Dierks and The Grascals: Life Finds A Way, in at #8 For 2012

You may recall we told you about Dierks and The Grascals partnering on the song,  Life Finds A Way.  It was the number one song on the Bluegrass Today chart in April 2012.

Bluegrass Today has published their annual Top 30 report for 2012. This list shows which individual tracks received the most airplay, as reported by their participating programmers.  Check out who came in at #8!

Congrats to The Grascals and Dierks!

Photo credit: Dierks Bentley with Grascals on The Red Carpet at the 46th Annual ASCAP Country Music Awards at the Ryman Auditorium on October 13, 2008 in Nashville, Tennessee.

( October 13, 2008 - Source: Rick Diamond/Getty Images North America)

Life Finds A Way For The Grascals & Dierks Bentley

Bluegrass greats, The Grascals, posted on their facebook wall on Wednesday that they were, "tickled to learn that the song "Life Finds A Way" (the title cut from our new CD on Mountain Home) is the #1 song on the Bluegrass Today chart. Thanks to everyone that is playing it!"

Dierks Bentley fans will find the song especially sweet since he helped write it.  Country Standard Time confirms, "the album still finds the band is digging its collective teeth into composing as they co-wrote 5 of the 13 songs including the title cut with help from Dierks Bentley."

Long time friends, Dierks and The Grascals have been featured on each others albums over the last several years, such as Prodigal Son's Prayer on DB's Long Trip Alone Album, and Folsom Prison Blues on The Grascals Cracker Barrell project--The Grascals & Friends – Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin.

Don't miss the CD release party for "Life Finds A Way," airing on GACTV Saturday, 4/21 at 9:30 am central.

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THE GRASCALS TALK DIERKS

You may remember Dierks Bentley's 2006 album, Long Trip Alone, featured The Grascals on the last cut called, Prodigal Son's Prayer. That collaboration still resonates with the Bluegrass band as they speak often of Dierks in a conversation/interview with Jessica Cornett.

Jessica: I know how important that is [relationship with fans] in the industry today, no matter what genre you're playing.

Jamie: Earlier today, Jeremy Abshire and I played cornhole with some folks. There was a stall in the day so we went out and play cornhole with them. They were out there screaming and brings the fans to you. Dierks (Bentley) is good about that; he'll go out to his people. You'll watch and learn.

Terry: Dierks does a lot of that computer stuff like every day.

Jamie: Yep sure does.

Terry: Jamie's the one that does that for us. I'm stupid about that. Computer illiterate.

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Jessica: How does it feel when others, like Dierks Bentley, say that they have been influenced by your music?

Terry: Other than, you know, it's great. I mean it's wonderful to know that you've touched somebody's life through music, what you enjoy doing. Music is emotion. That's what it is and to touch them through an emotion like that it's one of the greatest things in the world you know. That's how I think about it.

Jamie: It's an honor really. I mean honestly, I've sat there and with Dierks and watched him sing. We sat there at the same table drinking a pitcher of beer and watching him sing thinking dang I like him. To watch somebody like George Jones, or Haggard, people don't sometimes write the song but can still sing it as if they did. That's not something you can learn, I don't care who you are. I do okay at some of them. The majority of my songs, I sing to the best of my ability. To really learn that, that's just a God given talent. We appreciate the people that respect that. I salute Dierks for pointing that out. Shoot, I wrote the title cut of this album, but I want him (Terry) to sing it. It's an honor to learn from people like I do really.

Thank you Grascals for honoring our DB Congress president with your kind words!

~Ronna
DB Congress Chair