Brantley Gilbert‘s latest song, What Happens in a Small Town,” is about the inability to escape your ex when you break up with them in a small town. Although Brantley is married to Amber, the love of his life, now, he admits that a lot of the inspiration for this song came from when they were dating and had split up. Brantley stayed living in Commerce, Georgia where Amber lived and he says there were plenty of places that reminded him of her. “Well for sure. I think the church we met at was that way anytime I was in Commerce,” says Brantley.
Plus, Brantley had his ways of keeping tabs on her because he says, “She’s a teacher and she taught at Jefferson, where I went to high school, and my mom was working there at the time. So it was like we didn’t see or speak to each other for five years but I knew where she was and what she was up to.
But Brantley admits his friends and family tried not to stir up his emotions by giving him updates on Amber. He says, “Just nobody would ever tell me much.”
Fortunately, Brantley and Amber were able to figure out their relationship, and they just celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary. They have a 20-month-old son Barrett and a baby girl on the way this fall.
Brantley Gilbert – places remind him of Amber :18
“Well for sure. I think the church we met at was that way anytime I was in Commerce. But then she’s a teacher and she taught at Jefferson, where I went to high school, and my mom was working there at the time. So it was like we didn’t see or speak to each other for five years but I knew where she was and what she was up to, and just nobody would ever tell me much.”