Dierks Bentley just scored his 19th No. 1 hit with “Living,” which topped both the Country Aircheck/Mediabase chart, as well as the Billboard country chart. It’s the third chart-topper from his latest album, The Mountain, and the song has been the soundtrack of his life, especially over the last few years.
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“The bar for living is so low as a musician on the road, so we really made it a personal challenge for me and the band to kind of like do more stuff during the day on the road. It’s just a big ole ‘Live Life’ on the road, and that’s where the idea for the song started,” says Dierks. “I just feel like it kind of became the core of the album, this whole theme of like gratitude and living life and making the most of every day. It’s not about the moments that, it’s not about skydiving or bullriding. It’s about just, it could be just watching your kid play hockey and being focused on that and not watching your iphone. It could be just appreciating that it’s sunny outside and taking a moment to recognize that.”
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Dierks has a handful of CMA nominations this year, including Male Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single and Music Video of the Year for “Burning Man,” featuring Brothers Osborne. Carrie Underwood hosts The 53rd Annual CMA Awards with special guest hosts Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton. The ceremony will broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 13th at 8pm ET on ABC.
Audio / Dierks Bentley’s latest No. 1 song, “Living,” is a pretty powerful song.
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“It’s a powerful song. I think it’s a party song in kind of a slower way, but it has a bigger effect because it recharges your batteries and makes you leave the show maybe taking a little extra time to think about things like that.”
Audio / DIERKS BENTLEY TALKS ABOUT HOW HE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR HIS NEW SONG, "LIVING."
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” Living’ started from the road, actually, and just the lack of living that you sometimes can do on a tour bus, right? You sit in the bus all day long, then you go play the show, and you sit in the bus all day long and nobody’s doing any living. We kind of have this funny thing we started with the band where if someone went to Walgreen’s, it was a really big deal. ‘Wow, man, you went out and lived some life today. You actually went to Walgreen’s. Wow!’ The bar for living is so low as a musician on the road, so we really made it a personal challenge for me and the band to kind of like do more stuff during the day on the road. It’s just a big ole ‘Live Life’ on the road, and that’s where the idea for the song started. I brought it out to Colorado when I was doing that songwriting retreat with everybody, and I wrote it with three other guys, and I just feel like it kind of became the core of the album, this whole theme of like gratitude and living life and making the most of every day. It’s not about the moments that, it’s not about skydiving or bullriding. It’s about just, it could be just watching your kid play hockey and being focused on that and not watching your iphone. It could be just appreciating that it’s sunny outside and taking a moment to recognize that.”
