Bentley drops first new music since 2019
Dierks Bentley has released his first new single since 2019’s “Living,” a platinum smash that topped the Billboard country airplay chart.
“Gone,” a rhythmic breakup song that finds him wondering what went wrong while feeling “sadder than a country song,” hit country radio and streaming services Thursday.
The Phoenix native will perform the
single for the first time during the 2020 iHeartCountry Festival, which air at 5 p.m. on LiveXLive.
In a press release, the singer said, “Country music is the best genre for storytelling, and I feel like we are realizing it probably now more than ever since we can’t congregate together at concerts, high five each other, sing and shout at the top of our lungs.”
A good country show, he continued, “is just about the greatest communion there is out there. We are all relying on lyrics and melodies at home and trying however we can to find different ways to connect with our fans, so that they know how important they still are to us. I hope this song resonates with mine, and I’m counting the days until we can all be back together again, beers in the air.”
The single was written by Nicolle Galyon, Ben Johnson and Niko Moon and produced by David Garcia.
Bentley continues to be a major force in country music with over 6.4 billion streams.
His latest album, “The Mountain,” earned the country superstar the highest debut sales of his career while becoming his seventh chart-topping release.