DB Congress To Meet During Dierks' Miles & Music For Kids Weekend

"Living life like a Sunday stroll...free and easy down the road I go!"  Dierks Bentley's 7th annual Nashville Miles and Music For Kids celebrity motorcycle ride and concert follows that mantra, and they are gearing up for a great event on Sunday, October 14, 2012.

Two weeks from today, Dierks and about 1,500 friends will ride from Ricky Kelley's (@TheHarleyGuy) Harley Davidson of Columbia to the Riverfront Park stage downtown Nashville, Tennessee, where Kix Brooks, Sheryl Crow, Chris Young, Brantley Gilbert, The Cadillac Black, Craig Campbell and, according to their website, Southern Drawl Band, will perform.  

It's all to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr.'s Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.

DB Congress has an annual tradition of meeting with fellow fan clubbers and Dierks fans the night before to sign get well cards for the kids.  This year we will meet at Joe's Crab Shack on Saturday, October 13 at 7 p.m.  Get all the details and RSVP to join the fun HERE!

We'll need close to 300 cards, so while you're out and about this weekend, stop by the dollar store and pick up a couple packs of children's get well cards!  If you cannot be there in person, and you want to donate cards, please email me at Ronna@dbcongress.com to arrange to mail them to me.

Here are a few photos from the 2010 MM4K Nashville event.

We look forward to a special 2012 MM4K weekend!

Check out our stories from previous MM4K events HERE.  For tickets, click HERE.

DIERKS TELLS ALL TO KIX

Straight from the February 27, 2009 issue of the American Country Countdown Newsletter, with Kix Brooks! Feel That Fire is #1 on the ACC chart for week ending Feb. 22, and Dierks Bentley is the artist/CD of the month!

KIX: I'm coming to you from the Great Scott Productions studio in Phoenix Arizona this week. I’m doing a little touring right now and stopped in to catch up on the hottest forty songs in country music. Dierks Bentley is a special guest this week… He’s a Phoenix guy you know!

Dierks tells Kix why he put bluegrass on his new CD, why failure can be a good thing and about starting out on Lower Broadway in Nashville.

Listen here.

BROOKS AND DIERKS

Enter to win Dierks Bentley's new CD at the ACC Top 40 website.

Feel That Fire is the album of the week! Text key word ACCDIERKS to 62582 and hear audio excerpts of Kix Brooks interviewing Dierks every weekend in February.

Hear how Dierks' life has changed with a baby girl, Evie. Kix Brooks interviews Dierks.

Also on American Country Countdown, Dierks Bentley Keeps It Breezy:
Dierks Bentley has just released the second single from his album, 'Feel That Fire'. "Sideways" is a good indication of what Bentley went through to release the album, as it almost didn't make it onto the record in the first place.
(Dierks performs Sideways in Daytona after the Bud Shoot Out 2/7/09)

The president of Capitol Records, to which Bentley is signed, told the country singer prior to its release that the album was a little on the heavy side. As a result, Bentley returned to the studio, and "Sideways" became one of a pair of new tracks added to the effort.

"It definitely tilted the record on the side of having a little more energy and fun than my past records, but it felt right," Dierks told the Associated Press. "My goal is that on the first listen you come away thinking it's fun and rowdy, but when you go back for subsequent listens you find [more depth]."

Bentley's last album, 'Long Trip Alone', was a darker album than those that came before it. And while it did garner four Grammy nominations last year, it didn't sell as many copies as some of his earlier records.

Thus, Bentley (along with the president of Capitol) decided that 'Feel That Fire' should be more upbeat and fun.

"I respect him for saying something because that's hard to do," Dierks said. "I know I can get stuck and not see the forest for the trees."

Justin Starling for Citadel Interactive © 2009