Brantley Gilbert Talks Five Years of Sobriety, New Music

Celebrating a huge life milestone in December and releasing a new record in January, Gilbert is about to be quite the happy man for the next few months.

Written by Kelly Brickey
Brantley Gilbert Talks Five Years of Sobriety, New Music
Brantley Gilbert; Artist publicity photo

Country artist Brantley Gilbert has a lot to look forward both at the end of this year as well as carrying on into 2017. With a new album set to release featuring his current single, “The Weekend,” Gilbert is also planning for a huge anniversary: his fifth year of sobriety.

While people may confuse Brantley’s rugged exterior with partying ways, the country singer will celebrate five years without alcohol on December 18. Rather than find his strength within the negativity in life, he focuses on his relationship with faith to get him through any rough patches he encounters.

“There was a time in my life where I think I had a misconstrued meaning of what tough was. December 18 will be five years alcohol-free. Alcohol-free is a big thing for me. I think since then I don’t find myself in very many situations where I need my fists as much. It’s more about being spiritually tough and morally tough for myself and the people around me,” he said during an interview with Nash Country Daily.

Celebrating his sobriety with what he knows how to do best, Gilbert will release his fourth studio album, The Devil Don’t Sleep, which follows up the success of his release back in 2014. As with many musicians and artists, Gilbert wants to use this project as just another step along his career path and define his life story through the new sounds he’s created.

“All of my records are chapters of my life. They always cover the good the bad and ugly. With this one [The Devil Don’t Sleep], I kept waiting on the ugly. In the past, my life has been a constant cycle of doing really well and then straight to rock bottom. For some reason my rock bottom has a shovel at the bottom of it [laughs]. I don’t understand. It’s kind of a constant cycle. But with this [album] it was really interesting because I really was waiting on more of the ugly—which is a terrible way to live waiting on something terrible to happen. But getting back with my wife and being married and that whole chapter of my life is really a lot of good. It’s been an extremely blessed chapter of my life. Probably the most blessed chapters that I can think of,” he said.

Gilbert’s album, The Devil Don’t Sleep, will be released in January of 2017. Fans can listen to “The Weekend” off of the record on streaming services now.