Dierks Bentley’s new single, “Home,” has just been released, and it’s already establishing itself as an inspirational anthem for the tough times the nation is experiencing. Weighing heavily on the singer-songwriter’s mind was the Tucson massacre that took place in January of this year that left 6 dead and more than a dozen more injured, as he sat down with his friend, Brett Beavers, and Dan Wilson (Semisonic, Adele), for a songwriting appointment. “This melody started coming out of the piano, and I had never really written with a piano in the room before,” recalls Dierks. “Once that melody came in, the words just kind of fell in there. We just felt like we were on to something really special.” As far as the message in the song, Dierks wanted to make people feel better about this country, despite the chinks in its armor. “I wanted to do something that’s inspiring and uniting and looks back at our failures, and more than anything else, just our greatness,” he explains. “It’s just such tough times out there right now for so many of my fans and so many folks out there that, hopefully, it’s a song that inspires people and makes ‘em feel good.”

• “Home” is the second single from his forthcoming album, due out early next year. The first single, “Am I The Only One,” recently topped the country charts.
• Expect Dierks to perform “Home” as he embarks on his Country & Cold Cans Tour on Thursday (Oct. 6th) in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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“I wrote that song with, the guy that I wrote ‘Am I the Only One’ with, Jim Beavers, his brother Brett and I write a lot together and he produces a lot of my records. He and I wrote that together with Dan Wilson. That’s one of those songwriting appointments that [it was] my first time writing with Dan and Brett, that little trio, and it just kind of came quickly. In the back of my mind, in my home state of Arizona the shooting that happened in Tucson, that massacre, so that was definitely in the back of my mind, and this melody started coming out of the piano, and I had never really written with a piano in the room before. Once that melody came into place, the words just kind of fell in there. We just felt like we were on to something really special. It’s hard to write a patriotic song that doesn’t feel like it’s kind of too chest pounding. I wanted to do something that’s inspiring and uniting and looks back at our failures, and more than anything else, just our greatness and…it’s just such tough times out there right now for so many of my fans and so many folks out there that, hopefully, it’s a song that inspires people and makes ‘em feel good.”