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Dierks Bentley: ‘Looking Forward To Getting Back Out With The Band’

Dierks Bentley has spent all of quarantine in Colorado with his family just living life and taking a break. He tells Taste Of Country, “We’re kinda just here indefinitely, I…

Is Dieks Bentley Retiring?
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Dierks Bentley has spent all of quarantine in Colorado with his family just living life and taking a break.

He tells Taste Of Country, "We're kinda just here indefinitely, I guess ... happy to be out here right now. Ah, I'm kind of just living right now ... the world is taking a little bit of a break, and I think we are, too."

Bentley has been pretty quiet on social media with just a few posts like this one from last week where he reminisced about his Seven Peaks Festival saying, "Looking back at old pictures from #sevenpeaksfest... missing when I got to play music with these guys..."

When asked about retiring early, Dierks laughed and said that is not in the plan and that he was "looking forward to getting back out with the band and crew when I can."

He added, "I'm just concentrating on the things I can concentrate on right now, which is my family. I'm writing a lot of songs ... just concentrating on my family and my kids and my music."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.