Cumulus Media’s Westwood One, the largest audio network in the U.S., announces that multi-Platinum singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley will host Westwood One’s annual “Workin’ Hard Country” music special. This four-hour, end-of-summer blowout is available for radio stations nationwide to air over Labor Day weekend.
Bentley will showcase work songs, summertime anthems, and current hits from his own catalog and tunes from Luke Bryan, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Maren Morris, Keith Urban, and many other A-list Country stars. Many of the artists will also share stories about their pre-fame jobs.
Stations can air Westwood One’s “Workin’ Hard Country” with Dierks Bentley any time Saturday, August 31st through Monday, September 2, 2019, between 6:00 am and 12 midnight.
Bentley continues to be a dominant voice for the genre with over 6.4 billion overall digital streams. The “ultra-personal material” (Rolling Stone) behind his current single “Living” follows Bentley’s 18th career No. One and ACM award-winning hit “Burning Man,” as he continues to reveal ambitious, complex sounds with lyrics inspired by his own personal journey through the writing and the recording of “The Mountain”. Reaching a new creative high while “making music designed to challenge” (New York Times), Bentley co-wrote 10 of 13 tracks on “The Mountain”, which earned him the highest debut sales of his career and became his seventh chart-topping album.
Bentley has amassed countless nominations from the ACMs, CMAs, Billboard Music Awards and more while also earning 14 Grammy nominations.
He has created professional endeavors outside of the music with his ‘Flag & Anthem’ partnership creating the exclusive lifestyle collection, ‘Desert Son’, along with his “Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row” franchise hosting four locations. “Fans get an all-night sing-along party” (Fresno Bee) on Bentley’s current 2019 “Burning Man Tour” featuring special guests Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes and the Hot Country Knights.
Additionally, Bentley will team up with Live Nation for his 2nd annual three-day “Seven Peaks Festival” in Buena Vista, CO over Labor Day weekend.
For more information visit www.dierks.com.
