When you listen to Brantley Gilbert’s latest song, “What Happens in a Small Town,” there are some killer guitar solos played by his duet partner, Lindsay Ell. Brantley wasn’t in the studio when Lindsay recorded her vocals and guitar parts, but he says when he first heard them, “I was stoked. I heard some of it, you know, over FaceTime, but when I actually got to hear it through good speakers it was … she killed it.”
When the idea first came up to make “What Happens in a Small Town” a duet, and Lindsay was suggested, Brantley says, “I knew she was going to kill it, but when her name came up the reason it was such a snap your fingers, like, ‘Oh that’s it, if she’ll do it, that’s the one’ [is because] a lot of folks have been doing the cross genre thing and there’ve been a lot of duets goin’ around, and it being my first one, it had to be the right person and had to be the right sound. She’s not just a pretty face. She’s not just a voice. She can shred, and she did her thing. It’s sick. I love it.”
Fans will be able to see Brantley and Lindsay performing the song live every night on Brantley’s Not Like Us Tour, which kicks off on June 20th.
Brantley Gilbert – Lindsay guitar on song :31
“I was stoked. I heard some of it, you know, over FaceTime, but when I actually got to hear it through good speakers it was … she killed it. I knew she was going to kill it, but when her name came up the reason it was such a snap your fingers, like, ‘Oh that’s it, if she’ll do it, that’s the one’ [is because] a lot of folks have been doing the cross genre thing and there’ve been a lot of duets goin’ around, and it being my first one, it had to be the right person and had to be the right sound. She’s not just a pretty face. She’s not just a voice. She can shred, and she did her thing. It’s sick. I love it.”