{"id":1316840,"date":"2019-11-20T04:25:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1814931"},"modified":"2019-11-20T04:25:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:25:56","slug":"dierk-bentley-is-living-large-on-his-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/dierk-bentley-is-living-large-on-his-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Dierk Bentley is \u201cLiving\u201d Large on His Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:682325?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/morrise\/\" title=\"Posts by Edward Morris\" rel=\"author\">Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n3h ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>One can only hope that Dierks Bentley is as euphoric on his 44th birthday today (Nov. 20) as he was in the music video for \u201cLiving,\u201d his latest hit. In it, he looks to be having more fun than a gazelle bounding across a field of trampolines as he runs and tumbles with his adoring son. He\u2019s the very model of a doting father.<\/p>\n<p>Now contrast the Daddy Dierks of that video with the hot-blooded young buck we see in his first video \u2014 \u201cWhat Was I Thinkin&#8217;\u201d \u2014 which came out in 2003. There he\u2019s the bane of an ill-tempered, shotgun-wielding father who\u2019s determined to protect his daughter from Young Dierks\u2019 lascivious advances.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTqra4YSsaM?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fTqra4YSsaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>What a difference 16 year makes. <\/p>\n<p>Between these two symbolic videos, Bentley has done some growing. He\u2019s released nine studio albums, two of which have gone platinum and five gold. He\u2019s racked up 18 No. 1 singles, including such chart-toppers as \u201cCome a Little Closer,\u201d \u201cFree and Easy (Down the Road I Go),\u201d \u201cSideways,\u201d \u201cHome,\u201d \u201cI Hold On\u201d and \u201cDrunk On A Plane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, \u201cWhat Was I Thinking\u201d was such an infectiously good-humored song that it went No. 1, an almost unheard-of feat for a brand new artist. Looking over all of Bentley\u2019s achievements, the Academy of Country Music presented him its Merle Haggard Spirit Award in 2018.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-ExrsHJ_ZY?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-ExrsHJ_ZY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bentley now has his own series of Whiskey Row bars, three in Arizona, one in Nashville and a fifth just announced to be located in Denver. Last year, he launched the first of his annual Seven Peaks Festival in Buena Vista, Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>CMT has chronicled Bentley\u2019s journey from the beginning, and, as we often do on our artist birthday celebrations, we foraged through our archives and found these three Dierks Bentley origin stories.<\/p>\n<p>The first explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1476902\/dierks-bentley-what-was-he-thinkin\/\">what led to Bentley\u2019s debut album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second peeks into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1479437\/good-thinkin-dierks-bentley-celebrates-first-no-1\/\">his first No. 1 party<\/a> (for \u201cWhat Was I Thinking,\u201d of course).<\/p>\n<p>And the third covers his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1500952\/dierks-bentley-shares-spotlight-at-platinum-party\/\">first platinum party<\/a> at which newscaster Katie Couric appears.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iv8Fu7GIutg?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iv8Fu7GIutg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Edward Morris is a veteran of country music journalism. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is a frequent contributor to CMT.com. <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1814931\/dierk-bentley-is-living-large-on-his-birthday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Edward Morris 3h ago One can only hope that Dierks Bentley is as euphoric on his 44th birthday today (Nov. 20) as he was in the music video for \u201cLiving,\u201d his latest hit. In it, he looks to be having more fun than a gazelle bounding across a field of trampolines as he runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1316840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:07:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}