Like the rest of the music world, Brantley Gilbert has had to put his Fire’t Up Tour, named after his latest single, on pause because of the coronavirus. But under normal circumstances, when Brantley is touring and away from home for days at a time, he makes sure when he’s at home to spend quality time with his family, including no talking on or looking at his cell phone until everyone else, including his wife Amber, has gone to bed. Brantley says, “She knows if something’s pressing. Like, if I take a phone call, she knows it’s important.” But Brantley says, “Most of the time I head up to my office and I work from about 9:00 or 9:30 (pm) to 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, most of the time.”
Brantley actually prefers keeping later work hours because he says, “I can return emails and get a lot done. You know sometimes when you return emails and then somebody sends it directly back, so you feel like you can’t get caught up, that doesn’t happen to me. And if there’s ever anybody that’s been like texting me and getting on my nerves, that I don’t want to talk to that much, I’ll just light ‘em up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. Just text ‘em, ‘Hey, sorry, I just got to this. You know, blow ‘em up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. They’ll quit texting you.”
The take home message is, if Brantley Gilbert doesn’t text you back right away, it’s because he generally doesn’t answer of check his phone during the day, and if you don’t want him texting you at all hours of the night, don’t keep texting him when you don’t get an immediate response.
Brantley Gilbert – working at home :49
“She knows if something’s pressing. Like, if I take a phone call, she knows it’s important. But most of the time I head up to my office and I work from about 9:00 or 9:30 to 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning, most of the time, which is kind of a cool set up because I can return emails and get a lot done. You know sometimes when you return emails and then somebody sends it directly back, so you feel like you can’t get caught up, that doesn’t happen to me. And if there’s ever anybody that’s been like texting me and getting on my nerves, that I don’t want to talk to that much, I’ll just light ‘em up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. Just text ‘em, ‘Hey, sorry, I just got to this. You know, blow ‘em up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. They’ll quit texting you. So yeah, my business hours are really late but that does allow me during the day – you know, I get up about 10:00, and from 10:00 until 8:00 I’m right there and don’t answer the phone unless it’s absolutely, really important.”