at the Union League in 2019.The musical stylings of Chadds Ford wedding band Jellyroll have taken the group to the Union League, the Army-Navy game, and George W. Bush’s White House — twice. Now, the band is headed to federal court in a trademark infringement lawsuit.
Titchenell has been playing celebratory and charitable events in the Delaware Valley since at least 1980, according to the suit. His gigs now span the Northeast. What’s more, Titchenell trademarked the Jellyroll name in 2010 for “entertainment services in the nature of live musical performances.” He most recently renewed the trademark in 2019.
Fast forward to the country singer’s recent success — he won three fan-voted CMT Music Awards earlier this month — and Titchenell, whose band once was a top search result in Google, has been bumped some 20 spots down, according to the suit. By the end of February, the wedding band Jellyroll appeared to have had enough. Titchenell’s counsel filed a cease-and-desist letter that sparked “several conversations” between the artists’ camps, which led nowhere. Jelly Roll has continued to use the name on marketing materials and the country singer’s legal team asked whether the two artists were really in competition.
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