Dierks Bentley has shared a new single, “Standing in the Sun,” the latest taste from his forthcoming album, Broken Branches. The new collection will arrive on June 13 via Capitol Records Nashville.
Written by Kyle Sturrock, the track opens with a sparse guitar while Bentley’s signature gravel grounds the lyrics building into a full blown effort laced with emotion and gratitude. Bentley recently captured a single video take of the track just as the sun rose over his farm just outside of Nashville.
“This is one of those songs that I never in a million years could have written on my own, but I’m so glad someone in this town did and gave me temporary custody of it for awhile,” said Bentley. “Love is such a classic theme in country music, but Kyle was able to write it in a way that is so personal to me…it’s the way I feel it. And, I love how sonically it builds to feel like a sunrise, tying back to the lyric of the song.” Dierks croons during the chorus: “Yeah, loving you is standing in the sun/ Holding you is a heatwave/ Burnin’ me up/ Ain’t no way I’ll ever get enough.”
Broken Branches marks Bentley’s 11th studio album and includes 11 new tracks, highlighted by another pre-release single “She Hates Me,” which has already made its mark on the country charts.
For this new album, Bentley stripped back his sound to its most essential elements. It includes collaborations with Miranda Lambert, John Anderson, Riley Green and Stephen Wilson Jr. Other pre-release singles have included “Cold Beer Can” and “Well Well Whiskey.”
To celebrate the new album, Bentley is bringing new and old fan favorites to the road this summer on the Broken Branches Tour. Kicking off May 29 in Austin, Texas, he will be joined by rising country star Zach Top and The Band Loula. You can find out more information about the tour via Dierks Bentley’s website.
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