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.

Listen here.

Dierks Sings Folsom Prison Blues With The Grascals

I hear that train a comin', it's rollin' 'round the bend...

It's typical for Dierks Bentley to sing about trains.  And it's common for him to collaborate with his bluegrass friends, The Grascals (they were featured on Dierks' Long Trip Alone album on the blugrass/gospel cut, Prodigal Son's Prayer).

And it's even more like Dierks to support a project like, "The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin," that contributes to a cause to help children.  Now available exclusively at all Cracker Barrel locations and online, 25 cents per CD sold will be donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is ever denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay.

Dierks sometimes sings Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues live in concert, and it's quite a treat for the crowd, as he sounds a little like the man in black himself.  Track Two of the new Grascals CD features Dierks Bentley's baritone, but his verse doesn't include the "When I hear that whistle whine, I hang my head and cry, cry, cry," part that I love hearing him sing on stage.

The Grascals celebrated the #1 debut of the CD on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums chart (issue date January 29, 2011).  In addition to Dierks, the album features more friends, including Brad Paisley, Charlie Daniels and Dolly Parton. The track, "I Am Strong," was written by Grascals band member Jamie Johnson and his wife Susanne Mumpower-Johnson along with Jenee Fleenor after The Grascals visited the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® and were inspired by the stories and power of the children being treated there.