Brantley Gilbert - Whats Left of A Small Town

[@TENoice44]

Gilchrist, Oregon. No stoplights. One school, k-12. Average graduating class is about 25. Gotta drive up the highway to the next town just to go to the grocery store. No strangers. Just a little market, post office, a couple little shops and of course... the mill. Little slice of heaven in the woods.

[@whiskeydrinker24]

I grew up in a town with no stoplights and I graduated with a class of 9. You definitely don't miss it until you aren't there anymore. I will always call it home

[@YargItsAPirate]

When i was younger, growing up in small town MA, i hated it. I didnt understand the values and pride that come with it. being a little older now, I love where im from, and man Im damn happy im not from the city. Its great to know all the officers, and to know most everyone. Proud to be from a small town, and God bless all the good old boys.

[@MrTrevorHobbs]

Hey, brother. It doesn't matter where you're from, 'cause country's a way of life. My best friend used to be the biggest city boy ever, and now he gets sick if he doesn't get a deer when huntin' season's open. All I had in my hometown were two stoplights (one of which got built a few years ago, yay!), a denim mill, school, a grocery store, and a shack that sold biscuits. As long as you're good to people, that's all it really takes.

[@AyshaDancer]

No stoplights, one building housed K-12 until about 13 years ago. Now we have K-8 and 9-12. Two restaurants, one gas station and a Dollar General. We're 15 minutes from the nearest actual grocery store and 20 from the nearest mall. I graduated in a class of 48. The current population is less than 800 and the nearest town has more cows than people. This is home, no matter where I roam.

[@toddschmidt7869]

im so glad to see yall small town folks we need more small town people so someday we can run this damn country right!

[@mouz15]

I live in a town where everybody knows everybody. We drop the tailgates down by the river on a sandbar every weekend and have ourselves a damn good time. Everyone's a friend around here and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm proud of this place. It's country at its best.

[@MichiganCountryLeo]

Pinckney, Michigan bigger than most small towns, small enough to love :)

[@MegaTwilight101]

Amen for small towns..makes me me love my town even more..Love you Lancaster Ohio.

[@BmJFord01]

You got that right bud, his older music Is alot better than his newer songs.

[@thomascopeland5111]

Shenandoah Va here. Maybe 1500 at most. One stoplight and nothing else. Left after high school for the Marine Corps and just happened to come back afterwards. It's home no doubt.

[@GoldenPig2012]

My hometown has two stoplights, 1 grocery store and I graduated with the biggest class ever - 50. I miss knowing everyone I saw, them knowing me. Hated it as a child trying to grow, miss it desperately as an adult longing for familiarity in a world grown too big.

[@sydneyd.herring3122]

It's songs like this that make me realise that I only have one childhood, and it's basically over at 16 years old... I wish I could've stayed in Texas, wear I was born, but moving around makes it hard to stay attached to one town. I wish more than anything I could've had a true country small-town childhood experience, but those days are gone and now I just have to look for new adventures to come my way, and hope I left good things in the people I've met in all my past adventures. :)

[@TylerB175]

im 17 and i was born and raised in a small town and i culdnt ask for anything better, i love it

[@bradypeterson8345]

Restore America to the way it used to be!!! Ron Paul 2012-2016

[@starcrosslover13]

i live in a small town no stop lights 2 bars a grocery store, a bank, library, post office, and one school, i know almost everyone here. i would never give up my small town for a big city.

[@redneksouthernbell]

Georgetown GA, Small Towns Are The Best. And I Love BG

[@shawn1993trooper]

i was born in a small town and still live in it. we dont have any stop lights but we do have 2 bars, 1 store, 1 gas station. and i will never live in a big city.

