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Brantley Gilbert celebrates his 35th birthday today with a new tour on the road and a visit to the top of the country charts with the Lindsay Ell duet “What…

Brantley Gilbert Country Outlaw
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Brantley Gilbert celebrates his 35th birthday today with a new tour on the road and a visit to the top of the country charts with the Lindsay Ell duet "What Happens In A Small Town." Let's take a look at Brantley in the last couple of years.

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Luke Combs, Cole Swindell and Brantley Gilbert attend the ACM Lifting Lives TOPGOLF Tee-Off at Topgolf Las Vegas on April 14, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Brantley Gilbert (L) and Amber Cochran attend the 2018 CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena on June 6, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Amber Cochran and Brantley Gilbert attend the 66th Annual BMI Country Awards at BMI on November 13, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Brantley Gilbert and Amber Cochran attend the 52nd annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 14, 2018 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Brantley Gilbert performs onstage at ACM: Stories, Songs & Stars: A Songwriter's Event Benefiting ACM Lifting Lives on April 05, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Brantley Gilbert and Amber Cochran attend the 54th Academy Of Country Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 07, 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


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Brantley Gilbert and Amber Cochran attend the 2019 CMT Music Awards - Backstage & Audience at Bridgestone Arena on June 05, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Brantley Gilbert performs during halftime of the game between the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on October 14, 2019 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.


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Lindsay Ell and Brantley Gilbert attend the 53rd annual CMA Awards at the Music City Center on November 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Brantley Gilbert and Amber Gilbert attend Big Machine Label Group celebration of The 53rd Annual CMA Awards in Nashville at The Bell Tower on November 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - DECEMBER 04: Brantley Gilbert poses for a photo prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Burnouts on Broadway on December 04, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images)


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Brantley Gilbert poses for a photo prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Burnouts on Broadway on December 04, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.

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.