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This one's a bit of a tearjerker guys. Although the video depicts a tribute to our fallen soldiers (among other scenes of dealing with loss), 'One Hell of An Amen' is apparently actually about a real-life friend of Brantley's and his lost battle with cancer.
If this doesn't make you as emotional as those Superbowl ads, you have a stone cold heart my friend (just kidding... sorta).
Check it out below. 'One Hell of An Amen' is the third single from Brantley's third studio album 'Just As I Am', and is currently at radio.
It's a pretty big long shot for people to make bets regarding celebrities. It's that whole getting noticed thing that can be tricky.
But for one lucky Brantley Gilbert fan they weren't just noticed by BG, they were acknowledged in a big way! Mr. Gilbert went above and beyond and made good on a bet for the fan so that they would win.
The bet? If he could score tickets to Brantley's concert their friend would have to quit dipping. And Brantley made sure they would they would win that bet by giving them tickets to the show. Pretty solid move there Brantley!
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There's been a whole lot written about Jason Aldean and Brittany Kerr's relationship and how it began as an affair, but could it be that there's another cheatin' heart story that's currently flying under the radar?
Ooh, plot twist!
We've all heard Brantley Gilbert and his fiancée Amber's crazy romantic love story that sounds like it was plucked straight from a Hollywood movie: Girl and boy fall for each other, girl and boy break up, boy goes on to become a famous singer/songwriter and writes a bunch of songs about girl, boy comes to his senses and wins girl back, boy puts a ring on it and they all live happily ever after.
Unfortunately, it sounds like there may be one step that's been left out of the retelling of the cute couple's love story... a divorce and claims of infidelity.
Yikes!
According to Radar Online, Amber was married (is still married?) to a guy named Brock Anderson at the time that she and Brantley rekindled their relationship. According to the usual "source," the pair married back in 2012 and began having trouble late in 2013. Amber started spending more time with her family and sometime earlier this year told her husband that she was going to the grocery store and just never came back.
Now that's an interesting exit strategy.
In March, Amber filed divorce papers and Brock ended up countersuing on the grounds of adultery.
It's not mentioned if anyone was named as the other man in the divorce documents, but according to the unnamed source, Amber's husband guessed who Brantley's new fiancée was before her name ever became public.
The pal says, “I remember when Brantley announced in October that he was engaged to a then-unnamed schoolteacher.
“We all thought how wild it would be if it turned out to be Amber – and Brock said, ‘I’m pretty sure it is her’.”
Yep, there's gotta be a country song in this story somewhere.
Update: A reader emailed and pointed me in the direction of a sort of funny (in a sweet way) new interview Brantley gave with US 103.5 that was posted today where the singer gives a very, very specific date as to when he got back in touch with Amber. In fact, the date of first contact and the date of first meeting up with her is important enough that he gives both. He says he found out that Amber wanted to reconnect with him on June 15. He says he was so excited to meet back up with her that he drove right over to see her for the very first time the next day, June 16. Did you catch that? It was June 15 and 16.
See, he's not a homewrecker at all. Not that anyone actually cared if he was or not.
In fact, I'm actually surprised at how little people care about this story, but it's sweet that Brantley wants to be sure that everyone knows that he didn't reconnect with his lady love until a full month after she had filed divorce papers.
No worries, Brantley. We all still think your love story - that re-started on June 15thand 16th - is very romantic and sweet. Go forth and marry and be happy.
Well...Brantley Gilbert will tie the knot with his fiancée, Georgia school teacher Amber Cochran, at the end of June 2015.
He revealed the date backstage at the American Music Awards Sunday night after winning Country Album of The Year. Geez...he sure has a lot to celebrate!
Brantley and Amber met 10 years ago, and were together for five years before splitting up. They reconnected after Brantley cleaned up his life...(aka...got sober)
He says, "I had some things going on in my life that she wasn't really willing to be a part of. I understand that completely now, and I'm so, so thankful that that was the way it was."
Brantley has said Amber inspired several of his hit songs, including "More than Miles." Amber was with Brantley at the AMAs Sunday night.
Hey guys...let me know if you need my address for a wedding invite!
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Just days after Garth called YouTube the devil for the way they compensate artists, music bigwigs are now starting to jump on the YouTube-is-bad bandwagon by asking that their music be removed from the video streaming site.
