Happy 3rd Birthday To DB Congress!

We, the members, of the Dierks Bentley Congress, in order to form a more perfect fan club, established this band of brothers and sisters on April 21, 2007 in the now defunct "Dierksville" on dierks.com.  


But today, we celebrate our third anniversary of our own site -- dbcongress.com!


Dierks mentioned in a November 2006 interview in DeKalb, IL that his fan club was like his "congress." Here is an excerpt:

"I try to keep that connection with the fan club as close as it can be. To me they're like the congress of the fans. They're the elected officials that actually pay money to be in your fan club and I really listen to them and I want them to feel like they're really part of this growth and all this stuff that's happening..." 

We have grown from 9 to 708 reps strong representing all 50 U.S. states, Mexico, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia. With DB as our President, it is an honor to serve as a member of the DB Congress and to be a Dierks supporter for life -- with no term limits!


"...been a long hard ride, got a ways to go, but this is still the place that we all call home..." 


Happy birthday to us!


Are you in the DB fan club? If the answer is yes and you want to help promote Dierks is some small way every day, email ronna@dbcongress.com to be added to the rep page!


~Ronna
DB Congress Chair
Florida

MEXICO REP CELEBRATES FIRST USA 4th OF JULY - DIERKS-STYLE

Fatima is our one and only DB Congress representative in Mexico and she does a great job of promoting Dierks Bentley on a daily basis! She finally got to live out her dream of meeting our DBC president on, of all days, the Fourth of July! And of all places, in the US--Kileen, Texas to be exact! Read on for her exciting story!

"It was my first M&G with Dierks so I was very excited! I really don't remember the exact conversation since I was so nervous and I totally blanked! I had like a speech ready and couldn't remember anything the moment I saw him coming out of the door!



But as far as I can remember I told him I was very excited and happy to meet him for the first time, also that I was from Monterrey, Mexico, and he asked me where Monterrey was, so I said it is about 9 hours away from Kileen. He said that Mexico was special for him. I hugged him and on the picture he signed to me he wrote "Muchas Gracias" (that is Thank You in Spanish). So I said, 'oh so you do speak Spanish?' He said, 'hmm un poquito (little bit) hahaha.'

It was amazing. Even though the M&G lasted like 10 minutes it was totally worth it. I also gave him a gift with a letter telling him I was so proud to be part of the DB Congress and representing Mexico. Also in the bag I put tons of fun stuff from Mexico but he didn't open it because it was really packed. I just hope the Tequila chocolates didn't melt because the sun was burning!

I've never celebrated 4th of July in the US before, but it was Amazing to see fireworks and all the people getting together with their families dressed in blue, white and red colors to celebrate their independence. It's different from Mexico's independence day.

It was my dream to get to live this day and Dierks' show was amazing too. He sang for about an hour and a half and got a beautiful award from the US Military."

Thanks for sharing your special experience with us, Fatima!

SIDEWAYS - SINGLE, VIDEO UPDATE-JUNE 12

Whatever It Is by the Zach Brown Band edged over Sideways to claim the #4 spot, pushing Dierks down to #5 this week. It's gonna take an act of congress--the DB Congress that is--to get this sure-to-be-seventh number one single moving in the upward direction. Call your DJs now!

Video Update:
#8 Australia's Country Music Channel - CMC Top 30 (LW #14)
#10 GACTV Top 20 (LW #12)
#8 CMT Top 20 - (LW #10)


Go to the DB Congress Current Campaigns page to vote for Sideways on all the video countdown links every day!

"FIRE" FIZZLES, SIDEWAYS UP NEXT

According to the February 20th issue date of Radio and Records, Feel That Fire lost it's top spot sizzle, sliding to the #4 slot this week. Time to start focusing on the new single - Sideways - due to be added to country radio March 2.

So get your dialing and posting fingers ready, DB Congress reps! Now with 400 of us, we need to hit the campaign trail hard and move Sideways up the charts! It's not too early to start calling, and emailing your local radio DJs! Let's show our president--Dierks Bentley--just what we're made of--and give him gold and platinum on his walls!

The higher the singles go on the charts, the better the new album will sell!

Gotta make 'em wanna come back for more!