While the likes of Chase Rice settle for singing about women in a manner that would have been sexist in the 1930's, Dierks Bentley sets his goals higher in terms of musical content. The signer has always been more at home with songs that have some sort of painful emotion laced on them. Now, he's done some fun upbeat tunes (5-1-5-0, Drunk On A Plane), but his more somber work is just masterful. Just one listen of Settle for A Slowdown and you'll know that it is in working with the more melancholy aspects of the human condition that Bentley finds glorious success.
