The 2023 CMA Awards nominees are out, and while there are plenty of well-deserved nominations, including Lainey Wilson‘s nine nominations, Jelly Roll getting five nods, and Carrie Underwood‘s Entertainer of the Year nomination, there are also numerous artists who were surprisingly omitted. Keep reading to find ten artists who were inexplicably left off of the list of nominees this…
Dierks Bentley‘s downtown Whiskey Row is soon going to host Whiskey Jam, a popular live music event in Nashville. Whiskey Jam has hosted more than 875 live events in the past 13 years, drawing talent of artists like Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, Morgan Wallen, Kacey Musgraves, Old Dominion, Scotty McCreery, Keith Urban and even Bentley. It was Ward Guenther,…
Dierks Bentley wants to keep it real in his music. His current single “Something Real,” written by Bentley along with Ross Copperman, HARDY, Ashley Gorley, and Luke Dick, was inspired by Bentley wanting to share more of himself with the rest of the world. “I found when I put songs out that are really personal, there’s a deeper connection…
Dierks Bentley is an even bigger fan of Jordan Davis, now that his Gravel & Gold Tour has wrapped. The Arizona native shared a sweet post on social media, along with a series of photos, praising Davis after the tour’s final show. “The love was real y’all!,” Bentley writes. “Between me and and my band and his, made…
Jordan Davis has spent part of this year on Dierks Bentley’s Gravel & Gold Tour, allowing Davis to not only open for one of his biggest musical heroes, but get to spend time with him as well. The tour has only solidified what Davis already knew: that Bentley was, and always would be, one of his favorite artists, and…
Alabama was the recipient of the prestigious Pinnacle Award at the recent CMA Fest, Dierks Bentley honored the group, which includes Randy Owen and Teddy Gentry, along with the late Jeff Cook, when presenting them with the trophy. “This award has only been handed out three times in the history of country music. Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney and Taylor…
Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row Nashville is one of four locations of restaurants the singer currently owns. Dierks had plenty of personal involvement in each of the Whiskey Row locations, but is especially fond of the one in Music City, since it’s in his own hometown. Stop by some night and you might even see Dierks up on stage! Whiskey…
Dierks Bentley has a brand-new single, “Something Real,” out now. The song, which follows his recent No. 1 hit, “Gold,” is from his latest Gravel & Gold album, released in February. “I wrote this song out in Colorado where I really go to recharge and get closer to the source, that being nature, those mountains and the great outdoors,” Bentley…
After hosting the CMA Fest TV special last year alongside Elle King, Dierks Bentley is reprising his role again in 2023, joined this year by King and Lainey Wilson. It’s a job Bentley is honored to have, thanks to his passionate support of the four-day event, held in the heart of Nashville. “Hosting the CMA Fest is the ultimate gig,”…
Dierks Bentley and Elle King are returning once again to host the CMA Fest TV special, but this year they will be joined by Lainey Wilson. The three singers will serve as the hosts of the three-hour primetime ABC show, airing on July 19. “I could not be more excited to welcome Dierks, Elle and Lainey as our CMA…
