Dierks Bentley appeared on CBS Mornings Thursday (March 2nd). He chatted about his new album, Gravel & Gold, the reason he returned to Nashville from Colorado and his path to country music stardom.

Country music star @DierksBentley has turned gravel into gold, starting with a tour that didn’t go as planned to becoming an “elder statesman,” creating room for up-and-coming artists.

At the end of the day, though, he says, “I'm still the same guy, playing the same guitar.” pic.twitter.com/Vj7gx8I3VA

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 2, 2023

Parker McCollum will release the music video for his song “Rest Of My Life” on Thursday (March 2nd) at 1pm ET/Noon CT.

Rest Of My Life music video out tomorrow. https://t.co/jc54Ek0vli pic.twitter.com/M70KJ5fBeV

— Parker McCollum (@ParkerMcCollum) March 1, 2023

Kacey Musgraves is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the release of her Same Trailer, Different Park with a special limited-edition zoetrope design on vinyl. It’s available for preorder now here and is expected to begin shipping the week of March 17th. You can watch the record spin under a bright light through your phone camera to see the zoetrope animation come to life. The collection was originally released March 19th, 2013 and includes her songs “Follow Your Arrow,” “Dandelion,” “Merry Go ‘Round” and “Blowin’ Smoke.”

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Parker McCollum, kicked down the doors during his performance at the Opening Day celebration of the famed RODEOHOUSTON selling over 70,000 tickets. Last year, Parker made one of his childhood dreams come true by making his first RODEOHOUSTON appearance and performing for a packed house. The electrifying show garnered him an invitation back to kick off this year’s season of what is certain to be another spectacular run for this time-honored tradition.

“I have so much to be grateful for. I couldn’t have imagined it better. I feel like I’m living in a movie. Houston is my favorite city in the world. I appreciate y’all loving us so much.”
-Parker McCollum

Recently, Parker revealed the title and cover art for his forthcoming studio album, Never Enough, out May 12^th via MCA Nashville. His current single, “Handle On You,” from the album is Top 10-and-climbing at Country radio.

This month McCollum kicked off a packed 2023 touring schedule selling out shows in Columbus, Detroit, and Cincinnati. In addition to headlining dates in major markets, the dedicated road-warrior can be seen performing at some of country music’s high-profile festivals including Stagecoach, Country Thunder and iHeartCountry Festival, plus sharing the bill with Morgan Wallen and Eric Church later this year.

A full list of McCollum’s upcoming tour dates and tickets are available here.

Keith Urban, Little Big Town and Mickey Guyton will perform as part of the NCAA’s March Madness Music Festival taking place March 31st – April 2nd in Houston, Texas. Tim McGraw, Lil Nas X and Maggie Rogers will also perform during the event.

On Saturday, April 1, GRAMMY® Award-nominated artist/producer/performer Maggie Rogers will tip-off the day’s festivities from the Move by Coca-Cola Stage. GRAMMY® award-winning American rapper and musician Lil Nas X will close out the concert in star-studded fashion. Registration for tickets to Move by Coca-Cola begins today at 1p.m. ET.

On Sunday, April 2, Capital One JamFest® will be co-headlined by Tim McGraw and Keith Urban, two of the industry’s most dynamic live performers.  Little Big Town and Mickey Guyton will kick off the day’s event making for a can’t-miss festival experience.

Capital One debit and credit cardholders, excluding private label cards, will get exclusive early access to free tickets for Capital One JamFest® on Wednesday, March 8, at 10 a.m. ET through Friday, March 10, at 10 a.m. ET or as supplies last. Registration for the general public will go live on Friday, March 10, at 10 a.m. ET. In addition to getting first access to the free tickets, cardholders will receive instructions on arrival times, where to line up for festival entry, and important day of information.

Fans can register for free music festival tickets at ncaa.com/marchmadness/musicfest.

Performers and registration information for the AT&T Block Party on Friday, March 31, will be announced at a later date.

Kip Moore has released the official music video for his new song, “Damn Love,” the title track to his upcoming album, available April 28th.

Kip is set to tour Australia beginning March 11th with a show at the Dittmann Bull Pit Country Fest in Bloomsbury.

Kip Moore is getting ready to embark on a sold-out tour of Australia, beginning with a show at the Dittmann Bull Pit Country Fest in Bloomsbury March 11th. The trek Down Under will also include stops in Melbourne, Sydney, Willowbank and Auckland, before he travels to South Africa for more headlining shows, including a two-night stand in Cape Town at the beginning of April.

