Brantley Gilbert’s latest single, “One Hell of an Amen,” is definitely a much different vibe than his last #1 song, “Bottoms Up,” but he says they’re both very honest songs that represent his life. Brantley believes in reliving the moments his songs were written about each time he sings them on stage, which might seem emotionally exhausting, but he says, “All my songs are like a part of my life, they’re like a part of me. There’s good times and there’s hard times and there’s tryin’ times, there’s times when you’re in love, times when your heart’s broke. And when we go out on stage the show is an emotional roller coaster and it goes up and down. I go with it.”

Brantley says because he feels each song so personally, “I don’t have to really try to put on a show. These songs really do move me and when I sing ‘Bottoms Up’ I’m partying. I’m watchin’ all the people in the crowd singin’ it back and their havin’ a blast and they got their beers up, I’m all about it. When you sing (‘One Hell of an Amen’) you react to the audience, I think, but more than that you just sing the song and sing it the best way you know how. Make sure it sounds good, but feel it too.”

Brantley just wrapped up his second tour in Europe, as part of the C2C Country to Country Festival. He’ll be headlining the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo this Wednesday night.

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Brantley Gilbert – reliving songs live :57
“Anytime you write a song the right way you relive it every time you sing it. To me, I try to make songs as personal as I can. A song like, ‘Bottoms Up’, yah I’m not drinkin’ anymore but I’m around that environment almost every night of the week and I enjoy that environment, it’s a party. So, all my songs are like a part of my life, they’re like a part of me. There’s good times and there’s hard times and there’s tryin’ times, there’s times when you’re in love, times when your heart’s broke. And when we go out on stage the show is an emotional roller coaster and it goes up and down. I go with it. These songs, I don’t have to really try to put on a show, these songs really do move me and when I sing ‘Bottoms Up’ I’m partying. I’m watchin’ all the people in the crowd singin’ it back and their havin’ a blast and they got their beers up, I’m all about it. When you sing this song you react to the audience, I think, but more than that you just sing the song and sing it the best way you know how. Make sure it sounds good, but feel it too.”

WHAT HE’S DOING THIS WEEK – MARCH 9, 2015 – MONDAY 

Brantley Gilbert is returning home from shows in Europe this week. On Wednesday (3/11), Gilbert is in Texas playing a show at Rodeo Houston.

2015 IHEART RADIO MUSIC AWARDS

NOMINATION – Renegade Award – Brantley Gilbert

The 2015 iHeart Radio Music Awards will air live on NBC on March 29.

BRANTLEY GILBERT – THE FACTS

BIRTH DATE: January 20, 1985 (He’s 30)

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:

Brantley Gilbert @BrantleyGilbert · March 4
pumped to be nominated for the #iHeartAwards #RenegadeAward… Vote here or RT to vote http://bit.ly/iHRAwardsVote

Brantley Gilbert @BrantleyGilbert · March 2
BG NATION yall gotta carry the flag for all of country music..we are up for iHeart music’s RENEGADE award.. vote here http://news.iheart.com/features/iheartradio-music-awards-15

Brantley Gilbert @BrantleyGilbert · February 25
So when they tell you you’re not supposed to lay on your back…. https://instagram.com/p/ziWszxAmDf/

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