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<p dir="auto"><strong><a title="Brantley Gilbert" href="https://countrymusicontour.com/brantley-gilbert-concert-tour-tickets/">Brantley Gilbert</a> World Premieres &#8220;The Weekend&#8221; on CMT </strong></p>
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<p dir="auto">Nashville, TN: Having just sold out two night&#8217;s at Denver&#8217;s legendary <a title="Red Rocks" href="https://ticketmaster.evyy.net/c/1224809/264167/4272?subId1=WPScmnbRedRocks&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2Fred-rocks-amphitheatre-tickets-morrison%2Fvenue%2F245763&partnerpropertyid=5213910&MediaPartnerPropertyId=5213910">Red Rocks</a> Amphitheater, as well as key amphitheaters in the heartland including 14,806 at Detroit&#8217;s DTE Energy Music Theatre and 15,038 at Cincinnati&#8217;s Riverbend Amphitheater, the wildly intense <a title="Brantley Gilbert" href="https://countrymusicontour.com/brantley-gilbert-concert-tour-tickets/">Brantley Gilbert</a> gears up for the release of</p>
<p dir="auto"><i><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3706" src="http://www.countrymusicnewsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/brantley-gilbert2.jpg" alt="brantley-gilbert2" width="180" height="147" />The Devil Don&#8217;t Sleep</i> with a World Premiere of &#8220;The Weekend&#8221; on CMT: Country Music Television&#8217;s &#8220;Hot 20&#8221; <i>this weekend</i> Oct. 29-30.</p>
<p dir="auto">&#8220;We&#8217;re getting ready for the next phase,&#8221; says one of the rare country artists with back-to-back certified platinum releases for his <i>Halfway To Heaven</i> and <i>Just As I Am</i>. &#8220;There&#8217;s new music coming, in a very different way than people expect from us. But one thing we&#8217;re not gonna lose is the real life &#8211; and some of the real fun you can have &#8211; in this music. That&#8217;s what I love about this clip: it&#8217;s a lot of pieces of who I am.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="auto">Starting with Gilbert trying, badly, to fix an old Cougar &#8211; and needing to abandon the job to get on the bus, the Shane Drake-directed clip captures Gilbert out on this summer&#8217;s sold-out Take It Outside Tour, his dynamic with his lovely wife Amber, dealing with frustration, tearing it up with the band in an all-terrain vehicle rich and finding a party he can both crash and loosen up. Admitting to his new friends he&#8217;s a lousy mechanic, longtime collaborator Drake creates a surprise ending that&#8217;s not so far from the truth.</p>
<p dir="auto">&#8220;This isn&#8217;t that far off,&#8221; admits the man whose launched six #1s including the CMA Single of the Year nominee &#8220;Dirt Road Anthem,&#8221; as well his own &#8220;Country Must Be Country Wide,&#8221; &#8220;You Don&#8217;t Know Her Like I Do&#8221; and One Hell of an Amen&#8221; among others. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a great mechanic&#8230; and I <i>do </i>love that old Cougar <i>and</i> <i>my wife</i>. To mix it all up like this, and kinda make it about what every guy wants and get frustrated about? Well, that&#8217;s pretty much here.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="auto">With the heavy guitar thumper &#8220;It&#8217;s About To Get Dirty&#8221; featured in &#8220;Madden 17,&#8221; the latest in the series of high impact football video games, the Georgia native is keeping a strong emphasis on keeping the hard rock in his country for his upcoming project &#8211; due in early 2017. Working like twin engines, &#8220;The Weekend&#8221; reinforces the real world good time out in the sticks ethos that has defined the &#8220;Bottoms Up&#8221; artist since he released his first self-financed <i>Modern Day Prodigal Son</i> just out of his teens.</p>
<p dir="auto">&#8220;Boys get older, but not much changes,&#8221; he says with a laugh. &#8220;I was raised to work hard, but we also learned to play hard. You know, that&#8217;s the deal&#8230; When you give it all, you wanna take it back just as hard when you clock out. And if you&#8217;re not having fun, you&#8217;re not all in with your life, you&#8217;re missing the point. That&#8217;s why the shows are so intense, and the songs are so all in. And CMT debuting &#8216;The Weekend,&#8217; well, that&#8217;s just the best party invite I can think of&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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Brantley Gilbert World Premieres "The Weekend" on CMT "Hot 20"
