Dierks' writing advice

 

Dierks Bentley is featured for the second year in a row in Esquire’s annual “Music Issue,” available on newsstands next Tues., April 26. Bentley was asked to write a guest column for the issue. In his piece “How to Write a Song (for a Woman),” Bentley encourages songwriters to begin the writing process with an acoustic guitar and learn a couple chords before focusing on what he calls the foundation – lyrics. He goes on to add about the song’s delivery, “And if you screw up, it’s no big deal. When I forget the words during a show, I rewrite them on the spot. No one ever seems to mind. She won’t either. (Some emergency rhymes: Crazy/baby, girl/world, apart/heart, desire/fire.)”