paroles de chanson The Ones That Like Me (Commentary) - Brantley Gilbert

That's Rockin' Chairs off Brantley Gilbert's brand-new album
"The Devil Don't Sleep", which is available now
We're actually talking to Brantley about the album and playing all the cuts
And I... I got to tell you, Brantley, you're giving your fans a hell of a lot of music
This is just a lot
And I know, for a while, I remember reading that you were actually kind of having writer's
Block or you were just kind of struggling with the creative
But obviously, the day I'm broken, it all came pouring out
So, I mean, just talk to me about the fact that
You managed to come up with more than enough material

Well, in the beginning, of course, you know this about me, too
I'm kind of... I'm a perfectionist when it comes to certain things, in a weird way
Yeah
You know, I'm obsessive-compulsive, but not in
This stuff can have a little bit of dust on it as long as it's the same distance apart from the next thing
You know what I mean?
Right

There's certain things
I'm really strange about certain things having to be a certain way
And it wasn't necessarily that we didn't have the song
We had plenty of songs to make a record all along
We could have put out a record a month after we put last one, yeah?
Oh, wow

It wasn't that we didn't have songs
It was... Do they tell the story? And do they tell it correctly? (Right)
Do they tell it truthfully? Do they cover the whole thing?
Is the... is there some extra stuff in there?
It's just good time and stuff on top of the story
Right

You know what I mean?
Do we cover everything we covered on the last record and then some?
Because honestly, when we go into making a record, I listen to all the past records
And... they all have a feeling at the end of them
And I... you know, it takes you on a little journey
Did this one do that? And it didn't, for me, at first

I mean, it took some arranging and rewriting
And when we start from a catalog of over 200 songs
Right
That's not counting the stuff that's just not finished
I mean, there are ideas that are just verses or verse choruses and things that are unfinished
That didn't fit the last record or the record before, the record before that
They're 10 years old
Wow

That may fit this one
There may be a verse chorus that lets write this verse
Let's write that chorus, here we go
Oh, well, there it is
You know what I mean? It's kind of like an "aha" moment (yes)
And that happened several times

And actually, by the end of it, when we really started putting it together and putting things
In order to tell the story
Sonically from song to song, thematically, we had more than we needed
Obviously, with 26 songs
Five of those are live recordings of songs that have been done in the past
But outside of that, I mean, we... we're talking 21 songs that hadn't been done before at all
And we had songs left over
I think we recorded five more in the studio
If not more, that we still didn't use
Well, I know you say this next song is kind of like you in a nutshell
It's called "The Ones That Like Me" on "Big Machine Radio"