Today is go time for the release of Dierks Bentley’s Feel That Fire. An advance copy showed up at The Country Station, so we can tell you that upon first listen you will hear artistic growth and a variety of sounds from Dierks. “Here She Comes” and “Sideways” take Dierks into the fun and familiar territory of “What Was I Thinkin’” and “Free and Easy,” and he could have a sexy future single coming at us with “I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes.” Dierks goes lookin’ for the love of a little senorita with the Spanish-flavored “I Can’t Forget Her.” And those that are familiar with Dierks’ acoustic, bluegrass-flavored concert sets are in for a treat with the Ronnie McCoury & Friends duet “Last Call.” And to hear the spiritual side of Dierks, don’t miss “Better Believer” or the Rodney Crowell co-write “Pray.” Of the long recording process, Dierks says, “You know it’s two years into the making of this record, four studios, and a bunch of musicians and just approached it differently to try and have the result I was wanting to get. So to have it out now is pretty cool.”Speaking of Dierks Bentley, and the other big boys of country music, it seems that they're going to have to make room for Blake Shelton in the club. When “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” topped the charts right behind “Home,” it put Blake in the exclusive club of solo male artists to have landed two back-to-back number one singles. Since the beginning of the decade, the only other guys to have done it are Gary Allan, Rodney Atkins, Dierks Bentley, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, George Strait, Josh Turner and Keith Urban. Blake’s career sports a total of five number ones, including “Austin,” “The Baby,” and “Some Beach” which each hit the top on separate occasions in 2001, 2003, and 2005 respectively.
Dolly Parton fans can catch a one-hour special on the TV Guide Channel airing Sunday, February 8th at noon!!! The show “Close-Up” will take Dolly fans on an in-depth journey through Dolly’s life and will focus on her latest release Backwoods Barbie.
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Feel That Fire is spawning a lot of blazing clichés this week, and all of them are right! This is one hot CD that is going to go places – read that up! Dierks has said he wanted to stay in the moment, as well as have fun. He’s done it with style and grace. Style with the Warren Brothers in the title cut, grace with the incomparable Patti Griffin in Beautiful World, Better Believer, co-written with Rivers Rutherford, and Pray, written with Rodney Crowell. For fun you can’t beat Sideways and Here She Comes. My favorite today is I Wanna Close Your Eyes, but tomorrow it may change to that motorcycle revving Life on the Run with Mike McCready (Pearl Jam). You may remember McCready’s previous contribution with Bentley on Distant Shore on his first CD. Feel that Fire? You bet. Get yours today.
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