| Up on the Ridge |  | Artist: Dierks Bentley
Label: Capitol Nashville
Category: Music
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 211
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
EAN: 5099968541026
ASIN: B003DU50RW
Release Date: June 8, 2010
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| Tracks:
| • | 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) |
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Product Description
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."
Album Description
2010 release from the Country superstar. The all-acoustic Up On The Ridge is a powerful, beautiful album steeped in the Bluegrass and Roots music that moved Dierks Bentley to be a Country musician in the first place. 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.
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 This is as good as it gets June 8, 2010
Terry Mathews (a small town in east Texas)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Got my hands on a copy of the CD this morning.
My goodness ... this is good.
Takes a lot of courage to step away from "them that brung ya" to the dance, but by taking a break from his pop-infused country and making friends with some blazing bluegrass, Bentley proves he's more than just a pretty face. He co-wrote 5 of the tunes, including the title cut and my favorite, "Draw Me A Map." He also covers Dyan and Kristofferson, with a little Verlon Thompson thrown in for good measure.
Alison Krauss, Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson and Miranda Lambert also make guest appearances.
This one will be in rotation on my CD and iPod for a long time to come. Look for "Up on the Ridge" to clean up at awards time.
Enjoy!
A Fresh new / old Country Bluegrass blend July 2, 2010
Pirate Fan (Santa Clarita, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great album and the most listen-able work the Punch Brothers have done so far.
Why mention the Punch Brothers?
Well, Dierks Bently is a smart, smooth, singer songwriter who has brains, humor and a balanced taste that shows he appreciates good song writing and fine musicians. He gathered together some great music here.
But in my mind, the most amazing feat he accomplished was to show that the Punch Brothers are at their best when they are eased back in musical music. Too bad they don't find this kind of musical ease on their own. They make one top-notch backup band -- like hiring the Eagles in 1973. How do you pull off that kind of a coup? I guess brilliance recognizes brilliance.
As with the work of those greats, this album is far greater than the sum of its parts.
You will buy no better set of songs for many years.
Paddling away from the old mainstream June 8, 2010
John Terry (Kansas City, Mo)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Dierks Bentley is a man with a dilemna. He got where he is today by more or less fitting comfortably on your country music radio dial. He was never a pretty boy in tailored "cowboy" clothes but he was undeniably sing along catchy. Well, it seems he's been harboring a desire to stretch out a bit and make an old timey, honest to goodness, country bluegrass album. What's a habitual top forty resident to do? You want a comparison to this album? Steve Earle's album "The Mountain" with the Del McCoury Band springs to mind. Maybe Ricky Skaggs back in the days when he was getting radio airplay and maintaining his country integrity. Well, Del never really got along with Steve because of his prickly attitude and salty language but he and Ronnie show "Up On The Ridge" to lend Dierks a hand and it's a match made in heaven. Del even contributes a killer vocal on "Pride In The Name Of Love". Yes, that "Pride In The Name Of Love". Trust me, it makes a great bluegrass tune. Whenever the McCourys aren't burning up the strings, there are stellar turns by Nickel Creek alumnus Chris Thile and The Punch Brothers, Tim O'Brien, Bryan Sutton, Allison Krauss, Sam Bush and Vince Gill. Oh wait, there's more. The reigning king and queen of outlaw country, Jamey Johnson and Miranda Lambert, accompany Dierks on "Bad Angel". Heck, Dierks may have used them as examples when he convinced Capitol Nashville that a real country album might actually get played on the radio. I'm not done yet. The greatest living songwriter of our time, Kris Kristofferson joins Dierks for a rendition of his very own "Bottle To The Bottom". The impressive things about this album is that Dierks is not overshadowed by his all star lineup. He co-wrote five of the songs and all the stellar hired help only serve to accentuate a whole bunch of positives that make up Dierks Bentley. This is guaranteed to be one of my top country albums of the year. Dierks, this is killer, dude!
Early Favorite for Best Album of 2010 July 3, 2010
Travis S. Mcclain (KY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Love This CD! July 7, 2010
T. Watson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I may not be a musical "expert" to the point where I'm going to pick apart and analyze every note, every nuance to the songs on Up On The Ridge and compare them to bluegrass artists old and new. But, as someone who is definitely an expert at appreciating GOOD music, I can tell you right now that Dierks Bentley's new CD is one I play almost every day, all the way through EVERY time (can't say that about a lot of CDs these days) and when it's done, I'm humming the tunes to myself for the rest of the day and night. There isn't ONE false note on this CD as far as I'm concerned and it leaves you feeling uplifted, which is what music is supposed to be about in the first place. Love Dierks, love bluegrass (in ALL its various incarnations) and this is certainly an effort he can be proud of. I highly recommend it!
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