Gilbert’s landmark record Just As I Am clinched the 2014 American Music Award for Favorite Country Album. 1 hits punctuate his career: “Country Must be Country Wide,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do,” CMA Awards Song of the Year nominee “Red Dirt Anthem,” “My Kinda Party,” “Bottoms Up,” “One Hell of an Amen,” and “What Happens In A Small Town,” featuring Lindsay Ell. They see themselves.Īs a country artist with back-to-back platinum albums, Gilbert has clearly struck a nerve. They call themselves the BG Nation, and when the BG Nation watches Gilbert on a stage, they don’t just see a star. The guy who started as the defiant life-of-the-party can still go till sunrise, but he’s also emerged as something far greater: the leader of a massive tribe of hard-working, fun-loving believers for whom electric guitar-shredding, rapping, and twang can go hand-in-hand-in-hand. Gilbert’s home in Maysville, Georgia, reflecting on the singular path he’s taken to Fire & Brimstone, his fifth album released October 4, 2019, via the Valory Music Co. “Music’s supposed to be a safe place for all things.” “Bleeding all over a piece of paper and wearing your heart on your sleeve: Music is the truest form of expression outside of prayer,” Gilbert says. But he’s also seen poetry where others only saw weeds and broken glass, and resurrected faith after some declared it’d flatlined. He’s gone too fast, stayed too late, and knocked out lights. Brantley Gilbert has been in a little trouble.

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