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  • NEWS AND NOTES: Luke, Lady A, Darius, Dierks, Sam, Keith, Kacey, Church

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    Watch the ABC News special, Countdown to the CMA Awards: Country’s Greatest Crossover Hits with Robin Roberts on Monday (November 2nd) at 10pm ET on ABC. The special will feature performances and interviews with such artists as Lady Antebellum, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Sam Hunt, Keith Urban and many more.

    Kacey Musgraves attended the opening soiree for actress Reese Witherspoon’s new store, Draper James, in Nashville last week. Faith Hill and Sheryl Crow were also in attendance.

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    Luke Bryan and Eric Church both nabbed nominations for this year’s Billboard Touring Awards. Luke’s Kick the Dust Up trek, featuring Florida Georgia Line, Randy Houser, Dustin Lynch and Thomas Rhett, is in the running for Top Package. Church was named as Breakthrough Artist, and is in the lineup as part of Kenny Chesney’s Big Revival Tour for Top Package. The 2015 Billboard Touring Awards will take place November 19th at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

  • DIERKS BENTLEY AND LITTLE BIG TOWN ADDED TO THE LIST OF PERFORMERS AT THE CMA AWARDS.

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    Little Big Town and Dierks Bentley have been added to the list of performers at next week’s CMA Awards. They’re joined on the bill by Florida Georgia Line and Zac Brown Band.

    Three-time CMA Vocal Group of the Year Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Phillip Sweet, and Jimi Westbrook) have been nominated in the category every year since 2006 and received a nomination again in 2015. Adding to their list of 21 total nominations are industry nods this year for Single of the Year for “Girl Crush,” which was produced by Jay Joyce; Album of the Year for Pain Killer, which was produced by Joyce; Musical Event of the Year with Miranda Lambert for “Smokin’ and Drinkin’”; and Music Video of the Year for “Girl Crush” which was directed by Karla Welch and Matthew Welch. Little Big Town and Eric Church are tied for the most nominations for 2015.

    Dierks will be joined by electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling during his performance n the show. The Phoenix native, a 15-time nominee and two-time winner including the Horizon Award in 2005 (now New Artist of the Year) and Music Video of the Year in 2014 for “Drunk on a Plane,” collects his fourth Male Vocalist nomination in 2015. His performance will include a special appearance by Stirling, an electronic violinist whose YouTube channel has exceeded 7 million subscribers with over 1 billion total views and whose most recent album Shatter Me, reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 200 album chart. She has been named in Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 In Music: The Class of 2015.

    Previously announced performers include Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt, Kacey Musgraves, Keith Urban with John Mellencamp, , Eric Church with Hank Williams, Jr., Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Kelsea Ballerini, Maddie & Tae and Thomas Rhett with Fall Out Boy.

    The 49th Annual CMA Awards will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena Wednesday, November 4th at 8pm ET on ABC.

  • HALLOWEEN 2015: AJ, Billy, Brothers Osborne, Canaan, Darius, David, Easton, Eric, Jon, Lady A, Luke, Scotty

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    Alan Jackson / Billy Currington / Brothers Osborne / Canaan Smith / Darius Rucker / David Nail / Dierks Bentley / Easton Corbin / Eric Church / Jon Pardi / Lady Antebellum / Luke Bryan / Scotty Mccreery

    Halloween is Saturday, and the holiday has some of your favorite country stars getting into costumes, and they also recall memories of Halloweens past.

    Audio / Alan Jackson used to take his daughters trick-or-treating when they were young kids, but he recalls one costume that he hated. It was an infant costume that made one of the girls look like a little peapod.

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    AJ (Halloween) OC: …cute, but…[laughs] :17
    “Aww, I remember some, when they were infants, they had like these little, they looked like a little pea pod, you know, or something. It’s like a little green pea or something. And I thought man, that’s awful. But Denise liked it, and I guess it was cute, but…(laughs).”

    Audio / Billy Currington reminisces about his childhood Halloween memories.

