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Brantley Gilbert Credits Keith Urban For Helping Him Get Sober

Brantley Gilbert recently had a number one hit duet with Lindsay Ell “What Happens In A Small Town” and it got him thinking about being in the place he is…

Brantley Gilbert Credits Keith Urban For Helping Him Get Sober
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Brantley Gilbert recently had a number one hit duet with Lindsay Ell "What Happens In A Small Town" and it got him thinking about being in the place he is now in life.

He began looking back on the people who have supported him and given him chances throughout his career. He told us, “Keith Urban became a friend of mine in a time when I was making a transition in life. I honestly don’t know if I’d be sitting in this room if it weren’t for that man, and him taking time out of his life to come talk to me.”

Urban got clean from drugs and alcohol after his third trip to rehab, in 2006, and since then he has paid it forward. Brantley says when Keith reached out to him, “It was a time when I’d stopped drinkin’ and stopped doing some other things, and was just kind of unsure about moving forward, and he, again, took time out of his life and talked to me, and I’ll never forget that as long as I live. So that just wasn’t in music, it was in life.”

December 2019 marked Brantley’s eight-year anniversary of being alcohol and opiate free.

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.