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Bentley returns "Home" to number one

Monday, March 12, 2012 – Dierks Bentley scored his ninth career number one hit today as Home takes the top spot on both the Billboard and Mediabase charts. Bentley nudged out Kenny Chesney's Reality.

The title track off Bentley's chart topping disc, also "Home," is also currently nominated for Song of the Year at the 47th Annual ACM Awards set to air April 1 on CBS at 8 p.m. Eastern.

"It's been so cool to see fans reacting to this song on the road...the idea of Home and what that means to different people has been really inspiring," said Bentley from tour in Australia. "I'm really proud to have written this song with my friends Brett Beavers and Dan Wilson, and it's extra special for me personally to be partof Dan's first number one hit on the country charts."


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CD review - Black Dierks Bentley seems intent on expanding his musical boundaries, but he may have overreached too much in eschewing where he came from. That most evident by the dominating textured beats. Producer Ross Copperman and Bentley seem hell bent on injecting odd meters and sounds, sharp detours from past efforts. Unfortunately, the atmospheric beats muddy up the vocal delivery on "Freedom," a song that stretches far too long at almost four minutes. Bentley also channels U2 with its ...
CD review - Riser Change was in store for Dierks Bentley when it came to recording his seventh album, "Riser." On the personal front, he lost his father and added to his family, clearly affecting the subject matter of his latest. On the musical front, he traded long-time producer Brett Beavers, producer of every disc except "Up on the Ridge," for Ross Copperman, who has enjoyed more success as a writer, including several previous tracks for Bentley. Bentley embraces current trends in country ...


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