Brantley Gilbert enjoys recording fun party songs, but he says it’s the reaction he gets to songs like his current single, “One Hell of an Amen,” that makes all of his songwriting worth it. “Havin’ people come up to you and our supporters come up to me and say, you know, ‘This song helped me get through Iraq’ or ‘This motivated me to go get my girl back’ or ‘helped me cope with the loss of a family member or close friend,’ that’s what really makes all this worth it.”

Brantley only records songs that he helped write, that speak his truth and tell his story and he says, “Of course it’s expression, that’s cliché, everybody knows that. But for me, as well as therapy, these songs are actually changin’ people’s lives, and that’s definitely music in a whole for me. That’s what it’s all about.”

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“Havin’ people come up to you and our supporters come up to me and say, you know, ‘This song helped me get through Iraq’ or ‘This song motivated me to go get my girl back’ or ‘helped me cope with the loss of a family member or close friend,’ that’s what really makes all this worth it, if you think about it. And get down to thinkin’ about just the music, yeah, of course it’s expression, that’s cliché, everybody knows that. But for me, as well as therapy, these songs are actually changin’ people’s lives, and that’s definitely music in a whole for me. That’s what it’s all about.”

WHAT HE’S DOING THIS WEEK – JANUARY 5, 2015 – MONDAY 

Brantley Gilbert ended 2014 last week with a live performance on ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve With Ryan Seacrest. Also, his song “Bottoms Up” was named number one on Touch Tunes top played song in 2014 on jukeboxes all over the country. Gilbert s off the road for now but his latest single “One Hell Of An Amen” is making its way up the country charts this week.

BRANTLEY GILBERT – THE FACTS

BIRTH DATE: January 20, 1985 (He’s 29)

HOMETOWN: Jefferson, Georgia

PARENTS: Becky Gilbert

DEBUT SINGLE VALORY: “Kick It In The Sticks” – 2010

DEBUT ALBUM: Modern Day Prodigal Son – 2009

CURRENT ALBUM: Just As I Am –  RELEASED: May 19, 2014

CURRENT SINGLE:  “One Hell Of An Amen” sits in the Top 40 on Mediabase this week.

GRAND OLE OPRY DEBUT: August 2012

CURRENT TOUR: His own “Let It Ride Tour”

LATEST MUSIC VIDEO – 2014 – “One Hell Of An Amen”

RECENT TWEETS:

Not much of a tweeter, Gilbert hasn’t been on social media since mid-December.

BRANTLEY GILBERT – AWARD WINS

2012 – American Country Awards – Breakthrough Artist Single of the Year (“You Don’t Know Her Like I Do”)

2013 – CRS New Faces

2013 – Country Music Awards – CMA Triple Play Award – “Country Must Be Country Wide,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” & “Dirt Road Anthem”

2013 – Academy Of Country Music Awards – Top New Male Artist

2014 – American Music Awards – Favorite Country Album – Brantley Gilbert – Just As I Am