![]() This wasn’t music for thinking, it was music for escaping” and touring industry trade Pollstar echoed, “on a brief instrumental honky tonk interlude that allowed the five musicians backing Gilbert to show off their chops, the music was heavily country. The Reading Eagle wrote of opening night, “far from an outlier Gilbert stuck his microphone out for audience participation in nearly every song, and they were happy to oblige. This year’s show – with new music from his #1 all-genre Top 200 Selling Album THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP – has been striking a chord with his already passionate fanbase. You know, it’s why when we take it outside, it’s just good, and we have the party of the summer everywhere we go.” Festivals are just a party with a whole lotta music…There’s not much more real – or more like where I come from – than a fair… and those amphitheater shows, well, that’s where the BG Nation comes together to throw it down. “There are so many different ways to do this come warm weather,” Gilbert explains. Kicking off June 2 at Tampa’s MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheater, the next wave of the tour will focus on the Midwest, the Southeast and East Coast. The 26-date summer leg of THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP TOUR is a mixture of festivals, fairs and amphitheaters, mixing up the concert experience for the fans. “You almost can’t hold that energy in the building, but come summer – when we take it outside – it’s a whole other kind of deal when we get outside with the BG Nation.” “These shows in the arenas are so loud and so wild,” says the songwriter whose penned six #1s, including the CMA Song of the Year nominee “Dirt Road Anthem,” of the road. NASHVILLE, TN – With Brantley Gilbert’s THE DEVIL DON’T SLEEP TOUR crossing the Rust Belt and Heartland, the renegade country star turns to warmer weather – knowing when the cold temperatures burn off, he wants to be ready when the first leg of his high-impact tour wraps on April 29 in Duluth, MN. ![]() 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 Favourite Country Album.Amphitheaters, Festivals + Fairs as He Continues Taking It to the People 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.” “And anyone who knows me knows that every album is another chapter of my life. “A lot has happened,” marvels the man nominated for CMA Song of the Year for Jason Aldean’s signature Dirt Road Anthem. 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 AM considered 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. 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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