

That run will be interrupted for Gilbert to Queensland, Australia for the CMC Rocks QLD at Willowbank Raceway on March 12. The Georgia-born, -bred and –raised songwriter hits the U.S., starting January 28 in Saginaw, Michigan for 27 North American dates. I know where these songs came from, what they mean, how they played out – and that is how me and the boys try to bring’em.” “I don’t care what you call it, as long as you let me play it my way. “Music is music,” says the man who also wrote Jason Aldean’s chart-topping “Dirt Road Anthem” and “My Kinda Party” philosophically. An international run more favored by harder rock acts, Gilbert handily straddles the line. Kicking off November 11 at Melkweg in Amsterdam, the rough’n’raw songwriter who just hit #1 with the Gold-certified celebration of living – and dying – with valor “One Hell Of An Amen” will swing through Hamburg’s Fabrik, Munich’s Technikum and Stuttgart’s Im Wizemann before heading to Glasgow’s Oran Mor and a sweep through England’s Manchester Academy, the Birmingham Institute Library and London’s storied Shepard’s Bush Empire. That’s a universal thing, so let’s do it.” People around the world get the idea about what we do: these songs are about living life in hard places, but standing up when you do. “If you’re gonna push the music, don’t be afraid to put it out there.

“If you’re gonna take it on the road, do it,” the man who won last year’s American Music Award for Favorite Country Album explains. Instead, the renegade Country star is hitting the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia, in addition to playing arenas across Canada and the U.S. So when it comes to striking out on the road with his Black Out Tour, it figures the man with back-to-back platinum albums would never settle for North America. Brantley Gilbert’s always pushed the edge when it comes to music.