For his shows Down Under, he says he and his band experience a sort of euphoria when playing to those crowds. “I think we’re most excited about just experiencing the euphoric nature that that Australian crowd always provides us. I think as entertainers that’s all you can ever hope for is that someone pours into you the same thing that you’re trying to pour into them, and Australia gets us that way.”

He does wish he had a little more downtime to explore and enjoy one of his favorite activities. “Unfortunately, I will not have as much downtime as I’d like to have. I would love to surf. I would love to experience the Outback, but we’re kind of in and out really fast. So once again, I don’t really get to experience the country the way I wish I could.”

Kip recently announced the title and release date of his fifth studio album, Damn Love. The 13-song collection will be available April 28th.

Jordan Davis will perform on Live With Kelly and Ryan on Tuesday (February 28th). Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans will also appear. Check local listings.

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Dierks Bentley is set to perform on NBC’s Today Show on Tuesday (February 28th). He’ll also appear on CBS Mornings on Thursday (March 2nd). Dierks performed “Sun Sets in Colorado” from his new album, Gravel & Gold on NBC’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night (February 27th).

We’re on @FallonTonight! Playing Sunsets in Colorado with @sam_bush helping out with the pickin’ and a sangin’!@jimmyfallon pic.twitter.com/U880tFKR62

— Dierks Bentley (@DierksBentley) February 27, 2023

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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 10^th 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.”

Parker McCollum is getting a “handle” on headlining the Houston Rodeo. Last year, he sold out his debut appearance, performing for a crowd of over 73,000 people, and this year, he’s set to open the entire 2023 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo on Tuesday night (February 28th).

The Texas native always dreamed of one day performing at the Houston Rodeo, and he feels this is the biggest goal he could accomplish…so far.

“Performing at Houston Rodeo on opening night is kind of the pinnacle for me. Really the one thing I set out to do when I first picked up a guitar, I did it, and now I’m getting to do it twice, and now I’m getting to do it on opening night,” says Parker. “So, obviously, I want to keep going and keep growing this thing and see how big of a level we can get to, but if this is as big as it ever got, you know I’d be totally okay and sleep just fine at night knowing that I accomplished my ultimate goal, which is playing the Houston Rodeo. Everything else is just a bonus.”

Parker, who’s sitting inside the Top 10 on the country charts with “Handle On You,” recently announced the release date for his upcoming album, Never Enough, available May 12th.

We have compiled an array of content — a variety of liners and soundbites – from DIERKS BENTLEY to equip you with everything you might need to put together your own album radio special; roll-out tracks surrounding the release of his new GRAVEL & GOLD record to use in news feeds, specials and much more. Check out all of details below (including audio liners and soundbites, as well as transcriptions) to create your own content surrounding DIERKS’ new album release.

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There comes a time in any climb up one of Colorado’s famous 14,000 foot peaks when, after a few hours of striving, you pause on a ledge, turn around, and marvel at the vista and the ground you’ve covered. That’s where Dierks Bentley finds himself, 20 years into an exceptional career in 21st century country music. The view is breathtaking for sure, but this is a multi-platinum artist in peak shape, his eyes fixed on the summit.

The 2020 pandemic gave Bentley a moment to breathe and think about his journey to this point and the possibilities for the heights that lay ahead. The break led to a new burst of creativity. With one foot in Nashville and one in his beloved second home of Colorado, he worked harder than he ever had on an album – his landmark tenth, Gravel & Gold.

It’s a diverse, 14-track album – written almost entirely by Dierks with his closest collaborators – about perspective and self-awareness at many levels from the personal to the professional. It’s also a testament to the many strains of country music Bentley has mastered and cultivated in his career, from the arena shaker to the barroom weeper to the bluegrass fireballer. In its opening track “Same Old Me,” Bentley recognizes that midlife demands adjustments and adaptations – as well as nurturing the inner fire of the 18-year-old country music fanatic who first arrived in Nashville in the 1990s. Fifty minutes later, we’re in an intimate circle with Music City’s greatest pickers, trading licks and laughs on a witty song about getting high. It was no easy thing to encompass in one record the values and sounds that have defined Bentley across two decades of hits and millions of touring miles, but he’s pulled it off. The story of Gravel & Gold is one of renewal, family, persistence and devotion to making the music as authentic and lasting as it can possibly be.

