Drunk On A Plane

Bentley penned this song with Chris Tompkins and Josh Kear. It tells the story of a guy who is left standing alone at the alter but finds the strength to forge ahead on a solo trip to Cancun. Bentley recalled: "(I)went in to write with those guys, and had an idea. Josh threw that idea out, and he said, 'I always wanted to write a song called 'Drunk on a Plane.' Of course, I'm obsessed with planes, so I'm like, 'I love that! I've got to have a song called 'Drunk on a Plane.' Just thinking about the idea of being drunk on a plane and all the crazy things that could happen or do happen." "It was really fun writing with those guys, just kind of creating this idea of this story of this guy who had been left at the altar, and just the ups and downs and the highs and lows of being on a plane and being drunk," Bentley continued. "I knew when I wrote it, it would go over great live. Like I could just take my guitar and go and play it in front of an audience that had never heard it before and get a laugh and entertain with that song, but I didn't know if it'd make the record or not."

Bentley is a licensed pilot, and when he sang the song at the 2013 Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, the host asked him if he was advocating flying an aircraft while intoxicated. "No, it's more of a Southwest situation," he assured the audience.

The Riser album was written and recorded in the year following the death of Bentley's father. The songs chosen for the record tell the of the ups and downs the singer went through, ranging from the loss of his dad to the birth of his third child, Knox. Bentley said at a private listening party on Nashville's Music Row that some of the tracks "don't really fit in the Riser theme, but there's a similar sound that makes it work together." He added: "A song like 'Pretty Girls' or 'Drunk On A Plane' can fit as a pressure relief valve to get away from it, then bring it back. I wanted the album to be heavier and a little darker. I think a good country album should have a little bit of it all."