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HARDY’s favorite tattoo is a vibrant flower for his wife, Caleigh Hardy.
The award-winning singer-songwriter spoke about the significance of some of his tattoos in a video shared on Instagram on Tuesday evening (September 3). HARDY said: “I have a lot of tattoos, and my favorite one is the flower on my hand, which is my wife’s favorite flower, a ‘stargazer’ lily. All of my tattoos on my arm are all significant to my hometown (of) Philadelphia, Mississippi, or just Mississippi in general. I have a bunch of leg tattoos of places I’ve been: Italy, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia. …Love me some tattoos.”
Brantley Gilbert shared the video of HARDY as he stirs anticipation for his new studio album, Tattoos, which is due this month. Gilbert previously collaborated with HARDY, who is featured on one of the tracks on Gilbert’s last studio album, So Help Me God, along with late country legend Toby Keith. So far, Gilbert has released “Dirty Money” featuring Justin Moore, “Me And My House” featuring Struggle Jennings and Demun Jones, “Over When We’re Sober” featuring Ashley Cooke, and “Off The Rails” from his forthcoming 10-track album.
- “Dirty Money” featuring Justin Moore
- “Over When We’re Sober” featuring Ashley Cooke
- “Tattoos”
- “Gone By Now”
- “Off The Rails”
- “The Hell That Raised Us”
- “Me and My House” featuring Struggle Jennings and Demun Jones
- “God Isn’t Country” featuring Gary LeVox
- “Out Here”
- “Miss These Towns”
Gilbert is celebrating Tattoos’ arrival with the “World’s Largest Album Release Party,” a free event featuring surprise guests in Nashville, Tennessee. It kicks off on Nashville’s famous Lower Broadway at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 13.
“All my albums, they capture a chapter of my life,” Gilbert said in a press release shared by his record label. “If somebody wants to know who I am, what I’ve been through and where I stand, they can start at the beginning and listen through, and that’s why it was undeniable that Tattoos should be the title – because my tattoos do the same thing.
“People get ‘em for a lot of reasons, but for most of us, tattoos talk about our victories and losses, our struggles and the whole nine,” he continued. “I was one of those kids who had to learn the hard way. But if I would’ve listened to the advice of others, I don’t know I would have ended up where I am.”