You Promised Commentary

You wrote or co-wrote 25 of the 26 songs On this album, some of them deeply, Deeply personal. And just talk to me about being willing to Kind of put your heart and soul out there, Put your emotions on the line, a-and just Truly give yourself that much to your fans. My favorite part of my job is that I Am and I get to be that what you See is what you get guy. I don't have to keep up with a story. I don't have to tell lies. I don't You know, I feel like my story Is interesting enough as it is. And the reason I take so long in between Records, My records are chapters of my life, every one To this point. Now, I, I can't speak for The next one, 'cause I don't know what the Next chapter of my life holds. And, you know, I've always wanted to kind of Go back and, uh, and retrace some steps and, And address some memories from the way I see Things now, uh, looking back on decisions I made. Not that I would change them, but just from A reflecting perspective, I guess you could say. But it, it is all about being in a Room with somebody and, and telling stories or, Or And I guess embracing emotions and expressing those Things through words and melodies. I, I feel like songwriting is the truest form Of expression outside of prayer. And to be able to sit in a room With one, two, three people and have them learn Things about you, 'cause I'm extremely selfish as a Songwriter, uh, and with my records. If, if it's not about me or somebody very Close to me, I don't write songs about things I hadn't been through, because I just, I feel like they come across as insincere, And I feel like listeners pick up on that. But to share parts of my life with other People and, and put those stories to a melody, What I've found is that the songs that are More personal to me resonate better with people. If I try to write a broad, general, marketable, It's never worked out well for me. And I mean, there are writers who can say, "I'm gonna write a number one song today," you Know, and it happened. I, I'm not that guy. I take time in Between records because I wanna be able to I Wanna make sure I say what I need to, Or my, my co-writers and I say what we Need to. Well, I think when your fans hear This album, they're gonna feel like it was worth The wait. And this is the last demo that's On the deluxe version of The Devil Don't Sleep. It's called You Promised, a very personal song from Brantley Gilbert on Big Machine Radio.