Anybody who knows Brantley Gilbert knows that he’s an open book when it comes to who he is and where he’s been in his life.  Everything he writes and sings about is authentically him because he says, “I don’t pretend to be something I’m not. I don’t have to because my story’s interesting enough as it is.”

If you don’t know Brantley well, all you have to do is listen to his latest single, “The Ones That Like Me,” to get a true understanding of who he is.  He says, “That song is me in a nutshell, where I’m at in life, and the people that are close to me and know me really well know that that song’s me in a nutshell. ‘The ones that need me got me, the ones that doubt me can’t stop me, even the ones that said forget me, you can bet they ain’t forgot me.’ It’s just kind of what you see is what you get. I am who I am and the people that are close to me in life, that know me, know every aspect of me.”

Brantley Gilbert – The Ones That Like Me  :28

“I don’t pretend to be something I’m not. I don’t have to because my story’s interesting enough as it is. But that song is me in a nutshell, where I’m at in life, and the people that are close to me and know me really well know that that song’s me in a nutshell. ‘The ones that need me got me, the ones that doubt me can’t stop me, even the ones that said forget me, you can bet they ain’t forgot me.’ It’s just kind of what you see is what you get. I am who I am and the people that are close to me in life, that know me, know every aspect of me.”