Brantley Gilbert

State: Georgia

One of only five Country artists to have back-to-back PLATINUM albums this century, Brantley Gilbert’s made a pummeling kind of Country that consolidated the outsiders, outliers and full-tilt life livers in a collective known as the BG Nation. The Georgia-born-and-bred songwriter/rocker has six No. 1s – “Country Must Be Country Wide,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do,” the CMA Awards Song of the Year nominee “Dirt Road Anthem,” “My Kinda Party,” “Bottoms Up” and “One Hell Of An Amen” – and the 2014 American Music Award for Favorite Country Album for JUST AS I AM to his credit. Following his highly-acclaimed GOLD-certified album THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP (The Valory Music Co.), Gilbert recently teamed up with Lindsay Ell on his new single “What Happens In A Small Town,” which is currently ascending at Country radio. But what separates Gilbert from the rest is his deep commitment to real people, vets, anyone who needs a little help. His hard-charging performances define country’s outlaw edge, what Entertainment Weekly hails for “his swaggering guitars, catchy hooks, and a DGAF attitude” and American Songwriter raves, “Gilbert never fails to deliver.”