[@codydodd2462]

I’m from the same little town as Brantley and this makes the memories flood in. From the old jefferson mills to Potts farm. Love my little town. We are proud of you Brantley

[@gravestrat]

@GoldenPig2012 I feel you, friend. Grew up in a big city, moved to a small town at 16, left after i graduated with a class of 27, and I've missed it like crazy... Man, i can still smell the fresh cut pine comin from the mill... I will return someday... I wish you the best.

[@lewisr993]

Although my town is of about 10,000 people. I enjoyed living with my parents. 8 acres, 2 neighbors and town 5 miles away. Nice and quite. Western New York is nicer. Lots of small towns and genuine people :)

[@codyjones8836]

My town we had handful stop signs and little convince store a mechanic/gas station and farm feed store, bakery and the local legion and lots of surrounding farms and that is all we had i went to college and now i travel around the country and i always find myself just taking a drive through every once in while just to remember where i came from and just remember why i miss it

[@grappler131]

my new town out east has 1,000,000+ people 5 high schools, 100's of bars, 100's of cops, traffic all the time. Its hell. I miss my hometown Laramie Wyoming

[@vamp6260]

All of. Brantley Gilbert's music is amazing but this song describes my hometown we have one stoplight it only takes about 15seconds to get through

[@georgiagirl91410]

reminds me of my small town Flowery Branch, GA. I'm going back once i turn 18 !

[@drakechief7]

@southerboy56 reminds me of my small home town Annabella UT. I miss it too and just like you I'll be goin back after highschool.

[@CountryDirtRoads]

@GoldenPig2012 We were 12 in our graduating class. We also have two stoplights and one grocery store. More than half the restaurants take cash only, and thats fine by us. We spend our money on gas and food. The bartender at ''the beaver'' knows you, and you know him. You dont go to the bar to act like a fool, you go to have a good time. We have one police car that patrols at night, and 2 during the day. We know every police officer in town. Its a great place to be, whats left of this small town.

[@TheGummybearmuncher]

I live in a small town. Chester County Tennessee. It's home to Freede-Hardemen College. Every family knows at least one person in another family...

[@mapleridgefarm4440]

our small town had it all two stores,bank,agway,gas,school of 300 kids and its all gone just a blinking light and all happened in 20yrs. south western ny will be a playground for the rich and famous. they come for weekends and holidays and try to be us.. but leave to there fancy lives and leave us with empty schools and towns and inflated land prices and they will get our farm someday but only on my last breath my kids will face hard decisions as a 4th gen farm is worth more dead than alive.

[@haleigh22400]

Buck Creek, IN pop. 265, we have five stops signs the volunteer fire dept. a cemetery, 2 churches, a restaurant, a post office, and our grain elevators and the Feed and Seed. Wouldn't leave it for nothin. Even though the school, the mill, and the grocery/ gas station

[@adamwinterton2512]

Dont listen to this amongst others, love it though!!

[@gonecountrytillidie]

its sad how when you were in middle school you couldnt wait to get to high school and graduate. Now 16 and a junior all i hear people talking about is college. All of ur friends talking about staying in there home town going to college. Then they ask u if your going to stay and u tell them there is no college that offers what I want so I going across the state to Tennessee. U realize this is going to be it and your last summer together. So chereish every moment cuz itll be gone before u know it.

[@lucasbaer9567]

Damn, I like his old songs so much better. Everything before Bottoms Up is so much better. Hope he didn't sell out...

[@codydodd2462]

The facts of it is that most people don’t like this kind of country, which is why this was an independent album and didn’t get any attention. He was really just a songwriter then. He can continue to make this music but he would be broke, it is what it is. I’m from his town, we love Brantley here, but it’s a difference in millions and millions of dollars. It’s what country is coming to, it sucks but it’s just how it is

[@alan4ize]

I lived a small town in northeast Tx and I just moved to denton Tx and its a big change

[@shellylynn4570]

I miss my small town

[@piratehockey22]

Love my small town of pinckney,mi

[@kathrynstewart8412]

I live 20 mins from there

[@dragonfan4388]

Brantley Gilbert is from my hometown.

