Brantley Gilbert Tells Apple Music About Latest Album ‘So Help Me God,’ Writing “Heaven By Then,” Getting Sober and More.
Brantley Gilbert joins Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen for a charming and candid look at his latest album ‘So Help Me God.’ Gilbert shares the story of the late night karaoke outing with HARDY that lead to his collaboration with personal heroes Blake Shelton and Vince Gill on “Heaven By Then.” He and Kelleigh also dig into Gilbert’s journey through recovery from alcohol abuse and the inspiration for the album closer “So Help Me God.”
Tune in to Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country and listen to the episode in-full this Friday (December 2) at 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET or anytime on-demand at apple.co/_TodaysCountry.
“I’m a guy that says if I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it or die trying. And with alcohol, it got to a point with it where I knew it was something I needed to change and cut back on and I said, “You know what? This has a little more control over me than I like, and I just need to get it out of my life,” and couldn’t do it. Physically. That really frustrated me. Going in and being open to a different route of not being able to do it by myself was kind of humiliating and almost embarrassing to an extent, for about a split second. And then the thought was, “Dude, get it out of your life.” I wasn’t valuing or prioritizing the things in life that I was raised to value and prioritize. This chapter of my life, I didn’t plan on making it to 30, to be completely honest. I didn’t ever think I’d be married or have kids. Like, I wanted to be a biker.”
“One night, I’ll never forget, we had when “[Country Must Be] Country Wide” went number one, we threw a little celebration out on the road. Man, I kind of looked around and had this thought. It was like, “Man, we’re supposed to be celebrating something that an overwhelming majority of people that try to do something with music will never accomplish experience.” And we’re not really celebrating. We’re doing the same shit we do every night and it kind of got lost in… Just to getting wrapped into every day and every night being a party. I went back on in the back of the bus and called my… And that was literally a moment where I was like, “Hey man, let’s find some time and I need to do whatever it takes to get this junk out of my life.” That’s kind of where that started.”
Tune in to Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen on Apple Music Country and listen to the episode in-full this Friday (December 2) at 11am PT / 1pm CT / 2pm ET or anytime on-demand at apple.co/_TodaysCountry.
