Bentley, Hiatt, Urban go Front and Center
Keith Urban, John Hiatt, Counting Crows, The Fray, John Hiatt, Paul Rodgers, Richie Sambora, Joe Satriani and Richard Thompson all appear.
"This season could be our best," said Executive Producer Don Maggi. "We're featuring some of the finest names in pop, rock and country music, who have collectively sold millions of albums, won numerous awards and are easily some of the best live entertainers in the business."
The 10 shows will begin feeding to public television stations starting Sept. 30.
The line-up is:
Counting Crows (Sept. 30)
John Hiatt (Oct. 7)
Dierks Bentley (Oct. 14)
Joe Satriani (Oct. 21)
Lady Antebellum (Oct. 28)
Keith Urban (Nov. 4)
Paul Rodgers (Nov. 11)
The Fray (Nov. 18)
Richard Thompson (Nov. 25)
Richie Sambora (Dec. 2)
"The core of country music is its songs, and the CMA established the CMA Songwriters Series 10 years ago to recognize a really important part of our genre, the songwriters," said Bentley. "We don't typically take the time to thank the songwriters, so collaborating with the CMA and Front and Center was the perfect place - a night with five guys on stools sharing stories, songs and whiskey."
All episodes of Front and Center are directed by Pierre and Francois Lamoureux of FogoLabs.
More news for Dierks Bentley
- 06/13/25: Bentley returns with "Broken Branches"
- 05/27/25: Bentley creates fund backing mental health aid to music community
- 05/09/25: Bentley is "Standing in the Sun"
- 04/18/25: Bentley prefers "Well Well Whiskey"
- 04/15/25: Bentley deals with "Broken Branches"
- 03/14/25: Bentley, Wilson think "Cold Beer Can"
- 02/17/25: Bentley announces Broken Branches Tour
- 02/17/25: Aldean, Bentley, Zimmerman headline Watershed
CD reviews for Dierks Bentley
Dierks Bentley opens his first self-produced album with a song about personally stability, "Same Ol' Me." Although its lyric explains how while life circumstances may change, Bentley basically remains the same person. The same thing, though, can also be said about the country star's music. He's been recording for 20 years now. Yet Bentley has come this far with his integrity still intact. He's back with a strong, 14-song set that, like a good beverage, feels good ...
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 ...
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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