Brantley Gilbert at CMA Fest 2024

Brantley Gilbert is soon-to-be a father of three and could not be more excited to be blessed with another little one. While he and his wife, Amber, are keeping the gender a secret from the public for now, he did share that one of his kids had a less-than-desirable reaction to the news. “One of ‘em was really stoked and one of ‘em was not feeling it at all,” Brantley laughed, admitting his daughter was hoping for a girl and his son was rooting for a boy. Regardless of a boy or girl, Gilbert says he hopes his third child doesn’t have the level of attitude his daughter does. “It’s bad,” he said of his 4-year-old daughter’s sass. “She’s boujee, she’s gangster too all at the same time. There’s a little Al Capone in that child. … it’s something else,” he laughed. When asked about names, Gilbert said he doesn’t think his wife would ever let him name the baby, so that’ll be a secret for now too. While he’s keeping a lot under wraps for now, one thing that’s out in the open is news of a new song, “Over When We’re Sober” featuring Ashley Cooke, available June 21. Gilbert revealed the song was originally written by him and Jelly Roll for a different album but eventually found a home on Brantley’s forthcoming, 7th studio album. “We wrote it for an album that Jelly [Roll] and I were working on for a minute,” Gilbert shared with Audacy’s Katie Neal during an interview at Nashville’s Hard Rock Cafe during CMA Fest. “That wouldn’t have really been that good with me and him singing that to each other, you know?” He laughed before sharing he and Jelly’s writing sessions are quite a spectacle. “If there was a fly on the wall that could talk, we’d probably have to kill him,” he laughed. Jokes aside, Brantley says he was excited to present the song to Cooke, who he says slayed the vocals. “We took it to Ashley in studio and she knocked it out of the park. I’m really excited to work with her, she’s a rockstar.” The song will be the second taste of Brantley’s seventh studio album which he describes as being created with absolutely no rules. “All the rules are changing, which for us is a good thing,” he shared. “Well, there never really have been rules for us, but now there are less than there were … with this record, we really just let things be what they wanted to be, but we’ve got some solid country stuff on there.” To hear more about the music, family, and Jelly Roll writing session, check out Brantley Gilbert’s entire interview with Audacy’s Katie Neal above. Words by Monica Rivera Interview by Katie Neal