Looking Back: Six Years Ago This Week Dierks Bentley Had The #1 Song On ‘Billboard’

Six years ago this week, Dierks Bentley was #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart with “I Hold On,” a song that he says is very personal to him. Dierks explains: It’s so me. It’s so personal, and yet it’s universal at the same time. You know, these verses are snippets about my life and just things about me, and it’s kind of a song of self-discovery too, you know. Who am I after all these years? What’s important to me? Why do I do certain things that I do? Why do I hold on to certain things that I hold onto? It’s a little bit of me trying to figure out who I am, and then the choruses, it’s who we are as Americans, as a people, as human beings, I guess. There are things that we really value and that we hold on to ‘em really tight – faith, love and freedom. In a way, it’s kind of a love song too, kind of wrapping up at the end.