[@codydodd2462]

Dragon Fan mine to, love our small town, go dragons! Go Brantley!!

[@2011droberts]

750 people. 1 bar 3 churches 1 school, fire depth. And a single town cop.

[@dustyanderson3561]

my home town is 1 stop light and 2 blocks long population of 640 i miss it truly im livin in to big a town right now

[@itstrue2599]

I was born in the city but my heart is all country.

[@gameboi1076]

the sad thing is the small towns in the south down here can never be heard of yet have been one of the countrys strongest in war or in crop growing . both relate to most places other than Fort Smith, Little Rock, Arkadelphia and 1 or 2 others. Gotta love East End Poyen and Perla. Perla and Malvern are called brick city due to ACME Brick being right there.

[@Quotes24Boo]

I live in an old farming town, we have one school, no sreet lights at all, no shops, one pub :)

[@FlowzTheRhythm]

@GoldenPig2012 Oh you have no idea. My town grew in just 20 years and now its suburban....i hate it and i miss the dirt roads and that one gas station everyone use to hang out at.

[@trae4017]

A small town in North Carolina population 5,500 at least ! We was the blue jean capital of the world. Now we are just a map dot. But I love this place

[@free0southern0man]

Wakulla County Florida were ppl wish they lived.

[@1988LiftedBronco]

@grappler131 My friend just moved there to start college and i moved to Sacramento, Ca for the same thing...hasn't even been a month down here and I hate this place...I need to get out on some back country road and meet some friendly country folk like I've known most of my life in Oklahoma

[@RandyMCPEREAL]

love this song

[@arkansasworstangler9151]

Kinda reminds me of Wilmington we had a paper mill and I think it was built around that the sad thing is it's dying out stores are closing

[@garrettkidd2783]

I was born in a small town in Kentucky but I left it

[@timmclaughlin2316]

Good song!

[@austintaylor7117]

I ised to listen to this when i was little

[@JamisonHudspeth]

Population-1102, gas station, one blinking light love it, hate it... memories none the less

[@VagtasticVoyage88]

i hear you on that one brother...

[@ck42014]

im already seeing that and im only 18 life flashes by

[@350T350Silverado97]

@GoldenPig2012 I graduated in 2009 with 10 from a k-12 school with less than 300 total lol.

[@pintsize4life]

my towns less than 2 miles long...population bout 250..schools 20 minutes away..

[@BraBooAha11]

Smiths Falls Ont! Population 9000 wouldnt change my small town mentality for the world.

[@jonathandukellis8186]

Yucca Valley CA

[@ridinsolo421]

seeing him August 1st (:

[@cmwiggins123456789]

When people ask people from my town where were from we have to tell them the closest big town cause ours aint on the map

[@gratisboy121]

You do know thats the town this song is about right?

[@Anna-is9fl]

Bowlin Green Mo. We r a bigger small town pop 3,000. 4 gas stations. 3 fast foods. And a walmart and a dollar tree. One blinkin light.

[@truckboy59]

@YargItsAPirate Im from a small town in Mass, what town are you from?

[@jtp1389]

@TheGummybearmuncher Yea, most people do know atleast one other person...

[@chasewilliams1027]

Grovetown, GA, Just wish theyd stop puttin these damn subdivisions in everywhere...

[@whiskeydrinker24]

@bamakid0123 Actually I really did have 9 people in my graduating class. Fossil, Oregon. High school had a total of 35 kids grades 7-12. Town population in around 450 people. If you think I am lying, I really do not care. Plus, calling someone out on how many people were in their graduating class seems petty, but if that's how you like to act then so be it. Have a great day bamakid0123

[@hotrod84198484]

my town is 100,000 ppl over build for 50 thousand too many fuckin ppl

[@hushychewer567]

fort gay WV population 800 and some the name sounds funny but its about as country as it gets

[@countrygirl75169]

hes fine! (: