Dierks BentleyBest Dierks Bentley Albums Ranked

The Mountain

pastemagazine

6.4

“Dierks Bentley’s heavily bluegrass-influenced 2010 album Up On the Ridge was a gamble, and it continues to pay off. The native Arizonan’s fifth studio full-length had more guest appearances by bluegrass big-timers like Vince Gill, Chris Thile, Alison Krauss than it had big hits, but that’s OK. Because Up On the Ridge also established Bentley as a bankable country star willing to push himself artis”

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rollingstone

6.0

“Dierks Bentley is a second-tier Nashville star, and he works awfully hard at it. On his seventh studio album, you can hear him laboring. He strains his thin singing voice on ballads like the title track, a sappy plea for American unity. He staggers through his country-dude paces, sounding unconvincingly good-ol’-boy on hard-partying anthems like […]”

Up On the Ridge

rollingstone

6.0

“Country hunk Dierks Bentley’s sixth album is an excursion into bluegrass, which jettisons his usual power chords and booming choruses in favor of sawing fiddles and coal-miner ballads. His voice is too plain to deliver the pathos in songs like Buddy Miller’s "Love Grows Wild." But the record succeeds on high spirits, sterling guest stars […]”