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Pop country singer and songwriter, Dierks Bently moves into the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion this weekend with Brothers Osborne and Lanco as his opening concert performers.

Bently's ninth studio album has been out since June with the country performer promoting it with his festival an concert appearances.

Bently's Labor Day weekend was at the Seven Peaks festival in Buena Vista,CO. an event he helped bring to life. Bently recently told Forbes.com contributor, Jim Ryan,“I don’t know of another festival that has seven 14,000-foot mountains that surround the area,” said O’Connell of the festival’s Colorado home within the Rockies.

This (country) music festival's uniqueness is that fans could camp out for the three day weekend event and take advantage of activities like zip lines, kayaking, rafting, paddle boarding and more.

“I think you have to treat it like you would an album: by making it your own and paying crazy attention to the details. Country music is the core of this festival, but I’ve invited friends of mine whose music and vibe really fits this Colorado, mountain-high experience,” Bentley said. “My hope is that the same approach I take when making an album – making something very personal and very specific – will also work in a festival setting.”

On his latest released album, The Mountain, National Public Radio's Jewly Hight says, "The artist pursues themes of questing and self-actualization across a wide-open terrain of arid deserts and rugged ridgelines, cactus flowers and tumbleweeds. While the tracks possess the propulsive power, programmed loops and digital snap of current country production, the bluegrass textures of mandolin, banjo, fiddle and flatpicked guitar and the shimmery, resonant twang of West Coast country-rock sit right out front."

Hight goes on to say, "For Bentley, balancing broad appeal with his own musical interests is hardly a new goal. Those who haven't followed his career closely may be surprised to learn that he and Miranda Lambert were among the only contemporary country acts to be profiled within the pages of the original incarnation of the alt-country magazine No Depression in the mid-'aughts. The feature on Bentley made much of the fact that he was a rising country contender who also sought the contributions of Americana songwriters and bluegrass pickers."

"Every record needs to be different. It needs to stand up on its own. I'm not from the south. I can't make records that draw upon certain southern ideas and lifestyles and nostalgic things. I don't have that crutch, which can be fortunate in some ways. It forces me to work a little harder, I think. If it's a sound or an idea or a song, I need to find something that's gonna give me the inspiration to jump off of. With this album, a lot of it [started] at Telluride, the bluegrass festival. I played a show there. Sam [Bush] and Tim [O'Brien] and Jerry [Douglas] and the [Travelin'] McCourys all got up with me. Chris Thile got up with me. It was an awesome set."