Dierks Bentley‘s 10th studio album GRAVEL & GOLD is a collection of 14-songs that contain a combination of his sounds and styles over an illustrious 20-year career. He scrapped his first two attempts in the studio, but he wanted to make No. 10 just right.
“I heard about that number a lot as I was going into it, and I really didn’t know what it meant to me personally or what to do with it,” says Dierks. “It wasn’t until I was in the studio for like the second time, I started thinking about ten. And that’s where I kind of start thinking more about like this kind of the tenth album should be, not a collection of, you know, a greatest hits album, but like a greatest styles and sounds of my previous albums all on one record. You know, like an album that collected the little areas I tried to carve my little thing out of. So, like obviously you know radio country, the hits people know for me on the radio whatever those that style is trying to do something new or different, but then also I love of bluegrass and nineties country and the fun songs on this record that would be Beer At My Funeral, you know, some of the more traditional songs too. I really wanted those on here, you know. Again, It gets weird. It goes back to my, like my first album. I didn’t mean to do that, but my first album had some stuff that was different but also had some shuffles. It ended on a bluegrass song with Del McCoury, and this one ends with a Billy Strings bluegrass song. And so I wanted to make an album, my 10th album to be something I could be like, Hey, this is like me doing what I do, all the little things that I love about country music on one album. It’s not a greatest hits, but it’s a collection of my sound and my styles, and hopefully done the greatest I’ve done it before, if that makes any sense. So, that’s what ten, the 10th thing ended up becoming a little bit of a theme for me as far as like, trying to make it a collection of all those styles and sounds.”
The Grand Ole Opry will celebrate Dierks on the release of his 10th studio album, GRAVEL & GOLD , with a special one-hour set, “Dierks Bentley & Friends,” on the Friday, March 3rd show. The Opry will bring to life a portion of the Gravel & Gold album with performances by Bentley as well as his friends Jordan Davis, Ashley McBryde and more to be announced.
The “Dierks Bentley & Friends” one-hour set will air as a Saturday night Opry Live on March 18th on the Opry’s television broadcast home, Circle Network, Circle All Access Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The Opry show will be heard on opry.com and wsmonline.com, SiriusXM Willie’s Roadhouse, and the show’s flagship radio home, WSM Radio.
Dierks is making his way up the country charts with his latest single, “Gold.”
Audio / Dierks Bentley says making his 10th album gained more significance to him as the recording process went on.
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“I heard about that number a lot as I was going into it, and I really didn’t know what it meant to me personally or what to do with it. It wasn’t until I was in the studio for like the second time, I started thinking about ten. And that’s where I kind of start thinking more about like this kind of the tenth album should be, not a collection of, you know, a greatest hits album, but like a greatest styles and sounds of my previous albums all on one record. You know, like an album that collected the little areas I tried to carve my little thing out of. So, like obviously you know radio country, the hits people know for me on the radio whatever those that style is trying to do something new or different, but then also I love of bluegrass and nineties country and the fun songs on this record that would be Beer At My Funeral, you know, some of the more traditional songs too. I really wanted those on here, you know. Again, It gets weird. It goes back to my, like my first album. I didn’t mean to do that, but my first album had some stuff that was different but also had some shuffles. It ended on a bluegrass song with Del McCoury, and this one ends with a Billy Strings bluegrass song. And so I wanted to make an album, my 10th album to be something I could be like, Hey, this is like me doing what I do, all the little things that I love about country music on one album. It’s not a greatest hits, but it’s a collection of my sound and my styles, and hopefully done the greatest I’ve done it before, if that makes any sense. So, that’s what ten, the 10th thing ended up becoming a little bit of a theme for me as far as like, trying to make it a collection of all those styles and sounds.”
