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He was frankly miserable.

鈥淚 would rather have the dry heat than the humidity,鈥� Gilbert said. 鈥淭hat to me is worse than the dry heat up there. I can get a good tan.鈥�

It might be raining in Georgia, but in 蜜柚直播, summer is starting to settle in for the long haul.

鈥淵鈥檃ll people love country music and we love bringing鈥� it to you,鈥� the Southern-rocking singer said of his concert Thursday, June 14, at the AVA at Casino del Sol, on a day when the mercury could bust a vein at 103.

鈥淚t鈥檚 going to be high energy. It鈥檚 a party,鈥� he added in a thick Georgia accent. 鈥淭ell everybody to bring a seatbelt and change of clothes 鈥檆ause it鈥檚 going to get wild.鈥�

If you were among the 16,000 people who saw him in one of his earliest 蜜柚直播 shows 鈥� opening for Jason Aldean at Country Thunder in 2011 鈥� or the even bigger audience when he returned as a headliner two years later, you probably remember how wild it got, especially when Gilbert jumped off the stage and into the crowd, leaving his security detail scrambling to keep up.

鈥淲e try to put on the same show every night whether it鈥檚 for five people or 50 people; we鈥檙e going to bring everything we got,鈥� the 33-year-old said.

Gilbert, who wrote songs for artists including Jason Aldean (鈥淢y Kinda Party,鈥� 鈥淒irt Road Anthem鈥�), was pounding the club circuit in Nashville and beyond, building a name for himself. With the release of his indie debut album 鈥淢odern Day Prodigal Son鈥� in 2009, he started touring more broadly, criss-crossing the region and the country.

鈥淭hrough the years, we toured smaller markets and kind of built up one market until it could pay us enough gas money to get to the next one,鈥� he said.

Aldean repaid the favor of the songs 鈥� both topped the charts and propelled his 2010 album 鈥淢y Kinda Party鈥� to triple-platinum (3 million-plus) sales 鈥� by taking Gilbert with him on tour in 2011 including a stop at Country Thunder in Florence. He also went on the road with Eric Church and others and continued playing the theater and small shed shows that were starting to create a buzz.

When he circled back to a market, Gilbert started finding audiences singing along. That鈥檚 when he knew 鈥渨e had something to work with,鈥� he said.

鈥淚t was kind of a steady climb,鈥� he said of where his career is and where it is headed. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know if there ever was a moment that it just hit me and I was like, 鈥極h, we made it.鈥� And to be honest with you, even looking back now with where we are now, I won鈥檛 ever tell anybody that we made it. I feel like that takes away some motivation and drive. There鈥檚 always some steps you can take forward and some things we can do better and different.鈥�

One of things he鈥檚 doing differently these days is curbing his adult language. It鈥檚 a happy side effect of becoming a father six months ago, he said.

鈥淏elieve it or not, I try to watch my mouth a little bit. His mama stays on me pretty good so I catch myself,鈥� said Gilbert, who calls having his son 鈥渄efinitely the coolest thing I鈥檝e ever done.鈥�

Gilbert brings wife Amber and son Barrett on the road with him. When the baby gets fussy, Gilbert knows exactly how to calm him.

鈥淚 can usually sing to him, calm him down a little bit,鈥� said Gilbert, who sings everything from classic country to hymns to his son. 鈥淟ast night, it was a song called 鈥楻ed On A Rose鈥� by Alan Jackson. That and 鈥楬umble and Kind鈥� by Tim McGraw.鈥