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    Billy Currington (Halloween) OC: …Halloween. :17
    “You know, when I was a kid, I loved the trick and the treat. I loved dressing up. I was always wanting to be Dracula. That was my favorite guy. But, of course, who doesn’t love going door-to-door and getting these buckets of candy? [laughs] So, love, love Halloween.”

    Audio / Billy Currington (Trick or Treat)

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    “Trick or Treat, baby.” [laughs]

    Audio / Brothers Osborne’s John Osborne talks about carving pumpkins with their dad when they were growing up.

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    Brothers Osborne (carving pumpkins) OC: …or something. :25
    “With our dad every year, we would go looking for pumpkins, and we would all get our own pumpkin to carve, and he would buy the biggest pumpkin that they had. It was huge. I mean, it was way too big for any one person, but he would love carving. He’s kind of an artsy guy. He was a great drawer and stuff, and he would carve the most terrifying, vicious looking, scary pumpkin you’d ever seen in your life, and it would be massive. It would be like on a 50-pound pumpkin or something.”

    Audio / Brothers Osborne talk about their favorite Halloween candy...and not so favorite.

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    Brothers Osborne (Halloween candy) OC: (John) …go stale. [laughs] :34
    TJ: “I would say,  Snickers, Baby Ruth, Kit Kat and Reese’s too.” JOHN: “I always hated those houses that would give you bad candy, though. You’re like, ‘C’mon. Step it up.’ Spend the extra dollar on a bag, you know?” TJ: “A house when we were growing up used to give out whole candy bars. It was the best. You were like, ‘That house – that’s the honey hole of candy.’” JOHN: “I love it, and I love like at the end, like three or four days after Halloween you would see what candy was left, and it was always like those crappy cheap candies, and they would just go stale.” [laughs]

    Audio / Brothers Osborne’s TJ and John Osborne talk about dressing up like zombies for Halloween.

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    Brothers Osborne (zombie costume) OC: (John) …was so fun! :29
    TJ: “Literally, you can dress up like a zombie and drag your foot behind you all day and make weird noises, and everyone finds that completely acceptable.” [laughs] JOHN: “One year I dressed up as a ‘90s redneck zombie with a mullet wig and an Alan Jackson denim coat. I never once broke character. That’s part of the thing — you can actually not break character and get away with it. And everywhere I went, even when I ordered a drink, I ordered it like a zombie that was falling apart. [laughs] It was so fun!”

    Audio / Canaan Smith says his Halloweens of today have changed dramatically since he was a child.

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    Canaan Smith (Halloween) OC: …cornfields. :37
    “I grew up in a Christian family. We went to a private Christian school for a while, so they didn’t allow us to celebrate Halloween like I do now. We did what was called a Hallelujah Party instead, and you still dress up and still get all the candy, but  you go to the high school gym. You play games, you just do, like cornhole and the dunking booth and all kinds of stuff and win prizes, but it was nothing ever scary. I think they had like rules about what outfits you could and couldn’t wear. But now I just love freaking myself out and going to, I love going to haunted houses and haunted cornfields.”

    Audio / Darius Rucker loves Halloween, especially because it’s his kids’ favorite holiday.

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    Darius (Halloween) OC: …I’m into. :06
    “Halloween’s big for me, because the kids love it. It’s my kids’ favorite holiday, so anything they’re into, I’m into.”

    Audio / David Nail talks about his favorite part of Halloween.

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    David Nail (favorite part of Halloween) OC: …it better. :14
    “My favorite thing about Halloween was just the excitement about picking out your costume and talking to your friends and fighting over if you’re going to be this or if they stole the idea from you and if you can do the idea better.”

    Audio / David Nail wants to have the best candy in the neighbrhood.

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    David Nail (Halloween candy) OC: …neighborhood. :19
    “My sister and I would always go out and hide in the trees and the bushes and scare the kids that would come up to our house, which was rare ‘cause we always had the crappiest candy ever. And when I can afford it, I’m gonna have the best dagum candy. I’m gonna blow everybody away. I’m gonna have a line. It’s gonna look like a George Strait meet-and-greet. It’ll be all the way around the neighborhood.”

