Jay Leno Gets His Bluegrass On With Dierks Bentley

30 Apr 10

Dierks Bentley was on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on Tuesday night (April 27), and I finally got around to watching it. (I love you, DVR.) But I am always so stunned when there are only three minutes left in the show and the country artist still has not come on yet. Why are they wasting all that time on other guests when they could be letting Bentley steal the show with the title track of his upcoming roots music album, Up on the Ridge? His slot was way too short, but I’m guessing it was enough to get people to stop whatever they were doing and watch as Bentley’s six-man band did their thing and did it so well, especially Bentley himself on vocals and his Martin guitar. And then that insanely good Sam Bush was by Bentley’s side on a resophonic mandolin he was playing with a slide. Frankly, Leno probably should’ve devoted the whole show to this band.

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