Dierks Bentley Reveals Daughters Got Him Into SZA

In the hunt for success, Dierks Bentley knows helium struck gold.

More than 20 years aft releasing his debut workplace album, the state singer is inactive surviving retired his dreams by making caller euphony and performing astatine sold-out venues crossed the country.

Now, arsenic helium releases his 10th workplace medium Gravel & Gold connected Feb. 25, the 47-year-old is acknowledging each the treasures he's recovered on the way.

"If I had to manus idiosyncratic an medium and say, ‘This is who I am,'" Dierks told E! News successful an exclusive interview, "this would beryllium the one."

In respective tracks, the "I Hold On" singer—who shares kids Evie, 14, Jordan, 12, and Knox, 9, with woman Cassidy Black—writes astir his engaged household beingness successful Nashville.

"The opus ‘Something Real' is successful a batch of ways wherever I americium successful my beingness close present wherever we got 3 kids," helium explained. "I question a batch with my lad for question hockey, arsenic does my wife. My different girls are doing a batch of theatre and musicals and conscionable increasing up and becoming much independent. You're benignant of conscionable hanging connected for existent life."

"I deliberation we some admit wherever we are successful this portion of our beingness and it's precise real, but we admit that," helium continued. "It's a batch of work. It's a batch of laundry, a batch of dishes, a batch of picking up canine poop, but it's existent beingness and I thrive connected that a lot."

However, during the highest of COVID-19 successful 2020, the Bentley crew ventured westbound to Colorado to unplug. The household escapade included riding bikes, going connected hikes and skipping rocks successful the river. The acquisition proved to beryllium a root of inspiration arsenic Dierks wrote the way "Sunsets successful Colorado" to observe the quality of the large outdoors.

"As a parent, getting a accidental to rise those kids truthful they tin spot that they tin acquisition that and consciousness that is special," helium noted. "That twelvemonth disconnected was truly peculiar successful that way. And it's a feeling I effort to transportation with maine and thing I effort to bring successful my beingness present successful Tennessee arsenic overmuch arsenic possible."

"This medium would not beryllium if I hadn't travel backmost and I fell backmost successful emotion with Nashville," helium continued. "My mindset arsenic I was making the medium was, 'It mightiness beryllium gravel, but it feels similar gold.' Changing your position connected worldly tin truly alteration your life."

Now, arsenic Dierks prepares for a summertime circuit helium hopes to denote successful the coming weeks, the Flag and Anthem decorator besides continues to treasure prime clip with his kids.

At home, Dierks' daughters proceed to present him to new tunes from artists like SZA. As for his son, helium helps Dierks retrieve euphony is conscionable portion of his story.