This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. UNKNOWN: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.Ĭopyright © 2011 NPR. Names, and they sign their names for something that. I really appreciate it.īENTLEY: (Singing) Brave, got to call it brave to chase that dream across the sea. You know, that's what makes it great.īLOCK: I've been talking with Dierks Bentley about his new song, titled "Home." Dierks, thanks so much.īENTLEY: Thank you, Melissa. And country music has always been about honesty. But I think, in the end, it makes it honest. It feels good, but it's not necessarily truthful or really helpful. I mean, it's easy to sell something to say, were number one. And I think, you know, that's where you find a real relief, real inspiration, real hope, real understanding of what's going on.
'Cause same, no we're not the same, 'cause that's what makes a strong.īLOCK: It's interesting you mention the chest beating in terms of patriotic songs, because if you listen to a bunch of recent country songs about America, patriotic songs that came out, especially after 9/11, there was a lot of chest pounding, Jingoistic tone, us versus them.īLOCK: I wonder if you were sort of deliberately trying to do something in a different way.īENTLEY: Well, I think I was trying to write a song is just honest.
And it all kind of came together in this song.īENTLEY: (Singing) Free, nothing feels like freedom what sometimes means we don't get along. And just that for me of being my home state, just that invokes so many different feelings of anger and questions of why. That had happened about four days earlier. I think the first thing I thought of when we started writing it was the shooting that happened in Tucson, Arizona with Gabby Giffords. Trying to write a song that reaches out to everybody and hopefully, at the end of the day, when we were writing the song, once we started getting into it, it's like you want this to be inspiring and hopeful but also address the realities of what's going on. This is a tough song to finish the right way that isn't polarizing, isn't chest-beating.
These are - they're kind of difficult songs to write, the patriotic songs.īLOCK: Difficult songs to write because you worry about, what, going overboard?īENTLEY: Yes, it's just when we had that line - the place we all call home - it's like, wow, we're definitely going to bite off a big one here. And I wasn't actually trying to write a song like this. You're just kind of mumbling along to the melody and all of a sudden, the place we all call home just kind of spring.īENTLEY: (Singing) It's been a long haul, got a ways to go, but this is still the place that we all call home.īLOCK: Had you been thinking as you were writing this song, you know, I want to write something about America? I want some sort of anthem.īENTLEY: Well, I think it's always on my mind as a traveling musician who, you know, I go to all, you know, continental 48 states throughout the year.
And sometimes you mumble your way into a hook, if that makes any sense. Thank you so much for having me on.īLOCK: Well, tell me where the idea for this came from.īENTLEY: You know, a lot of times when you're writing songs, you have an idea that you've been working on or it hits you somewhere. Dierks, welcome to the program.īENTLEY: Oh thanks, Melissa. 'Cause lose, I don't want to lose the sight of who we are.īLOCK: And Dierks Bentley joins me from Nashville to talk about the song. The land, blessed motherland, the place where I was born. It's the new single from country music star Dierks Bentley, an anthem called "Home."ĭIERKS BENTLEY: (Singing) West, on a plane bound west, I see her stretching out below. Now a conversation about one song that's caught our ear, the song that speaks to where this country is and who we are in troubled times.
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