Dierks Bentley Has One Simple Approach To Picking Openers

Dierks Bentley on His Summer Tour, and Picking Acts Like Hero Ricky Skaggs and Kaitlin Butts as Support: ‘Selfishly, These Are People That I Wanna Go Watch Their Show’

Dierks Bentley talks about his summer Off the Map Tour, which has Ricky Skaggs and Kaitlin Butts as support acts, and his favorite parts of touring.

Dierks Bentley Has One Simple Approach To Picking Openers

Dierks Bentley is playing chess while the rest of us are playing checkers. Soon, the “Drunk On A Plane” singer will hit the road once again for his bluegrass-heavy Off The Map Tour. It’s basically a continuation of his Broken Branches Tour from last year, which shared and celebrated the artist’s 2025 album release of the same name. In fact, the Off The Map Tour gets inspiration from a song that was included on Broken Branches. I actually wrote l…