Dierks Bentley will hit the road with pal, Miranda Lambert, on the Locked & Reloaded Tour on Thursday (January 17th) in Columbia, South Carolina. Dierks upped the ante for the trek with a new set and more bells and whistles than he’s had in the past. “Just got the checkbook out and started writing some checks for [laughs] a new set, and let’s get some video…and let’s pretend this is the last tour we’re ever gonna do,” says the “Tip It On Back” singer. “What would I do? Well, we’d have a killer set that we could climb around and shoot lights through it and make it something really exciting and new for us and for our fans.” He also will showcase a nice big video screen behind the set.

This isn’t the first time Dierks and Miranda have toured together. They hit the road on Dierks 2006-2007 Locked and Loaded trek.
 
AUDIO: Dierks Bentley will have a brand new set when he hits the road on the Locked & Reloaded Tour with pal, Miranda Lambert.

Dierks Bentley (more bells & whistles) OC: …for the fans. :46
“This is one of those tours where it feels like it’s a chance to go back and relive those high school days a little bit with Miranda and her camp. We get along so well. Just got the checkbook out and started writing some checks for [laughs] a new set and let’s get some video…and let’s pretend this is the last tour we’re ever gonna do. What would we do? Well, we’d have a killer set that we could climb around and shoot lights through it and make it something really exciting and new for us and for our fans. And what could we do video-wise? We really wanted to have as wide a screen as we possibly could use, so that means using projectors and that means just getting like [off mic] those two little bad boys up there that are fairly new stuff technology-wise. Just trying to find a good blend between keeping the motion of the show and the rawness of the show, and so we’re using a little bit of that video element to make it fun for us and fun for the fans.”