Parker McCollum has been entertaining large audiences for the past few years, but as he hits the road with Dierks Bentley on the Beers On Me Tour — which kicked off this past weekend, he plans to study the headliner as an artist and a businessman.

“You know, I can’t stress enough how closely I will watch him the whole time we’re on tour with him. I fully expect to be on that level one day, and so I mean, every night that we play I’ll do my thing. We’ll go out and rip our 30, 40 minutes and then when he goes on, I’ll stand side stage and I’ll watch how he goes about his business and how he handles himself as a performer and as a businessman and how he carries himself and take mental notes every night, and hopefully get the opportunity to put those notes to work one day.”

The Beers On Me Tour makes stops in Irvine, California on Friday (August 20th), Mountain View, California on Saturday (August 21st) and Stateline, Nevada on Sunday (August 22nd).

Parker is making his way up the country charts with his latest song, “To Be Loved By You.”