“I think every album has been a snapshot of where I’ve been at that moment in time,” says Dierks Bentley. “This album is a conscious effort to tie in the road and the studio. There’s a vein throughout the whole album of the bigger thoughts and questions that you have when you spend too much time on the road, and you grow up a little bit and start thinking beyond songs about beer and little white tank tops. From the outset, this record was always going to be really different than the previous records.”

The last few years have seen Bentley emerge as the hottest young star in country music. With two Platinum® albums – 2003’s DIERKS BENTLEY (with the #1 debut smash “What Was I Thinkin’) and 2005’s chart-topping MODERN DAY DRIFTER (with the back-to-back multi-week #1 hits “Come A Little Closer” and “Settle for a Slowdown”) – and a long list of honors, he has established himself as one of the most acclaimed artists in music today. In just one year, he jumped from winning the 2005 CMA Horizon Award to a 2006 CMA Male Vocalist of the Year nomination. He also won the ACM Top New Artist Award in 2004 and went on to receive a nomination for the 2005 ACM Top Male Vocalist Award. After two tours of duty on the George Strait tour and three for Kenny Chesney – he makes the leap to the next level as a touring artist when he launches his first major headlining tour sponsored by Bud Light (who have only sponsored tours for two other artists – George Strait and Tim McGraw).