Dierks Bentley Is Sure to Treat His Opening Acts Right on Tour

The chance to tour with any big-name country artist is a big deal, but Dierks Bentley may be one of the best because he sets the bar high with the way he treats his opening acts.

Bentley is bringing Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith along on his 2015 Sounds of Summer Tour, and while the music is the obvious focal point, it's also incredibly important to the "Riser" singer to show the newer country singers a good time.

"It’s gonna be good; it’s gonna be really good," Bentley told The Boot and other media outlets at a recent event.

Bentley played a pre-tour show with Maddie & Tae, and he raves that "they're just great. They're really exciting!"

And if he's excited, imagine how pumped the younger artists are.

"They text me all the time about how excited they are for the tour," Bentley reveals.

The main reason Bentley loves showing new artists the ways of the road is because he believes that they should be treated like gold. He loves "[to] get a chance to get [artists onto] their first tour and kind of set the bar where I think it should be set as far as how you treat opening acts and giving them time during our show.

"... I want to make it really hard for whoever takes them out next to top how they were treated on this tour," Bentley adds.

Not only will the artists share the same stage, they'll also share the same backstage, and Bentley says that's where the fun really happens.

"I want to hang out with people who are fun to hang out with off stage," he explains, "but also obviously who can bring it on stage."

The 2015 Sounds of Summer Tour is going to be one big party, celebrating country music, featuring fun "toys" like pyro and fireworks and literally embracing the sounds of summer. Bentley and gang kicked off the tour on June 5 in Raleigh, N.C., and they'll hit 40 cities throughout the U.S. before wrapping things up.

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