Dierks Bentley - Up on the Ridge
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Artist: Dierks BentleyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2010-06-08
Music Label: Capitol Nashville
Soundtracks:
- Up On The Ridge(Written by Angelo Petraglia, Dierks Bentley, Background Vocals by Alison Krauss)
- Fallin' For You(Written by Shawn Camp, Paul Kennerly, Background Vocals by Chris Stapleton)
- Senor (Tales of Yankee Power) (with The Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile)(Written by Bob Dylan)
- Rovin' Gambler (with The Punch Brothers)(Written by Jon Randall Stewart, Dierks Bentley)
- Draw Me A Map(Written by Jon Randall Stewart, Dierks Bentley, Background Vocals by Alison Krauss)
- Bad Angel (Featuring Miranda Lambert, Jamey Johnson)(Written by Verlon Thompson, Suzi Ragsdale)
- Fiddlin' Around(Written by John Scott Sherrill, Shawn Camp, Jeff Austin, Background Vocals by Vince Gill)
- You're Dead to Me(Written by Tim O'Brien, Jon Randall Stewart, Dierks Bentley, Background vocals by Tim O'Brien)
- Pride (In The Name Of Love) (with The Punch Brothers featuring Del McCoury)(Written by Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Dave Evans, Paul David Hewson)
- Love Grows Wild(Written by Julie Miller, Buddy Miller)
- Bottle to The Bottom (featuring Kris Kristofferson)(Written by Kris Kristofferson)
- Down In The Mine(Written by Jon Randall Stewart, Dierks Bentley, Background vocals by Sonya Isaacs)
Free Music Notes for Up on the Ridge
Free Music Review: Early Favorite for Best Album of 2010
Hit: 5 Stars
I hadn't even planned on buying this album so soon, but when Amazon raised the price on Chely Wright's Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by a couple bucks, I decided to wait on that and instead added this album by Dierks Bentley to my shopping cart. I liked him from the first time I heard "What Was I Thinkin'" back in 2003, but for one reason or another, I haven't kept up with his albums since 2006's Long Trip Alone. Anyway, I'm thrilled to have indulged and bought what may be the strongest album in his discography to date.
What makes Up on the Ridge so appealing is that it's obviously not a commercial record. From start to finish, this is a modern bluegrass album. I'm sure the marketing department would prefer to call it "acoustic," but with Chris Thile, Del McCoury and The Punch Brothers making appearances, it's impossible to deny what this album really is. The guests (who also include Miranda Lambert, Jamey Johnson and Kris Kristofferson) don't feel like they were inserted to bolster sales, either; rather, their appearances are very organic, akin to what Vince Gill did on his These Days (Dig) (Slip) box set project a few years back.
U2 fans will be surprised to hear Bentley's arrangement of their "Pride (In the Name of Love)," as Kristofferson fans will be by "Bottle to the Bottom" (which includes a vocal appearance by the song's originator). Talk about taking a song and making it your own! I was less taken by "Bottle" simply because the up-tempo arrangement runs too counter to the forlorn nature of the lyrics--but that may just be because I'm more familiar with Kristofferson's original version. Otherwise, the traditional/public domain "Rovin' Gambler" stands out as a story song following a gambler from a bad run of luck to prison for murdering a cheater. It's been covered countless times before, and Bentley's run through it with The Punch Brothers calls to mind equal parts Bill Monroe and Marty Robbins.
I used to like to evaluate whether an album could be "background" noise, and Up on the Ridge can be that...but it's a work of art and ought to be listened to and not just heard. You don't even need a friend around; Bentley's provided enough in the creation process that you're really just crashing his jam session by putting on the album.
Up on the Ridge Poster
Conventional wisdom says that in the music business, once you achieve a certain threshold of success, caution should be your guide. You've come this far, you're told by everyone around you. Don't surprise your audience too much. But trepidation will not be part of Dierks Bentley's legacy. At every turn in his career, he's done his own thing, whether that meant touring with jam bands, playing rock venues or recording with bluegrass all-stars on platinum country albums. Now Dierks steps forward with his most artistically daring project yet - the all-acoustic Up On The Ridge - a powerful, beautiful album steeped in the bluegrass and roots music that moved Dierks Bentley to be a country musician in the first place."I fell in love with this kind of music the first time I walked into the Station Inn with a fake I.D. at 19 years old...these guys, who were my age, were playing their instruments so hard it knocked your head back," explains Bentley. "Without the whole bluegrass community taking me in, I would have had no place to start from. It is my foundation."
Dozens of talents have contributed in some way to this project. Besides the five co-written by Dierks himself, the songs come from such varied sources as Bob Dylan, Buddy and Julie Miller, U2 and Kris Kristofferson. Kristofferson participated on the project as a guest vocalist as well, along with a slate of today's best traditional country singers, including: Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Jamey Johnson, Miranda Lambert, Sonya Isaacs and Chris Stapleton of the Steeldrivers. Players on the project include: Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers, the Del McCoury Band, the legendary Sam Bush, dobro player Rob Ickes, guitarist Bryan Sutton, fiddler Stuart Duncan, and mandolinist Ronnie McCoury.
"This record's not a departure for me at all," says Dierks. "It's really just going back and reclaiming something I feel like I do have some ownership of, which is the acoustic music scene in Nashville."
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