Woman, Amen

Dierks Bentley penned this deeply sincere and personal message of love and gratitude for his wife Cass with songwriters Josh Kear (Luke Bryan's "Drunk On You," Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away") and Ross Copperman (Keith Urban's "Break On Me," Luke Bryan's "Strip It Down.") It was penned by the trio during a Fall 2017 writer's retreat in Telluride, Colorado where Bentley wrote and recorded much of his The Mountain album.

The song was released as the lead track from The Mountain on January 17, 2017. "The song's about gratitude, and the song is just the cracks in your heart and love and how you really need to have those failures and those cracks to really let love get in, so it's an inspiring song," said Bentley. "I think it's an album that has a lot of gratitude in the album throughout every song. So, it's a good song to really just get that message out there, and all that gratitude for me starts at home. "There'd be nothing without Cass and the way she's not only made my life, she's been through the ups and downs and made me a better person," he continued. "I don't know where I'd be without her. So, for me to get the message of the album out there, I want to start with this song and this important message about the women in my life, the women in our lives. There'd be nothing without them. For me, it's just an important way to start the album."

It was Josh Kear, the songwriter whom Dierks Bentley penned "Drunk on a Plane" with, that came up with the idea for this song. Bentley recalled to The Boot: "I heard it, and I just thought, 'I don't know what that is, but I love it.' It was the same thing when I first heard 'Drunk on a Plane' - I love drinking, and I love planes - and with 'Woman, Amen' I had that same feeling of, I don't know what that is, but let's just write it."