Dierks Bentley photo by Jim Wright, courtesy of Capitol Nashville.
May 4, 2009 — Dierks Bentley is currently on his first Australian tour, opening for Brooks & Dunn, but he recently took part in Nashville in another event that connected him to a different continent: Africa.
Dierks joined such acts as Keith Urban, Faith Hill and the SteelDrivers to perform in Big Kenny's Nashville4Africa benefit concert to raise money for the Sudan. The evening also included an appearance by the African Children's Choir, which has been touring the U.S. to raise awareness of their homeland, and Dierks took them into the studio for a recording session.
"A lot of these kids have lost their parents and grown up in war-torn regions, and so they really are kind of a beacon of hope that's goin' across the whole country," he told Suzanne Alexander on the national radio show GAC Nights: Live From Nashville. "They're singin' in churches and different theaters across the country, and just to hang out with them is so much fun. In the studio, we're already thinking about some future records, and since they were in town, we thought we'd get 'em in the studio and get 'em on record, so they recorded some stuff with us."
It wasn't simply a charity case, though. Dierks has high hopes for the song they worked on and thinks it may see the light of day on his next release.
"I had a song I been hangin' onto for a couple years now," he said. "I really want it to be a single. It just never has fit right the last two records, but it just might be the right song for the next record."
In the meantime, Dierks' Australian tour continues through Saturday with shows in Melbourne and Sydney and two in Brisbane.
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