    Audio / Dierks Bentley talks about the Halloweens of his childhood.

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    Dierks Bentley (Halloween) OC: … …around home. [laughs]  :23
    “Oh, when I was a kid, I was all into fireworks. Growing up in Arizona, we couldn’t get ’em, so we’d have ’em shipped in illegally. I still remember the name of the guy we’d call. His name was Joe, and he’d bring in, ship ’em in a package with no writing on ’em. We were all about M-80s in the mailboxes and bottle rocket wars. To me, as a kid, Halloween was fireworks, was blowing up stuff around home. [laughs]”

    Audio / Easton Corbin has never dressed up for Halloween as an adult, but one of his favorite costumes as a kid was made by his grandmother.

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    Easton Corbin (Halloween) OC: …pretty warm. :26
    “My grandma made a werewolf outfit for me, and I wore that one year. She got this fake hair and glued it to sweatpants and a sweatshirt. That was a hot outfit. I mean, it got pretty warm.”

    Audio / Eric Church recalls his favorite Halloween costume.

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    Eric Church (Halloween) OC: …Franklin Street. 1:18
    “My favorite Halloween costume  really came, I remember when I got a little older my first year of college, there’s this thing they do every year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Halloween on Franklin Street. We drove down from Boone, North Carolina. I had a bunch of friends that went to University of North Carolina, and we didn’t have costumes and didn’t realize until we were on the way that we had to have costumes. So, we stopped at a costume place in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s Halloween, so there’s a run on everything and couldn’t find anything. And we end up getting sent around, driving  around town. We end up finding this hole in the wall place, but they had the full costume, Sesame Street outfits. The real deal. The real ones [with] feathers and fur. We were Elmo, Cookie Monster and I was Big Bird, and the Big Bird was the actual Big Bird. It’s about 7-foot-4, and yiou looked out of the body and then you had these straps that went on since the head was a lot higher. There’s a lot of beer involved in Franklin Street, so we get down there and as the night went on, my straps broke, so the head would pivot. And so, I would be walking one way and the head would be facing the other, and it just became this funny…I didn’t know the head was on backwards. I had no idea. I see out of the body, so I’m just kinda walking around and people were talking to my ass-end. [laughs] The whole time peiople’d come up and start talking and go, ‘Hey, turn around.’ And I’d turn around, and they’d go, ‘No turn around.’ It was a mess. That year, there was no other Big Bird on Franklin Street.”

    Audio / Jon Pardi talks about his favorite Halloween costumes as a child.

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    Jon Pardi (Halloween) 1 OC: …the Superman. :15
    “Man, I went through phases of costumes – the Superman costume, then it was a ninja, then I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle one year. I remember rockin’ the Superman.”

    Audio / Lady Antebellum’s Charles Kelley reveals one costume he’s always wanted to wear on Halloween.

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    Lady A (Charles costume) OC: …an apple. :19
    CHARLES: “I want to be a banana. I think there’s something so funny and understated about a banana, especially when you’re 6’6” and like your little head’s popping through and you’re a banana.” DAVE: “Do they make ‘em your size?” CHARLES: “I’ve been known to sew a thing or two.” HILLARY: “That’s really random.” CHARLES: “I know. I’ve always wanted to dress up like something, just kind of funny like a banana or an apple.”

    Audio / Lady Antebellum’s Dave Haywood recalls one of his most embarrassing Halloween costumes.

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    Lady A (Dave Haywood costume memory) OC: …50 feet. :20
    “I was a die (1/2 of a pair of dice) for Halloween. I had a big cardboard box that I had painted white and had the polka dots and stuff. And I remember I was walking up this hill to go to this hill and literally fell back down the entire hill [laughter], rolling in this giant cardboard box that I couldn’t do anything about, because I rolled down about 50-feet.”

