Dierks Bentley

Frederick Dierks Bentley , known professionally as Dierks Bentley, is an American country music singer and songwriter who has been signed to Capitol Nashville since 2003. That year, he released his selftitled debut album. Both it and its followup, 2005s Modern Day Drifter, are certified platinum in the United States. A third album, 2006s Long Trip Alone, is certified gold. It was followed in mid2008 by a greatest hits package. His fourth album, Feel That Fire was released in February 2009. A bluegrass studio album, Up on the Ridge, was released on June 8, 2010, and then a sixth album, Home, followed in February 2012, as did a seventh one, Riser, in 2014.

Bentley was born on November 20, 1975 in Phoenix as the son of Leon Fife Bentley a bank vicepresident, and Catherine Childs. His father was born in Glasgow, Missouri, to Richard Thomas and Mary Cecile Fife Bentley, and was a First Lieutenant in World War II. His middle name, Dierks , is also his maternal greatgrandmothers surname. He attended Culver Academies and graduated from The Lawrenceville School in 1993. Afterward, he spent a year at the University of Vermont before transferring to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he graduated in 1997. He was initiated into the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity while he was at Vermont.

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