It is he who perfected the checklist style of country songwriting before everyone else jumped on board. 24 – Greensboro, NC | Greensboro Coliseumįeb.You almost have to give Brantley Gilbert some credit, however begrudgingly. 18 – Florence, SC | Florence Civic Centerįeb. 16 – Glens Falls, NY | Glens Falls Civicįeb. 11 – Charleston, WV | Charleston Civic Centerįeb. 10 – Cape Girardeau, MO | Show Me Centerįeb. 3 – University Park, PA | Bryce Jordan Centerįeb 4 – Portland, ME | Cross Insurance Arenaįeb. See Gilbert Take This Music to the Road on his THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP TOUR:įeb. You know, depending on how deep you want to go, it’s a way to understand the journey to THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP.” But with these CDs, I feel like it’s the story and then more of the story. Sometimes you don’t even see it ‘til later. “What happens before influences what happens next. “Life isn’t just chapters,” explains the songwriter/rocker. Amongst the previously unreleased tracks to be included on THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP DELUXE are “You Promised,” with over 24 million YouTube views and “I’ve Been There Before.” ![]() And I wanted that on this record…”Īnd he’s also heard the fans, who keep asking for older songs that have never been available on record. ![]() We recorded live at Red Rocks at the end of the tour, and you can feel how hard they rocked. But then for the folks who really go deep, I wanted to give them a piece of the last year on the road. We tried every which way, but in the end, it seemed like we needed to do the straight-up record. Gilbert admits, “Trying to get the whole story on the album was a little more than we’d bargained for. Tapping into the outlier, the roughneck, the downhome and the downtrodden, the songwriter/rocker from Jefferson, Georgia tears music from actual life, Gilbert knows vigilance is required even in the best of times. The expanded package represents a fuller look into the hard-hitting songwriter’s journey to where he is now: one of four Country artists to mine back-to-back platinum albums for sticking to his unapologetically rock-country hybrid on Halfway To Heaven and Just As I Am, six #1s including Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem” and “My Kind of Party” and his own “Country Music Be Country Wide,” “Bottoms Up,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” and the deeply personal “One Hell Of An Amen,” two consecutive sold-out headlining tours and the love of the girl he lost along the way and the 2014 American Music Award for Favorite Country Album. For me, thankfully, I got through it, got the girl back, got to keep my career moving…”Īs a tortured soul trying to walk the straight and narrow but always feeling the pull of the devil’s right hand, THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP is supplemented with a Deluxe version that captures the roots of his songwriting and the essence of his blistering live shows. “But the truth is there’s always temptation, there’s always something – whether it’s work or substances or gambling or whatever – that can pull you off the path. “By now, everyone knows the story turned out okay for me,” laughs the man who sold out his entire BLACKOUT arena tour last winter, as well as his TAKE IT OUTSIDE amphitheater tour which closed with two nights at Red Rocks. As Gilbert is quick to point out, the songs offer a cautionary undertow because, as the title suggests, temptation is a nonstop reality – and people need vigilance to avoid backsliding into the very things that defeat them. Though “The Weekend” explodes as one of Gilbert’s industrial strength five o’clock Friday party anthems, THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP works a celebratory tip for other reasons. Even though it’s my life, even though some of what I write about is very specific to what happens to me, I think the challenges, the places where we figure things out are all the same – no matter what we’re facing, realizations all mean the same things.” “A lot has happened,” marvels the man nominated for CMA Song of the Year for Jason Aldean’s signature “Dirt Road Anthem.” “And anyone who knows me knows that every album is another chapter of my life. It’s a whole lot of music from Country music’s hardest hitting songwriter/artist. ![]() If HALFWAY TO HEAVEN was the story of a young man in the clutches of all it means to be wild, and JUST AS I AMconsidered the consequences of the life and the good times getting there, THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP marks the next phase of the working class Country icon in the making’s life. Nashville, TN (December 14, 2016) – For Brantley Gilbert, his back-to-back platinum success comes from writing about his life – and watching the people who live like he does respond.
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