GRAVEL & GOLD Track List:

1. “Same Ol’ Me” (Luke Dick, Jon Randall, Dierks Bentley)
2. “Sun Sets In Colorado” (Ross Copperman, Tommy Lee James, Josh Osborne)
3. “Heartbreak Drinking Tour” (Luke Dick, Ashley Gorley, Michael Hardy, Ross Copperman, Dierks Bentley)
4. “Something Real” (Luke Dick, Ashley Gorley, Michael Hardy, Ross Copperman, Dierks Bentley)
5. “Still” (Jeff Hyde, Ryan Tyndell, Jeremy Spillman, Dierks Bentley)
6. “Beer At My Funeral” (Brett Beavers, Jim Beavers)
7. “Cowboy Boots” (Featuring Ashley McBryde) (Casey Brown, Jordan Minton, Hunter Phelps, Dierks Bentley)
8. “Gold” (Luke Dick, Ashley Gorley, Ross Copperman, Dierks Bentley)
9. “Walking Each Other Home” (Luke Dick, John Osborne, Dierks Bentley)
10. “Roll On” (Brett Beavers, Jim Beavers, Dierks Bentley)
11. “All The Right Places” (Josh Osborne, Ross Copperman, Dierks Bentley)
12. “Ain’t All Bad” (Casey Brown, Jordan Minton, Hunter Phelps, Dierks Bentley)
13. “Old Pickup” (Neil Thrasher, Tony Martin, Michael Dulaney)
14. “High Note” (Featuring Billy Strings)  (Jim Beavers, Charlie Worsham)

On Thursday night (February 23rd) ahead of the release of his 10th studio album GRAVEL & GOLD, multi-Platinum singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley performed a two-hour set at the Country Music Hall of Fame‘s CMA Theater where he played new music for the first time while mixing in No. One hits and older album cuts as “the event was as much an album release celebration as it was a career retrospective for Bentley,” (American Songwriter). Earning multiple standing ovations, Bentley’s setlist spanned 20 years and followed his musical journey with special guests including Sam Bush, Jason Carter, Ronnie and Del McCoury, The War And Treaty and co-writer Luke Dick joining throughout the night.  Fans can relive five must-see moments from “An Evening with Dierks Bentley: The Road to Gravel & Gold” here.

1.) “Sun Sets in Colorado”
Bentley expressed gratitude for the Bluegrass community that took him under their wing before sharing with the crowd that he had only one person in mind to play on the new track when it came time to record it in the studio – Bluegrass Hall of Fame and founding New Grass Revival member Sam Bush. The performance earned the night’s first standing ovation.

2.) “Still”
Backed by only acoustic guitars, Bentley’s distinct vocal led a stripped down version of this favorite off the new album. After getting swept away in the moment, Bentley paused to vulnerably ask to restart the song, sharing how important it was to him to get the lyrics right.

3.) “Walking Each Other Home”
“You can’t change the world with one song, but it feels good to try,” Bentley said while performing alongside co-writer Luke Dick.  He went on to express gratitude for the gift of connection with the poignant “Walking Each Other Home.”

4.) “Pride (In the Name of Love)”
Bentley has performed multiple renditions of U2’s iconic “Pride (In the Name of Love)” over the years, but last night’s combination of Ronnie and Del McCoury, Jason Carter, Sam Bush with The War And Treaty made for unparalleled harmonies and instrumentation that brought the crowd to their feet.

5.) “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)”
Over the years “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)” has been a staple song during Bentley’s full-throttle tours. To close the one-night only show, Bentley took to the stage with his fifth No. One and Platinum hit “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)” while backed by the evening’s guests who have each been part of the journey to Bentley’s GRAVEL & GOLD.

The 10th album landmark speaks to how time has flown in Bentley’s unique, 21st-century career. He landed his first publishing deal in 2001 and released his debut album in 2003, producing an instant No. One single. The years since have revealed a rare consistency that’s fueled longevity – eight more albums that reached the top of the Country sales charts, resulting in 21 No. One songs, eight billion streams, three CMA Awards, 14 GRAMMY® nominations and membership into the Grand Ole Opry. Trendy sounds have ebbed and flowed around him over these two decades, but fans have relied on Bentley for something more nourishing and individual. He also has created professional endeavors outside of the music with his Flag & Anthem lifestyle collection Desert Son, along with his “Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row” franchise hosting four locations. For more information visit www.Dierks.com