{"id":1317500,"date":"2020-01-02T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1816129"},"modified":"2020-01-02T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:04:27","slug":"the-legitness-of-dierks-bentleys-alter-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/the-legitness-of-dierks-bentleys-alter-ego\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legitness of Dierks Bentley\u2019s Alter Ego"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:287198?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\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n7m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Whenever a country artist makes a bold move, I always have a few questions. <\/p>\n<p>Actually, make that about a thousand questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B60r2Vkh_FC\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>So on Thursday morning (Jan. 2) when Dierks Bentley\u2019s band\u2019s alter ego \u2014 Hot Country Knights, the self-declared best band in the history of world \u2014 shared that they\u2019d signed a record deal, my curiosity was piqued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t7keuw5uhAY?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\/t7keuw5uhAY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Is this for real?<\/p>\n<p>Will the band actually release an album? <\/p>\n<p>Will their music sound like the 90s kind of music they lean into when they \u201copen\u201d for Bentley on tour?<\/p>\n<p>Are their singles going to be similar to the covers they play from the artists they love? Like Alan Jackson, Mark Chesnutt, John Michael Montgomery, Sawyer Brown, Clay Walker, Joe Diffie and Garth Brooks. The band is very, very good at Brooks songs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9tSpiOkv9U?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\/q9tSpiOkv9U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>And Brooks &amp; Dunn. Will they keep this kind of magic alive and well?<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i3wnBk8RBgA?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\/i3wnBk8RBgA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>They\u2019ve been at this thing for five years. Why sign with a label now?<\/p>\n<p>Will frontman Doug Douglason become the official face of the band? Or will all the guys \u2014 Barry Van Ricky, Monte Montgomery, Trevor Travis, and Terry Dvoraczekynski \u2014 have a chance to shine?<\/p>\n<p>How long do mullet, shag and permed wigs last?<\/p>\n<p>Will their egos ever get the best of their alter-ego?<\/p>\n<p>How will they change their live show now that they are a major-label act? <\/p>\n<p>According to a press release about the record deal, the band promises to bring real \u201990s country music back to a format that\u2019s been drowning in male sensitivity, cashmere cardigan sweaters and programmed drum loops. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome artists out there tried to put the \u2018O\u2019 back in country, that was a thing for a while\u2026. but what it\u2019s really missing is the \u2018T,\u2019\u201d Douglason (Dierks Bentley) said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountry music has Low-T right now\u2026it could use a pick me up, if you know what I mean. Those record label people over at Universal finally realized that only the Knights could be up to a task this big and hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HCK is set to open for Bentley during a two-night gig in Las Vegas on Feb. 14-15. <\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1816129\/the-legitness-of-dierks-bentleys-alter-ego\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 7m ago Whenever a country artist makes a bold move, I always have a few questions. Actually, make that about a thousand questions. So on Thursday morning (Jan. 2) when Dierks Bentley\u2019s band\u2019s alter ego \u2014 Hot Country Knights, the self-declared best band in the history of world \u2014 shared that they\u2019d [&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-1317500","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 19:45:12","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\/1317500","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=1317500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}