Up on the Ridge
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| Studio album by Dierks Bentley | ||||
| Released | June 8, 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2010 | |||
| Genre | Country, bluegrass | |||
| Length | 43:32 | |||
| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
| Producer | Jon Randall Stewart | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
| American Songwriter |  |
| Billboard | (favorable) |
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| Engine 145 | |
Up on the Ridge is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Dierks Bentley. It was released on June 8, 2010 via Capitol Records Nashville. It produced two singles on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2010.
Unlike Bentley's previous work, Up on the Ridge is a bluegrass-influenced album, mixed with country and Americana. It features many collaborations, including The Del McCoury Band, Alison Krauss, Chris Thile, and Miranda Lambert. Via his website, Bentley explained the reason behind Up on the Ridge, saying: “This album won’t come as a surprise to my hard core fans, they've asked me: ‘when are you going to make a bluegrass record?’ And I was just waiting for the right time. I didn’t want this to be ‘Dierks Bentley and friends’ or a ‘Dierks does bluegrass’ kind of album. I wanted each song to have something special about it, and in the end I think each song really does have its own thing going on.”
In an interview with Billboard Magazine, Capitol Records Nashville president and CEO Mike Dungan commented on Up on the Ridge saying that "The album was supposed to be a side project, but it's grown into something much more....He had a real sense of direction and made a vehicle for people to hopefully discover this music".
The title track is the first single from this album and was sent to radio stations on April 12, and debuted at #59 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of May 1, 2010. The song later peaked at #21 in late July 2010, making it the first single of Bentley's career to miss the Top 20 and the second to miss the Top 10, after My Last Name (from his self titled debut album) at No.17 in 2003. The second single from the album, "Draw Me a Map," was released to country radio on August 23, 2010. It was even less successful than the title track, with a peak of #33, becoming his second-lowest charting single to date, after "Bourbon in Kentucky" from his album Riser, which peaked at #40 on Hot Country Songs and #45 on the Country Airplay chart.
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