Dierks Bentley Readies New Album 'The Mountain'
Dierks Bentley
Perennial country favorite Dierks Bentley  has revealed the first details of  his  upcoming ninth studio album  The Mountain.
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Set for release early this year   Bentley  says  the album  owes  its  creative genesis to a recent experience at Telluride Bluegrass Festival â a long-running roots music gathering held each year in the Rocky Mountains resort town of Telluride  Colorado.
The singer-songwriter has a well-established love of bluegrass and released  the bluegrass-inspired album  Up on the Ridge in 2010. His most recent album â 2016's Black â featured a more polished  rock-infused sound.  Bentley  describes The Mountain to Rolling Stone Country as a combination of those two musical impulses.
"The Mountain mixes Up on the Ridge with Black "  he  says. "This record covers more ground in that Up on the Ridge area than I thought it would. The most successful part of my career is in large part due to [songwriter-producer] Ross Copperman  and these sounds and ideas that he has. But we've reached a place where we've pushed that as far as we can  so how do we grab some of the stuff I love from the first part of my career and blow that up even more  and put it all together in a cauldron."
A new teaser video for the project released as part of the announcement seems to confirm that analysis  highlighting a marriage of roots instrumentation and a modern  rock-focused drive. In the video   Bentley  walks through a sweeping backcountry landscape as the fat-bottomed electric groove of The Mountain's title track plays in the background.
"Well I bet my soul on a six string gamble / I climbed like hell through the brush and the bramble / Even though I had my doubts / Told myself donât look down / And I turned that hill into a pile of gravel / It was only a mountain "  Bentley  sings.
Recorded and also largely written in Telluride  the album was produced by Copperman  Jon Randall and executive producer Arturo Buenahora Jr.  and features songs co-written by  Bentley  with hitmakers like Natalie Hemby  Luke Dick  Copperman  Randall  Jon Nite and Ashley Gorley.
 Bentley  previously debuted two new songs at a pair of year-end concerts in Las Vegas  road-testing the driving rocker "Burning Man" and optimistic ballad "Living" for enthusiastic crowds. His most-recent release is "Hold the Light " a collaboration with Bon Iver's S. Carey from the Only the Brave soundtrack memorializing the 19 firefighters who died battling a wildfire in  Bentley 's native Arizona in 2013.
[TGT] has revealed the first details of   [TGT]   upcoming ninth studio album  The Mountain.
Related Watch   [TGT] Perform Driving New Song 'Burning Man' "Somewhere on a Beach" singer road tests new tune at Las Vegas show
Set for release early this year    [TGT] says  the album  owes  its  creative genesis to a recent experience at Telluride Bluegrass Festival â a long-running roots music gathering held each year in the Rocky Mountains resort town of Telluride  Colorado.
The singer-songwriter has a well-established love of bluegrass and released  the bluegrass-inspired album  Up on the Ridge in 2010. His most recent album â 2016's Black â featured a more polished  rock-infused sound.   [TGT] describes The Mountain to Rolling Stone Country as a combination of those two musical impulses.
"The Mountain mixes Up on the Ridge with Black "  he  says. "This record covers more ground in that Up on the Ridge area than I thought it would. The most successful part of my career is in large part due to [songwriter-producer] Ross Copperman  and these sounds and ideas that he has. But we've reached a place where we've pushed that as far as we can  so how do we grab some of the stuff I love from the first part of my career and blow that up even more  and put it all together in a cauldron."
A new teaser video for the project released as part of the announcement seems to confirm that analysis  highlighting a marriage of roots instrumentation and a modern  rock-focused drive. In the video   Bentley  walks through a sweeping backcountry landscape as the fat-bottomed electric groove of The Mountain's title track plays in the background.
"Well I bet my soul on a six string gamble / I climbed like hell through the brush and the bramble / Even though I had my doubts / Told myself donât look down / And I turned that hill into a pile of gravel / It was only a mountain "  Bentley  sings.
Recorded and also largely written in Telluride  the album was produced by Copperman  Jon Randall and executive producer Arturo Buenahora Jr.  and features songs co-written by  Bentley  with hitmakers like Natalie Hemby  Luke Dick  Copperman  Randall  Jon Nite and Ashley Gorley.
 Bentley  previously debuted two new songs at a pair of year-end concerts in Las Vegas  road-testing the driving rocker "Burning Man" and optimistic ballad "Living" for enthusiastic crowds. His most-recent release is "Hold the Light " a collaboration with Bon Iver's S. Carey from the Only the Brave soundtrack memorializing the 19 firefighters who died battling a wildfire in  Bentley 's native Arizona in 2013.