Dierks Bentley limits most of his singing to the studio and the stage – but he admitted this week he’s not opposed to a bit of karaoke.
“I usually don’t do karaoke that much anymore because my voice is gone the next day,” he told People at his iHeartRadio album release party. “But ‘Rebel Yell’ by Billy Idol would be my go-to.”
Bentley said doing karaoke and performing in small clubs in his early days gave him valuable skills.
“You learn to play with people right in your face. You can’t avoid them. You can’t hide from them,” he explained. “They’re usually drunk and they’re yelling out song requests and you have to learn to deal with that.
“When you get into big arenas, you have to try to take that same energy you had playing in the honky-tonks and the rock bars, and transfer it.”
Bentley is on the road to support his new album The Mountain.