On February 25th, 2014, Dierks Bentley released his album, Riser. He said the album was a snapshot of his life at the time, bookended by the death of his father and the birth of his son, Knox.
He’s currently making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Somewhere on a Beach,” from his forthcoming album, Black.
Dierks Bentley (Riser snapshot) OC: …decided for me. :45Audio / Dierks Bentley says Riser is a snapshot of his life at the moment.
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“I think every record I’ve made has always been a little bit of a Polaroid snapshot of where I was at that place and time when I made it. This particular album just has a lot of scenery in the picture. I mean there’s a lot that’s gone on in the last two years, more so than any other time in my life. You look at some of the bookends of the making of this record – my Dad passing away at the start of the process and then my son Knox being born at the end of the process. It was unexpected…when I made this record I just wanted to have the best songs. I wasn’t sure what they were going to be about, but I wanted them to be the best. I wanted to write my best songs, I wanted to write a lot of songs. I wanted to listen to a lot of outside songs and find the best songs that I could for whatever I was going to write about, but I wasn’t sure what it was gonna be, and then life came along and decided for me.”
