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Dierks Bentley
Feel That Fire

Campus Correspondent CD review by Marion Olea,
North Central College

Country star Dierks Bentley is known for chronicling his life as a drifter through his music. Throughout his latest album, Feel That Fire (Capitol), he blends classic country with rock and pop for songs that stray away from his usual drifter theme and begin to focus on love and loss – topics sure to appeal to women and make him a bona fide heartthrob.

Opening Feel That Fire with “Life on the Run” sets the tone for the entire album by cleverly mixing his trademark on-the-go theme with his new one of love. The song details the difficulties of finding love when constantly moving around from city to city– an all too familiar theme many musicians or people in the business of travel can relate to. “Feel that Fire” and “You Hold Me Together” are sweet and tender ballads sure to make women swoon. “I Can’t Forget Her” is a tragically beautiful song about love lost and one of the strongest songs on the album. In “Beautiful World” he duets with Patty Griffin and the song serves as a humble reminded of the simple things in life people fail to focus on when things go astray.

Even though Feel That Fire has some standout hits, “Little Heartwrecker” comes off as terribly cheesy and “Last Call” comically absurd. While for the most part, many of Bentley’s songs are cliché ridden and not very thought provoking, he manages to produce an album worth recognizing.