Halloween Was On Fire For A Young Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley seems to get Halloween and Fourth of July confused. As a kid, Halloween was all about fire. He told us, “Oh, when I was a kid, I was…

Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Updated Oct 31, 2019 7:19 PM EDT

Halloween Was On Fire For A Young Dierks Bentley

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Dierks Bentley seems to get Halloween and Fourth of July confused. As a kid, Halloween was all about fire.

He told us, “Oh, when I was a kid, I was all into fireworks. Growing up in Arizona, we couldn’t get ’em, so we’d have ’em shipped in illegally. I still remember the name of the guy we’d call. His name was Joe, and he’d bring in, ship ’em in a package with no writing on ’em. We were all about M-80s in the mailboxes and bottle rocket wars. To me, as a kid, Halloween was fireworks, was blowing up stuff around home."

No word on what the Bentley family will be dressed as tonight, but Dierks did a little dressing up on his Instagram as he celebrated his alter ego 1990's band Hot Country Knights getting online.

Bentley posted to Instagram, "Can someone please tell me how the @hotcountryknights have their own website now… I put it up at the link in my bio. Can’t believe it."

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.