Dierks Bentley
Dierks Bentley (who was given a family name as a first name) grew up in Phoenix, listening to George Strait and Hank Williams with his dad. He moved from listener to player when he picked up an electric guitar at 13. He started out playing the music his classmates listened to, mostly rock, until a friend played him the Hank Williams Jr. song, "Man to Man."
Bentley moved to Nashville, Tenn., at 19 and immersed himself in the local music scene, discovering that side of the city at a point when he was discouraged with the Nashville music business. It was a time of one cowboy-hatted, starched jeans-wearing singer after another. At that low point, he stumbled on the Station Inn, a club that is in many ways a "mecca" for bluegrass fans worldwide. He took some of what he learned from bluegrass and applied... More • Tabs • Website
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