Showing posts with label Dierks Bentley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dierks Bentley. Show all posts
Aug 6, 2013
Jul 9, 2013
May 15, 2013
Mar 1, 2013
Dierks Bentley Sings With Bovine
After the Carrie and Taylor singing with goats videos, I remembered thinking of this country singer/animal association several years ago... and voila: I made a shoddy, badly timed and edited video! (seriously, it's the first time I've ever edited a video, period)
Enjoy! (?)
Feb 19, 2013
Sep 4, 2012
Jun 21, 2012
Mar 16, 2012
Feb 1, 2012
Jan 10, 2012
Jan 9, 2012
Is Dierks Bentley a Song Thief?
Surely by now, you've heard about the Twitter dust-up between Jason Isbell and Dierks Bentley over the weekend. If not, go read this article and get up-to-date.
Perhaps we should have noticed something was up a bit earlier.... when the single cover for "Home" was released.
Perhaps we should have noticed something was up a bit earlier.... when the single cover for "Home" was released.
Nov 29, 2011
Jun 19, 2011
Jul 22, 2010
Apr 20, 2010
.99 Review: Dierks Bentley - Up on the Ridge
Dierks Bentley - Up on the RidgeListen to it here.
The People's Take:
c'mon dierks (1 Star) - sounds like all his other songs but worse. c'mon dierks, your a better artist than this
-Gliko30
New Direction (5 Stars) - Great new song from Dierks. His sound sounds great and like something he has never done before! Very bluegrass. Can't wait for the new album!!!!
-timmerwoj
My Take:
So this is the first single from Dierks' long rumored bluegrass album that ended up being consolidated into this year's regular release from him... Well since "Up on the Ridge" is neither traditional bluegrass nor typical radio country fare, I can only assume they put songs from each genre into a musical version of the large hadron collider and smashed them into one another, creating a hybrid of the two (the subsequent energy release creating a chain of seismic events that led to the eruption in Iceland).
To be honest, I hated this the first time I heard it, mostly because the first version I heard was a crappy low bitrate internet rip (remember the early Napster days with the beeps and boops and static?) - which made the chorus sound pretty much like a cow mooing (which my wife thinks Dierks sounds like anyway). So anyway, I purchased the proper single today on iTunes and was pleasantly surprised.
Lyrics aside, this is a fresh sounding song that will stand out on Clearchannel radio. It's not bluegrass, but there's plenty of plucking around. It also features a moaning, understated chorus that stubbornly refuses to jab you with a sharp hook but reels you in only after repeated listens. Doubtful you'd see most of Dierks' contemporaries go without a soaring or raging chorus.
Lyrically, it's nothing you haven't heard before - a song about taking it easy in the great outdoors - though it does hint at the usage of intoxicating substances beyond just the moonshine mentioned (and it was released on 4/20... cute).
Playing like a more laid back version of Brad Paisley's "Mud on the Tires," "Up..." is a refreshingly low key tune that should be played around many a bon/campfire this spring and summer. For a couple of reasons already mentioned, I won't swear it's top 5-bound, but commercial radio needs more songs like this.
Total Value: .84/.99
The Checklist:
Church/God
Mama
Boots
Name Dropping
Dying Person
County Fair
Lost Love
•Love
Hometown/Country Pride
Kindly Advice
Truck
•Whiskey (moonshine)
Beer
•Life Affirmation
USA
Soldiers
Pop Sheen
Star Power
Jan 23, 2010
Dierks Bentley Parody (Domino Mashup)
Okay, last parody for a while and this one's an odd duck. It's a parody and a mash-up... with this.
Enjoy (?)
I Want Some Sweet Potato Pie
(Parody of Dierks Bentley's "I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes" incorporating lyrics from Domino's "Sweet Potato Pie")
Well I've been thinkin' bout going to the movies
But there ain't nothin' like a bunch of hoochies
Ooh wee, just look a'here, done found a trick
I'm that guy, and I need to have a lick
Do you understand?
(CHORUS 1)
Been smokin' weed but girl I really need that sweet potato pie
I want a chunk of that funky stuff so break it off just right
All I need is a girl who is proper and fly
I want some sweet potato pie... that's right
I want that sweet potato pie
(VERSE 2)
That's right, I've been getting messed up off the chronic
That tree, wacky weed or whatever you wanna call it
But I've also been sippin' me some mofo gin
Ain't that romantic, won't you let me in
Or maybe your twin
(REPEAT CHORUS)
(BRIDGE)
Here comes the D, yeah one, two, three
Gonna make you say Whoo wee!
(CHORUS 2)
Been smokin' weed but girl I really need that sweet potato pie
I want a chunk of that funky stuff so break it off just right
As long as you don't mind that I'm drunk and I'm high
I want some sweet potato pie... that's right
(OUTRO)
I want some sweet potato pie... oh
Girl... I need that sweet potato pie
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