    Audio / Luke Bryan says you can tell a lot about your neighbors from what kind of Halloween candy they hand out.

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    Luke Bryan (Halloween) OC: …your teeth. :18
    “You can find out a lot about your neighbors by what kind of candy they put out. So, well, like full bars of Snickers bars, that’s what, and Reese’s cups, [but] the old chocolate popcorn ball of stuff, that’s no good either, like Dots – you get Dots one time of year and they pull your teeth.”

    Audio / Luke Bryan says you can tell a lot about your neighbors from what kind of Halloween candy they hand out.

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    Scotty McCreery (favorite costume and memory) OC: …was happening. :19
    “My favorite Halloween memory would have to be me in my gorilla costume running down the street chasing some little girl I was friends with. I knew her, but I was scaring her half to death. My favorite costume, though, would have to be my Elvis Presley costume. I think I was about 10 years old when that was happening.”

  • CHARLES KELLEY PREMIERES THE VIDEO FOR ‘THE DRIVER.’

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    Charles Kelley / Dierks Bentley / Eric Paslay

    The video for Charles Kelley‘s single, “The Driver,” premiered on Friday (October 23rd). The clip features Eric Paslay (who also co-wrote the song) and Dierks Bentley.

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  • HALLOWEEN LINERS: Brothers Osborne, Canaan, Church, Clare, Darius, David, Dierks, Kacey, Kelleigh, Lady A, Paslay, Sam, Scotty

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    Audio / LINER Brothers Osborne (Halloween)

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    “Hey! This is TJ, and I’m John, and we are Brothers Osborne. Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Canaan Smith (Halloween)

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    “Hey! What’s up guys? I’m Canaan Smith. Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Clare Dunn (Halloween)

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    “Hey! This is Clare Dunn, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Darius Rucker (Halloween)

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    “Hey! What’s up, y’all? This is Darius Rucker, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”

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    “Hey guys! It’s David Nail. Happy Halloween!”

    Audio / LINER Dierks Bentley (Halloween)

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    “Hey! It’s Dierks Bentley, wishing you a Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Eric Church (Halloween)

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    “Hey! This is Eric Church, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Eric Paslay (Halloween)

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    “Hey! This is Eric Paslay, wishing you a very Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Kacey Musgraves (Halloween)

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    “Hey! It’s Kacey Musgraves, and I hope you have a Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Kelleigh Bannen (Halloween)

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    “Hey! This is Kelleigh Bannen, wishing you a very scary and Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / Lady A (Halloween)

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    “Hey everybody! We are Lady Antebellum. Have a safe and Happy Halloween.”

    Audio / LINER Sam Hunt (Halloween)

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    Hey everybody! This is Sam Hunt. Happy Halloween!”

    Audio / LINER Scotty McCreery

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    “Hey! This is Scotty McCreery. Have a safe and Happy Halloween.”

  • CHARLES KELLEY TALKS ABOUT WRITING ‘THE DRIVER.’

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    Charles Kelley appeard on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this week to perform his new solo single, “The Driver,” with Eric Paslay and Dierks Bentley. Backstage, he chatted about the inspiration behind the song which he wrote with Paslay and Abe Stoklasa.

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  • NEWS AND NOTES: Luke, Darius, Dierks, Toby, Canaan

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    Luke Bryan postponed his Thursday night Farm Tour stop in Lexington, Kentucky and Saturday night’s show in Columbia, South Carolina due to weather. The Lexington show will now take place Tuesday (October 6th), while Columbia’s stop has been rescheduled for October 11th. Luke posted a statement on Twitter, saying, “Postponing a show is so difficult for me because I know it is an inconvenience to the people that make my life amazing. The fans. Very sorry!” For more details, go to LukeBryan.com.

    UPDATE: Luke has now canceled Friday night’s Farm Tour date in Knoxville. It has yet to be scheduled as of 1:50p CT.

