Friday, May 13, 2005
CD Review: Dierks Bentley, “Modern Day Drifter” (Capitol)
Dierk’s Bentley’s sophomore effort finds him revisiting a lot of the stylistic ground that he covered on his debut, yet he manages to prove that this particular well isn’t dry yet.
Bentley spent much of 2004 on the road with George Strait and Kenney Chesney, and plenty of ”Modern Day Drifter” feels crafted with live performance in front of those same types of audiences in mind. This is warm-weather music written with country music’s two strongest constituencies in mind: the party crowd and the heartstrings crowd.
On the party side, “Cab of My Truck” gallops out of the gate like a sequel to Bentley’s big-splash debut, “What Was I Thinkin’.” “Truck” and “Lot of Leaving” bring a Garth-like kinetic energy to the proceedings.
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