{"id":4957,"date":"2012-02-17T21:20:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:20:58","slug":"dierks-bentley-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/dierks-bentley-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DIERKS BENTLEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4958\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DIERKS-BENTLEY-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DIERKS-BENTLEY-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DIERKS-BENTLEY-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>D<\/strong><strong>IERKS BENTLEY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Home<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Capitol Nashville]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Contemporary country success is often about establishing a persona and then reiterating it at every turn. Become the \u201cI\u2019m from the country\u201d guy, the \u201cI love America\u201d guy, the \u201cI love to party\u201d guy or the \u201cI\u2019m free to party in the country \u2019cause I live in America\u201d guy and hammer that home. Dierks Bentley is a big-tent, big-idea exception to all that. He\u2019s comfortable on stages with bluegrass legends Del McCoury and Sam Bush or rock luminaries like the Black Keys\u2019 Dan Auerbach, and he knowingly knocked himself off country radio playlists with 2010\u2019s rootsy, acoustic-based <em>Up on the Ridge<\/em>. <em>Home<\/em> is Bentley\u2019s return to radio-ready sonics, but Bentley inhabits that territory without pandering or dumbing down. It opens with the uptempo romp \u201cAm I the Only One\u201d and is back-loaded with delights including \u201cWhen You Gonna Come Around\u201d (a lovely duet with Little Big Town\u2019s Karen Fairchild) and the haunting closer \u201cThinking of You.\u201d \u2013Peter Cooper<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIERKS BENTLEY Home [Capitol Nashville] Contemporary country success is often about establishing a persona and then reiterating it at every turn. Become the \u201cI\u2019m from the country\u201d guy, the \u201cI love America\u201d guy, the \u201cI love to party\u201d guy or the \u201cI\u2019m free to party in the country \u2019cause I live in America\u201d guy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3109,3032,2273,3108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}