Brantley Gilbert is an incredibly prolific songwriter, having written or co-written 25 of the 26 songs on his latest album, The Devil Don’t Sleep, with the one song he didn’t write being a Hank Williams, Jr. cover.  One reason Brantley always has a plethora of quality songs to choose from when he’s recording is because he says, “We don’t write throwaways.  And this is something I’ve always been all about and I think the majority of the people that have written with me over the past, I’d say five years will tell you, if we get a verse and a line into the chorus and I’m not feeling it’s just done. If it’s not good it’s not good. But if I’m feeling something we’re gonna rock that thing on through, I don’t care if it takes 10 hours or 10 weeks for 10 months. You know we’ll figure it out.  We’ll make it right.”

Sometimes Brantley will write songs that are good, but perhaps better suited for someone else to record, so he’ll pass them on, but other songs he writes are so personal and such a reflection of his life story that he’d never let them go, like his latest single, “The Ones That Like Me.”

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“That’s one of the upsides to writing with the writers that I write with is we don’t write throwaways.  And this is something I’ve always been all about and I think the majority of the people that have written with me over the past, I’d say five years will tell you, if we get a verse and a line into the chorus and I’m not feeling it’s just done. If it’s not good it’s not good. But if I’m feeling something we’re gonna rock that thing on through, I don’t care if it takes 10 hours or 10 weeks for 10 months. You know we’ll figure it out.  We’ll make it right.”