Bozeman Magazine

Gilbert's unrelenting brand of Country has notched six #1s "Country Must Be Country Wide," "You Don't Know Her Like I Do," "Bottoms Up" and "One Hell of An Amen," as well as his two Aldean smashes. More full-tilt, more aggressive, yet supremely grounded in the red clay he was raised in, The New York Times wrote of Just As I Am, "What elegance Mr. Gilbert manages in this demolition derby. Mr. Gilbert comes on like a revving monster-truck engine, backed by heavy rock guitar, but there's a slyness to his singing. Beneath his boxy exterior, there's an active intelligence about melody and texture…In a Country era where hardness isn't valorized in the least, he's unapologetically rough, singing with the tenderness of a chain saw. And on this strong album — his third in a row — he betrays no shame about his creatine-fueled version of Country music, which has more in common with 1980s arena rock than with the rest of Nashville."