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Brantley Gilbert: ‘The Two Things That Really Can Make Me Cry’

Brantley Gilbert just welcomed his baby girl, Braylen Hendrix, to the world. And no matter how tough you might think Brantley is, he says, “Two things that really can make…

What Rips Brantley Gilbert Up
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Brantley Gilbert just welcomed his baby girl, Braylen Hendrix, to the world. And no matter how tough you might think Brantley is, he says, “Two things that really can make me cry in this world, and that’s my two youngins.”

He says, “Every time I leave the house, [Barrett]’s figured out now when that’s happening. He fights sleep a little bit harder.”

Brantley's toddler boy Barrett actually loves dad’s bus, which is parked at home when he’s not on the road, and they’ll visit it once a day and let Barrett jump around and be a little rambunctious boy. “But,” Gilbert says, “if I take stuff up there he kinda starts figuring it out a little bit. I don’t think he’s to the point where he knows exactly what’s going on but I think, you know, he’s got an idea that something’s gonna be different tomorrow.”

Brantley continues, “He doesn’t really like it when I get in my truck and go places. But when I load up on that bus, he knows it’s going to be for a minute. And man, he like grab my leg and, you know, just, ‘Da-Da,’ and aw man. Dude, it ripped me up. That’s my little man.“

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.