When you listen to the songs on Brantley Gilbert’s albums, you’ll hear a mix of relationship songs, talking about everything from being in love to breaking up, to regret, to missing someone, to being by someone’s side for the rest of their life, and most, if not all, of those songs are about Brantley’s wife, Amber. Even though they’ve only been married for four years, their dating history goes back almost 15 years. “We were off and on for about five years and we were super young. And then we went five years without seeing or speaking to each other, and we’ve been back together now five or six,” explains Brantley.
Brantley admits that he often coped with the ups and downs of their relationship by writing songs about it, so he says, “She’s got a plethora of songs. She’s got love songs, old love songs, and she’s got some breakup songs and she’s frankly got some songs that are on the ‘never to be released album,’ that nobody will ever hear.”
In fact, Brantley’s current single, “What Happens in a Small Town,” which he sings with Lindsay Ell, was inspired by one of the “off again” periods he went through with Amber, back when they were dating. And while his next album, Fire and Brimstone, will feature several love songs, there are also some new break-up songs that were inspired by Brantley reminiscing about the road he and Amber took to get to where they are now, and he says, “I think it’s cool for us both to kind of see these things chronologically.”
Fire and Brimstone will be released on October 4th, but it is available for pre-order now on brantleygilbert.com.
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“Amber, I’ll say this, we do have a long history. We were off and on for about five years and we were super young. And then we went five years without seeing or speaking to each other, and we’ve been back together now five or six. But she’s got a plethora of songs. She’s got love songs, old love songs, and she’s got some breakup songs and she’s frankly got some songs that are on the ‘never to be released album,’ that nobody will ever hear. And then there’s the new ones. And I think it’s cool for us both to kind of see these things chronologically.”