    Darius Rucker will appear in The Grand Ole Opry’s first feature film, American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry. The movie will hit select U.S. Carmike Cinemas for a limited engagement beginning December 4th. The concert film will also feature performances by Opry members Brad Paisley and Blake Shelton, as well as The Band Perry and Brett Eldredge.

    Dierks Bentley celebrated his 10th anniversary of being a member of the Grand Ole Opry this week, and he brought along a special guest: his dog Jake, who was also on hand when he became a member of the famed institution.

    Toby Keith is set to perform on the new TBS series Neighborhood Sessions October 16th. The show was recorded in Toby’s hometown of Moore, Oklahoma, and will feature several of his hits, along with some songs from his new album, 35 mph Town, available October 9th.

    Canaan Smith‘s ‘American Muscle’ will be used for ESPN’s College GameDay this season. You can also find the song on his debut album, Bronco.

  • DIERKS BENTLEY FANS FLOCK TO SOUNDS OF SUMMER TOUR.

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    “Crowd-pleasing entertainer, emotional singer and resourceful songwriter” (The Star Tribune) Dierks Bentley closed out one of the most buzzed about shows this summer as his 2015 SOUNDS OF SUMMER TOUR wrapped on Saturday (9/19) in Atlanta, GA.  Music critics coast-to-coast applauded the CMA Male Vocalist of the Yearnominee for his “top-tier production” (Rolling Stone) that created the ultimate summer party with Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith rounding out the bill.
     
    While fans have sold-out amphitheaters in some of the country’s biggest markets, music critics have echoed the same enthusiasm.
     
    “Entertaining night that found the singer in excellent voice throughout while leading a stage full of top-notch musicians in a set that struck just the right balance between his upbeat party songs and heartfelt moments that at times recalled the feel of a Bruce Springsteen concert.” – The Arizona Republic
     
    “Yes, the crowd sings along with every word…And yes, we all wanted more.” – St. Louis Dispatch
     
    “Onstage, Bentley was as exuberant as ever, roaming and high-fiving, running up to a tiny stage set in the cheap seats for a handful of songs – judging from his performance, Dierks Bentley is enjoying the view from the top.” – The Boston Globe
     
    “Bentley’s set solidified him as the artist you most want to have a beer with – the banter he shared with his captive audience held that playful tone throughout the night.” – The Village Voice 
     
    “Bentley lost no time engaging himself with fans…from there, it was a total country singalong party, with the audience following along to nearly every of Bentley’s dozen-year hit catalog, ranging from 2003’s ‘What Was I Thinkin” all the way to his current single, ‘Riser.’” – Yahoo!
     
    The latest single from the multi-PLATINUM entertainer, “Riser” served as a show-stopping moment during the 2015 SOUNDS OF SUMMER TOUR with The Fresno Bee noting it has “one of the most inspiring messages of any song he’s ever done” while The Times-Picayune noted the hit ”is imprinted with Bentley’s distinct aesthetic.” It is currently climbing the country radio charts and the music video can be viewed here: http://bit.ly/1V64Men
     
    The multi-Platinum singer’s critically acclaimed seventh studio album RISER, which has “elevated him above the rest of the country pack” (People), debuted at the No. One position on the Billboard Country Albums chart, becoming his fifth career debut in the top spot. The CMA, ACM and GRAMMY nominated album earned 15 award nods since its release, including this year’s “Male Vocalist of the Year” nomination at the upcoming 49th Annual CMA Awards and has additionally scoring three consecutive No. one songs. To date, RISER has notched more than 2.8 million in track sales and more than 149 million streams.
     
    Bentley is currently gearing up for his 10th Annual Miles & Music in Nashville, TN benefiting Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, which recently sold-out in less than 30 minutes. For more information, visit www.dierks.com.

  • DIERKS BENTLEY SALUTES ‘RISERS’ WITH LIMITED EDITION NECKLACE.

