Dierks Bentley has recently paid tribute to late country figures, including a Grand Ole Opry performance honoring Dolly Parton and an ACM Honors set for a late Nashville friend he wrote a song with. He has also teamed up with a Pearl Jam guitarist for a first-ever Nashville concert benefiting the wrongfully convicted, and he is aging bourbon inside the Grand Ole Opry walls, a venue he was once kicked out of.