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1	Brantley Gilbert (born January 20, 1985 in Jefferson, Georgia) is an American country rock music singer-songwriter. After having modest commercial success in 2009 and 2010 with a pair of albums released on Average Joes Entertainment, Gilbert was picked up by juggernaut Creator/BigMachineRecords, who re-released the second Average Joes album. The re-release earned a platinum certification on the heels of its pair of lead singles, "Country Must Be Country Wide" and "You Don't Know Her Like I Do". Two more albums have followed on Big Machine: 2014's ''Just as I Am'' produced his biggest hit to date in "Bottoms Up", along with the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover "Small Town Throwdown" (featuring labelmates Music/ThomasRhett and Justin Moore), and "One Hell of an Amen". 2017 saw the release of ''The Devil Don't Sleep''.
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3	Gilbert is known for his hard rock-influenced brand of country, which combined with his rural partying themed lyrics, has caused some of his material to fall under the label of "bro-country". His catalog also includes several impassioned ballads such as "More Than Miles" and "One Hell of an Amen".
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5	!Albums
6	* ''Modern Day Prodigal Son'' (2009)
7	* ''Halfway to Heaven'' (2010, re-released 2011)
8	* ''Just as I Am'' (2014)
9	* ''The Devil Don't Sleep'' (2017)
10	* ''Fire & Brimstone'' (2019)
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12	!Tropes present:
13	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Music/JasonAldean is this to Brantley, having turned two of Brantley's failed singles into massive hits.
14	* CountryRap: He did co-write "Dirt Road Anthem" with Colt Ford.
15	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The difference in style between his first album and his second, let alone anything he's done since, is jarring. For one, it's missing the deep gravel that he's become known for, with a more traditional male country artist sound. For another, half the album is acoustic ballads. It's hard to imagine him releasing something like "Whenever We're Alone" today.
16	* FakeOutFadeOut: "You Don't Know Her Like I Do" seems to end, then launches into a minute-long coda (which is removed from the radio edit).
17	* HeavyMeta:
18	** "Country Must Be Country Wide" is about breaking down stereotypes.
19	** "The Worst Country Song of All Time", featuring Music/TobyKeith and HARDY, drops BlatantLies about the genre's archetypes to declare itself the "worst" country song.
20	* InVinoVeritas: "Stone Cold Sober," in which he tells a woman he loves her, wakes up hungover...and realizes simultaneously that he meant it and she's not there, meaning she probably didn't believe him.
21	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: "Small Town Throwdown" has Music/ThomasRhett ''and'' Music/JustinMoore, both of whom are labelmates.
22	* NotSoDifferentRemark: The theme of "Country Must Be Country Wide" is that the country fanbase is not entirely limited to the South.
23	* RereleaseTheSong: He originally released "Kick It in the Sticks" in 2010 on Average Joes, and Big Machine re-released it two years later.
24	* RhymingWithItself: The chorus of "Bottoms Up" rhymes "up" with "up".
25	* ShoutOut:
26	** "Country Music Be Country Wide" name drops a bunch of classic country singers like Chris [=LeDoux=], Music/JohnnyCash, Music/HankWilliams, Music/WillieNelson, and Music/WaylonJennings.
27	** "My Baby's Guns N' Roses" is chock-full of shout-outs to...well, [[Music/GunsNRoses guess]].
28	* SymbolicBaptism: "Three Feet of Water" is a baptism-themed song. Co-writer Music/CledusTJudd wrote it about his own real-life baptism.

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