Stars and Strings: Dierks Bentley

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Dierks Bentley talks touring, Sabrina Carpenter, and more backstage at 'Stars and Strings' with Katie Neal.

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00:00We are backstage inside the Hard Rock Artist Lounge at Odyssey Stars and Strings with Mr. Dirks Bentley.

00:09Hello. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you? It's beautiful. It's really nice in here, isn't it?

00:13It's really cool. Also, nice in your dressing room. Did you like the little gift we left in there for you?

00:18I love, there's a Lazy Boy. Is that what you're talking about? Yes, I am.

00:20Y'all, it's unbelievable how nice y'all took care of me. There's a Lazy Boy in there.

00:24So last year, I hurt my back putting a basketball hoop into my yard for my kids.

00:29For some reason, I ordered the Shaquille O'Neal version of basketball hoops.

00:32This thing required a four-foot-deep hole, a 24-by-24-by-48-inch hole.

00:39No.

00:39And I dug it myself, and then it rained. I had to re-dig all the mud out.

00:43It was about a six-month process.

00:45You were like, why did I do this?

00:46And just that whole motion right there, like over and over again, on my back as old as mine, it hurts.

00:52So I went on the tour last year, and I had a Lazy Boy that I like to kind of sit in every now and then

00:57and just kind of worked the back out. And you all brought a nice Lazy Boy here to replicate

01:00my backstage setup on the road.

01:02Yeah, I heard that you love a Lazy Boy.

01:04My back is better now, but I'll still get a Lazy Boy every now and then.

01:06Well, good. I'm glad to hear that.

01:07So tonight at Stars and Strings, you are going to share the stage with Hardy and Zach Topp.

01:11Yeah.

01:12And after touring with both of them, I'm very curious which one you have more incriminating information about.

01:18Definitely Zach.

01:19Really?

01:20Zach's a little bit like Luke Bryan in that he does a lot of stuff he probably shouldn't.

01:23But, you know, honestly, I mean, on a serious note, both those guys are guys I feel like I was in on early.

01:30You know, Hardy back before the pandemic, you know, I was a huge fan and wrote a lot of songs on my Gravel and Gold record.

01:36I'm a huge Hardy fan.

01:37I actually had to stop listening to his first record and the Crow record because I couldn't sleep at night.

01:42The songs are so good.

01:44They get stuck in your head.

01:45I had to, like, stop listening to his music.

01:47Around that time, I started listening to Zach Topp and, you know, just this bluegrass kid that's done good in country music.

01:53And his is the same way.

01:54His songs are so good.

01:55Certainly, you know, Sleep Like a Baby song and those songs get stuck in your head as well.

02:01But Zach is really fun on the road.

02:03He reminds me a lot of myself in the early years where, you know, you're just kind of living wide open and not afraid to crack a few beers in the middle of the day.

02:10You know, it doesn't matter what time it is.

02:12A.M., P.M.

02:13I also saw you were playing Pickleball Doubles, Team DBZT.

02:17You had a pretty disappointing season, right?

02:19We had a good season.

02:19Oh, you did?

02:20I thought it was not good.

02:21No, we ended on a high note.

02:22Oh, you did?

02:23All right.

02:24DBZT was taken on the Twin Towers.

02:27That's my fiddle player, Dan Hocalter, and my guitar player, Ben Helson, who's here.

02:31And it took us to the very last day of the tour in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to actually get the win.

02:37But DBZT got the win.

02:39And we never played another game.

02:41We haven't played since then.

02:42And I'm not sure if he's carrying that tradition out there on his tour now.

02:45But we had such a fun tour.

02:47I was going to say, I love the videos of you, like, getting him to do the ice bath with the cigarettes.

02:52Oh, my gosh.

02:53I mean, those guys.

02:54I think one negates the other, right?

02:55Those guys smoke and drink all day long.

02:57It's hilarious.

02:58Like I said, it reminds me a lot of me 20 years ago.

03:01Really darks.

03:03These guys are really fun.

03:04They've got a great band.

03:05Sax band is such a great band.

03:06It's such a fun group to be around.

03:08So I'm so happy to see their success.

03:09And Hardy, of course, is playing every big venue in the country.

03:12And definitely it's just like his career is like he's just taking a machete and he's just like carving out his own course.

03:18Yeah.

03:18You know, and I love what he does, too.

03:20So it's an honor to get a chance to.

03:22It's just fun to get a chance to be on stage with these two guys.

03:24You guys are going to have a very fun time out there.