According to Mashable, Irving Azoff, founder of Global Music Rights, has asked YouTube to remove songs from his clients, including Pharrell Williams, John Lennon and the Eagles.
Unfortunately, I have a feeling this is just the start.
Now Sony is questioning the whole "freemium" music streaming system and will probably be the next to start yanking music from the various music sites.
You know, it probably won't be a popular opinion, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for the record labels and artists fighting this fight. To me it just makes them all sound so dang money hungry. Maybe when Taylor Swift isn't able to pay 17 million dollars cash for her vacation homes I'll be a little more sympathetic.
Well, looks like two more mega country super stars are putting a dog in the fight against Spotify. Brantley Gilbert and Justin Moore have decided to join Taylor Swift and Jason Aldean in removing their music from the company.
Oh my. Between all this and Garth Brooks doing his own thing with Ghost Tunes, Spotify is missing some big hitters with new music. Notable mention should be that Big Machine Records has the majority of artists taking their music off so far.
Wonder who will follow suit next?
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Thanks to a tip from a reader and the fine folks over at Headline Country, we now have our first look at Brantley Gilbert's mysterious new fiancée. I'm told her name is Amber Cochran.
Lucky us, we also have a picture of the rock that the future Mrs. Gilbert is sporting. Check it out.
Nice!
You can check out a quick 20-second clip of the lovebirds being interviewed together for the first time over on Headline Country, and I will keep my eyes open to when and if a longer version gets posted anytime soon.
While browsing CMA Awards photos to see if Brantley Gilbert maybe brought his new fiancée to the show (I don't think he did), I came across this picture of Big Machine's CMA Awards party.
My first thought when I saw Brantley sitting smack dab in the middle with no one within arm's reach except maybe Borchetta directly behind him was, "What, did he smell bad?"
I don't actually think Brantley smells bad, my brain just works like a 12-year-old boy's sometimes.
Earlier this week, Kenny Chesney revealed the first details surrounding the biggest tour of his career -- one that would change from market to market to reflect the hardest-hitting bill for each city. Anticipation hit a record high with the news that Jason Aldean would unite with Chesney for a 10-city stadium jaunt –merging his Burn It Down Tour with The Big Revival Tour. There are very few acts who could match the velocity Aldean is known to bring, so for that very reason Chesney tapped Brantley Gilbert to add to the pairing with more on-sale information and special guests will be revealed over the coming weeks.
“When you co-headline a tour with Jason Aldean, you’ve gotta get someone who can hold their own to go in front,” Chesney says. “When I looked around, for those stadium shows that Brantley’s part of, he’s the man for the job. He knows how to reach the crowd, how to make them rock – and he’s not afraid to push the rest of us.”
Gilbert has had three #1s on his own – “Country Must Be Country Wide,” “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” and “Bottoms Up” – as well as co-writing Aldean’s CMA Song of the Year nominated “Dirt Road Anthem” and sole writer of “My Kind of Party.” He has mined platinum with Halfway To Heaven and gold with his recent #1, Just As I Am, and is the Academy of Country Music’s reigning Top New Artist.
“As a fan, when I go to a show, I want the music to hit me in the chest and make me feel something all night long,” says Chesney, the 4-time Country Music Association and 4 consecutive Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year. “I want to have the time of my life, for the fans to hit every possible emotion – and make me feel everything humanly possible. When we started looking at acts to take out in 2015, especially having been off the road this year, I wanted to make sure the people that I brought were gonna be as committed to reaching the fans in the back of the stadium as I am.”
Chesney, whose The Big Revival marked his 13th No. 1 Country Album debut, already topped the Billboard Country Songs chart for two weeks with “American Kids” -- and “Til It’s Gone,” the follow-up, is currently at No. 17 with a bullet.
Chesney’s 55-date The Big Revival Tour is slated to kick-off on his birthday, March 26, in Nashville. Having staged “a stadium show on the beach” with his 40,000+ Flora-Bama-Jama free show in August, the man The Wall Street Journal called “The King of The Road” is ready to get out there and see how far he can push his always high energy concerts.
The Big Revival Tour is presented by Corona Light.
I interviewed Brantley Gilbert back in 2011, when he re-released "Halfway To Heaven" with 3 new tracks. He told me back then that the 3 added tracks were all about his fiancee. So add "Hell on an Angel" to the list of songs he penned about his bride-to-be.
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