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    In the final chapter of Dierks Bentley’s critically acclaimed GRAMMY, ACM and CMA nominated album RISER, the multi-PLATINUM entertainer has commissioned a limited edition “Riser” necklace available now on Dierks.com and at Nashville’s White’s Mercantile for $79. All proceeds of the handcrafted 18” gold-chain with a hand-stamped charm design will benefit Bentley’s 10th Annual “Miles & Music For Kids.”

    The one-of-a-kind accessory brings the story full-circle, including Bentley’s inspired message that first launched the project: “We are on a journey. The endless cycle of life, love, loss, faith, freedom, and family. We learn from our past to define our future. Everyone has a defining moment in their life, a breakthrough moment, it’s the moment when you choose to be a riser.”

    The album that “again elevates himself above the rest of the country pack” (People) continues to impact Country radio, most recently with its title track that follows three consecutive No. ones from the record. To watch the single’s raw music video, clickhere.

    Bentley heads into the final run of his headlining 2015 SOUND OF SUMMER TOUR this weekend in New Orleans, LA (9/18) and Alpharetta, GA (9/19).

    On Nov. 1, he will host the 10th Annual “Miles & Music For Kids” celebrity motorcycle ride and concert, closing out Nashville’s new Ascend Amphitheater opening season. While the event is sold out, a limited number of walk-up rider passes will be available day of event. For more information and for a full list of upcoming tour dates, visit www.dierks.com.

  • DIERKS BENTLEY WILL OPEN 2ND WHISKEY ROW LOCATION NEXT WEEK.

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    NASHVILLE, TN – Sep. 10, 2015 – Multi-PLATINUM entertainer Dierks Bentley alongside Riot Hospitality (RHG) will debut the new Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Tempe, AZ on September 17th. The second of the Whiskey Row restaurant concepts is located in the heart of Tempe’s Mill Avenue District at 6th Street and Mill Avenue.
     
    “I couldn’t be happier about opening our second Whiskey Row location in Tempe,” shares Bentley. “I grew up going to a lot of great bars and restaurants on Mill Avenue and I’m really excited about bringing my own concept to the area. With our unique country music culture and awesome food and drinks, the Tempe Whiskey Row location will be something very special.”
     
    “We’ve experienced tremendous success with the original Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Scottsdale and we’re looking forward to expanding our concept to an entirely new entertainment destination like Mill Avenue,” said Ryan Hibbert, CEO of RHG. “Not unlike our Scottsdale entertainment, Whiskey Row Tempe will be a place for the local community to connect and celebrate the cornerstones of our restaurant culture – unparalleled food and drinks, design, service and entertainment.”
     
    Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Tempe will showcase some of the restaurant’s original favorites with daring new additions from Chef Samantha Roberts. Standout menu items include the Kale & Quinoa Salad, Mac & Cheese Burger, Southern Fries, Salmon BLT, Turkey Pretzel Melt and brunch offerings, along with more than 50 beers on tap and a unique selection of signature “cocktails on tap,” craft cocktails from the tap that are then customized with a mixer of guest’s choice. Whiskey Row Tempe will embody a “first-of-its-kind” culture with interactive entertainment complete with live music, country DJs and a back-porch style playground featuring corn hole, ping pong, foosball, shuffleboard, 55 televisions and more. For more information visit XX.
     
    One of country music’s most-respected and most-unpredictable careers, award-winning singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley continues to grow, as “his career skyrocketed to greater heights with the release of his seventh album, RISER” (San Jose Mercury News).  After spawning three consecutive No. one hits with “I Hold On,” “Drunk On A Plane” and “Say You Do,” he follows with the moving ballad “Riser” as the record’s latest release. Bentley’s six previous studio albums have sold more than five million copies, notched 13 chart-topping singles, earned 12 GRAMMY nominations, countless CMA, ACM and CMTnominations and membership at the Grand Ole Opry. Bentley is currently on the road selling out arenas and amphitheaters with his 2015 SOUND OF SUMMER TOUR, and recently sold-out his 10th Annual Miles & Music For Kids event in Nashville, TN within 30 minutes. For more information, visit www.dierks.com.