03:26Yeah, absolutely.

03:27I also want to talk about your latest song, If You Know You Know.

03:29Tell me about this one.

03:31Yeah, I love this song.

03:32You know, I wrote it with my buddy Jim Beavers, who I've written songs like 5150 with and How Am I Doing and Sideways.

03:39It's just kind of a fun song about life on the road and just the life of a country artist and just someone that loves country music.

03:46So it's been a fun song to have out there, you know, streaming and get played on radio.

03:50And certainly we'll see how it feels next summer on the road when we're out there doing some dates with Luke Combs.

03:56Yeah, I was going to say the Luke tour.

03:58That'll be really fun.

03:59Yeah, it's going to be great.

04:00I'm excited for it.

04:02You know, it's been a while.

04:03It's been a few years, maybe 2012 maybe since I opened up for somebody.

04:08So it's kind of fun to go back and do it again.

04:11And I know the guy that's like one of the biggest guys in the game and playing stadiums across the country.

04:16And I'm a huge Luke Combs fan.

04:17I love his music.

04:18So still looking forward to going out there and just being part of his thing and supporting him in any way we can.

04:25Yeah, absolutely.

04:26I saw you were just in New York for the marathon.

04:28Your wife, Cassie, ran very quickly.

04:30She did.

04:31And you were like out on the course.

04:32I'm curious.

04:33Did anybody realize like, oh, my God, Dierks Bentley is standing next to me?

04:36Or were you able to like move through the crowd?

04:38Yeah, I mean, it's New York.

04:39You're able to kind of flow out there pretty good.

04:41I take a few pictures here and there.

04:43But really everyone's still focused on the runners.

04:44And I'm like in straight up like husband support mode.

04:49You know, it's hard if you ever, as anybody's ever watched a marathon, there's like a whole separate marathon you're doing as just a fan.

04:56Like you want to, you know, you're trying to see them at certain spots and you've got this tracker and you're trying to see where they're coming.

05:01The tracker isn't totally accurate to their bib.

05:04And so you're like, okay, she's got to be close.

05:05Now that you get the camera out because you want to videotape her for the kids.

05:09You're on content.

05:10And you're freaking out because there's so many people.

05:12And so it's a lot of work.

05:13And then I run across, you know, town with a backpack to Central Park.

05:16It was really a hard day for you.

05:18I think I should have gotten the medal, honestly, in the credit.

05:21Even though she ran a 753 pace for 26 miles, I think I should have gotten some sort of trophy, you know.

05:27That's insane.

05:28Your whole family is like extreme sports.

05:29I feel like you're always like on a bike or doing something crazy.

05:32Cass runs these like crazy fast marathons.

05:34Like very active family.

05:36Active, yeah.

05:37And my son is a big hockey player.

05:39Yes, and you're doing tons of travel hockey, right?

05:41Hockey family.

05:41Yeah, I'll be in Chicago tomorrow for hockey.

05:43And I'll be back.

05:44How about the girls?

05:45The girls are good.

05:46I got a little theater kid that does any theater things she can do.

05:49My oldest daughter is looking at colleges and my national anthem singer.

05:54And I was an Uber driver last night picking them up from Sabrina Carpenter.

05:58So I was one of them.

05:59Oh, my gosh.

05:59Oh, yeah.

06:00In Nashville, Tennessee.

06:01I went on Tuesday night.

06:03You did go, yeah.

06:04Yes, I did.

06:04And it was amazing.

06:05So I thought they had a great time.

06:05I was like pulled off to the side, the blink, the flashers going waiting for the.

06:09I will say to Sabrina, though, her concert gets that at 1045.

06:12It's pretty sweet.

06:13Oh, yeah.

06:13They run that.

06:14They run it like a.

06:15They know who their audience is.

06:16A lot of young girls got school the next day.

06:19Shout out to Sabrina.

06:20She knows how to pack a three-hour show into an hour and an hour and a half.

06:24I like her for that reason alone.

06:27She's great.

06:27I'm a big fan.

06:28You're in bed by 11, which is great.

06:30Yeah, thank you, Sabrina.

06:31Dierks Family, it's so great to see you.

06:32Thank you so much for being here.

06:33I know this is going to be a very fun night.

06:35Yeah, it's going to be awesome.

06:36I'm so excited to hear the crowd's reaction to Hardy and certainly Zach.

06:39It's going to be great.

06:40Yeah, there's going to be some good laughs out there.

06:42I know it.

06:43Yeah.

06:44Yeah.

06:49Yeah.

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