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DIERKS BENTLEY - Long Trip Alone
| ShakingThrough |
| Bentley cemented his status as a talented mainstream country songwriter and performer with his successful sophomore effort, 2005's engaging Modern Day Drifter, and especially its affecting ballads "Settle for a Slowdown" and "Come A Little Closer." Long Trip Alone starts off with a foolproof country-rockin' anthem, "Every Mile A Memory," but before long settles into the more refined groove of those earlier songs, most notably on the title track, "Soon As You Can," "Trying to Stop Your Leaving" and "The Heaven I'm Headed To" (a surprising broadside aimed at dogma, imagining an afterworld where "priests and prostitutes" co-exist in harmony.)...full text |
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| Slant Magazine |
| With three #1 singles and a handful of industry awards to his credit, Dierks Bentley is an ascendant country star, and his third album, Long Trip Alone, is poised to vault the Arizona native to the genre's A-list. By polishing away most of the roughest edges of its predecessor, 2005's platinum-selling Modern Day Drifter, the album should succeed in that regard. It's a pleasant surprise that Long Trip Alone, if not quite up to the level of the best recordings in mainstream country's recent artistic resurgence, succeeds in establishing Bentley as an artist worthy of more than just passing attention...full text |
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| RollingStone |
| A thirty-year-old Phoenix native with a posh suburban tenor, Bentley can liken himself, as he does here on the rolling "Hope for Me Yet," to "a worn-out pair of boots." Why? Because his music sustains one rugged country sound, a real down-home mix of honky-tonk directness and fluid Nashville virtuosity. Aside from the gorgeous gospel of "The Heaven I'm Headed To," these road songs lack the rascally attitude of Bentley's knockout 2005 singles. But that hot sound, a Bud Lite or two fancier here, remains....full text |
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