After all the presents are unwrapped on Christmas Day, it’s time to think ahead to the new year. And for country stars like Brantley Gilbert, that means setting some career goals.
“We’ll be working on a new record,” the singer tells his label, explaining that he’s kicking that process off with a songwriting trip to Texas in February.
If it seems like Brantley just released a new album, it’s because he did — So Help Me God came out in November. But he’s wasting no time on moving on to the next project. “I’m always working on what’s next,” the singer explains. “There’s a lot in front of us. I got a lot of work to do.”
Also hoping to accomplish some new goals in 2023 is Justin Moore, who’s got his sights set on international travel.
“We would love to go to Europe. We’ve never been over there,” the singer reveals, explaining that he got the travel bug after hearing about a friend’s vacation in Italy.
“Just seeing the pictures and hearing the stories, the fact that that stuff is so much older than anything here, it’s kind of amazing,” Justin continues.
But not everyone is eager to leave 2022 in the rearview mirror just yet. Sugarland member Kristian Bush says he’s enjoying the period between holidays.
“I like this kind of empty space between Christmas and New Year’s. It’s a time for me to, like, sit down and kind of look at all the things that I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I was gonna do that this year, right,’” he says.
His nostalgia serves an important purpose. “Inevitably, I always write songs during that time that are really special to me,” Kristian adds.
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