Latest Release
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- 23 FEB 2024
- 1 Song
- 10s Best Country · 2024
- I Built a World · 2024
- American Girl - Single · 2024
- Compadres - EP · 2023
- Apple Music Nashville Sessions · 2023
- Apple Music Nashville Sessions · 2023
- Apple Music Nashville Sessions · 2023
- Gravel & Gold · 2023
- Gravel & Gold · 2023
- Gravel & Gold · 2023
Essential Albums
Albums
- 2018
Artist Playlists
- From tenderhearted duets to fiddle-fuelled barn burners, Dierks can do it all.
- He's equal parts backwoods troubadour and life of the party.
Live Albums
Appears On
Radio Shows
- Dierks Bentley rounds up the most popular songs from Apple Music's country charts.
- A Top 30 dominated by Zach Bryan and Morgan Wallen.
- For the first time ever, Dierks hosts a 30-song countdown.
- Black icons and legends of country music.
- Dierks jams out to the top songs of the summer.
- George Strait and Lainey Wilson bring big hits.
- Take a breath and unwind with songs to ease the mind.
- A listen in to Johnny Cash’s American Recordings.
About Dierks Bentley
A 21st-century troubadour with an ear for classic country style, Dierks Bentley has blazed a searing trail through Nashville since his 2003 arrival. Born in Arizona in 1975, Bentley was a fan of Hank Williams Jr. and Waylon Jennings, and he made his way to Music Row after leaving school. There, he sat in on all-night bluegrass jam sessions and researched old TV performances for The Nashville Network while pursuing his country-music calling. Bentley’s love of honky-tonk 45s and savvy about modern audiences’ wants came together on his debut single “What Was I Thinkin’”, a whiskey-soaked romp through a wild night, and he went on to become one of Nashville’s hottest artists in the 2000s, releasing country-radio smashes like the breezy “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)” and the winking “Sideways” while headlining tours and supporting Kenny Chesney and Brad Paisley. In 2010, he saluted his love of bluegrass with the stripped-down Up on the Ridge, and over the rest of the decade he kept listeners on their toes with tracks like the simmering “Black” and the ruminative “Living” as well as the 2014 hit “Drunk on a Plane”, which turns a hard-luck tale about a non-refundable honeymoon into a high-flying anthem. Since 2020, he's also been counting down the most popular songs from Apple Music’s country charts on his show The Nashville Countdown. Bentley’s scholarship of country music and keen instincts have helped him flourish—and given the genre he loves modern-day strength.
- HOMETOWN
- Phoenix, AZ, United States
- BORN
- 20 November 1975
- GENRE
- Country