Dierks Bentley thought he had his new album, Riser, all done and in the can last summer. But after his collaboration with Kacey Musgraves, “Bourbon in Kentucky,” didn’t take off, the 38-year-old country star rethought what he’d laid down. “It’s a pretty dark song,” he tells Rolling Stone. “I’m not afraid of trying things. It’s a song I believe in, but it pushed the album release back about four months.”
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