Hey!!

Six Shooter (2009) and Streets With No Lights (2006) are now available for digital download worldwide via Bandcamp

http://dustinbentall.bandcamp.com/

i just posted a bunch of US and European dates in the “tour” section including 4 dates supporting one of my absolute heroes John Prine!!!!!!

It’s been an unreal summer. The shows have been so much fun and pretty much every day off I had In Vancouver I spent working on my studio tan. It was a good year to do that since vancouver didn’t get summer until midway through august. I’ve been shedding with Ryan Dahle at his studio finishing up the new record. We’re getting real close and I can’t wait to unleash this beast. We’ll probably be leaking something out this fall but lookout for an early 2012 Canadian release.

Check out these videos of the band at The Dakota Tavern in Toronto.

Directed by Joel Stewart

3000 Miles – Dakota Sessions

Draft Dodger – Dakota Sessions

Streets With No Lights – Dakota Sessions

Thanks again Calgary for an amazing weekend of shows. 2 nights sold out in one town that! that was a first for the outfit. We’re looking forward to the shows coming up in early July. A couple more dates have popped up so check out the tour schedule to see if we’re coming your way. Adam is going to be tied up in the studio all of July so we’re bringing our buddy Jay Smith (Matt Mays, Rock Ranger) out to play guitar with us for the run of dates.

We’re working on the new record right now and it’s sounding amazing. It should be done by the end of the summer. We’re crossing our fingers for a fall release but it’s possible it could be coming out early 2012… that is providing the world doesn’t explode!

I feel like I should apologize on behalf of my town (Vancouver) for the disgrace we showed the rest of the country and world after an incredibly fun, exciting and successful playoff run by the Canucks this year. I’ve been hearing that technology has pinned a number of the idiots who care not for hockey and have a mission in life to light a cop car on fire. There’s some great stories of individuals who have been shunned by their schools and communities because their faces have been plastered across facebook. BUSTED!!!

Cheers all, I look forward to seein’ out there on the road this summer.

db

Hello out there. Just dropping a quick note to say thanks for making last year such an incredible year. Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows and supported us, we made a lot of new friends. Secondly, I want to let you know that the band is getting ready to go in the studio to record a new record. I’m super excited.  We’re going to work with producer Ryan Dahle and the band is going to be Adam Dobres, Del Cowsill, Kendel Carson and Rich Knox. That’s a frightening amount of talent!

I’ve written a song with Tyler Kyte of Sweet Thing for this record and am heading out to Halifax this weekend to write with Jay Smith (guitar player for Matt Mays, Rockranger and Jay Smith) who has a killer self titled record coming out soon!

Also just found out that we’ll be playing at the Vancouver Olympics Anniversary Party on February 12th. They’re going to shut down some streets downtown and have a stage set up at Robson Square. Also on that show will be Jets Overhead, Hannah Georgas and Said The Whale.

-DB

I had the honor of being a part of Music Saves 2 this year. It’s a video produced by Shore 104.3 and VAMS (Vancouver Adapted Music Society). They brought together an all-star collection of Vancouver musicians to sing Dave Mason’s “Feelin’ Alright” to raise awareness and funds for musicians with physical disabilities. The video was premiered this week at a very inspiring event held at The Venue including performances by the VAMS all-stars, Odds, Dan Moxon of Bend Sinister, Adaline, Rolf Kempf, Kyprios and myself. Here’s a link to the video, Music Saves 2

As well here’s some links to some of the press it got this week,

Province

Vancouver Sun

Vancouver is Awesome

Westender

Put out the good vibes. We’re up for 2 WCMA’s this weekend in Kelowna!!!!

Next tuesday at 1:00pm Kendel Carson, Del Cowsill and I will be Busking For Change on Queen Street outside The Horseshoe Tavern. This is to raise money for WarChild. It’s going to be a great event happening at 10 locations around Toronto all day tuesday. You can donate online or come by at 1 o’clock and throw some change into the guitar case. Later that night we’ll be playing at the Dakota Tavern. Hope to see you out on tuesday.
Click on this link to donate!

http://wcc.r-esourcecenter.com/Event/FundraisingPage.asp?Participant_ID=271&Event_ID=19

Six Shooter was released in Europe last week on Blue Rose Records, http://www.bluerose-records.de/ . Here’s the best online translation of the first review as well as the original review auf deutsch!

8 of 9 stars!

The love and the obsession with rock music has received the Canadian Dustin Bentall in the cradle. His father, Barney was in the 90s, the front man of ‘Barney Bentall & The Legendary’ and attracts up today as a successful solo musician (most recently “The Inside Passage”, 2009) by the Maple Leaf State. Sohnemann Dustin presents with “Six Shooter” his second studio album, and breathes the term country rock with the eleven existing tracks new life.

Dustin Bentall wraps with a well-known ingredients to the finger. Here is one not to be underestimated strength of “Six Shooter.” Basically, the young Canadians playing “only” country-rock – that’s were already tens of times the difference: Bentall manages to completely pull out from the somewhat staid genre context and to design a completely fresh and compelling picture. The Dustin Bentall Outfit – Bentall, these are the only fixed sizes Pat Steward (drums), Del Cowsill (bass, backing vocals, guitar) and Adam Dobres (lead guitar) – shoot from the hip and hits the mark every time.

From bold Twang, to the romantic country ballad covers everything from Dustin Bentall, what’s in the Greater cover country rock. The lead-containing album title and the Western imagery of some songs, although in some places used to, but not later than the title track is growing awareness that if someday a serious live-action adaptation of Lucky Luke queue, Bentall with “Six Shooter” is the first candidate for a soundtrack should be slot . The songwriter, who shoots faster than his shadow!

The amazing on “Six Shooter” is that the eleven songs, the title – to make on the matter of the Lonesome Cowboy – so no honor. Six quick shots from the hip and finished the fireworks – until you have loaded, the plate to end. The exact opposite is the case! Especially in the second part, Dustin Bentall turns with the elegiac “Little Bird In A Big Wind” or on the thoroughly captivating Closer “Deserts Of Our Minds” powerful. Stark!

The Dustin Bentall Outfit

Six Shooter

Veröffentlicht: 30.07.2010 / Blue Rose Records / Soulfood Music

Von: Sascha Knapek

Die Liebe und den Hang zur Rockmusik hat der Kanadier Dustin Bentall in die Wiege gelegt bekommen. Sein Vater Barney war in den 90ern der Frontmann von ‘Barney Bentall & The Legendary‘ und zieht bis heute als erfolgreicher Solomusiker (zuletzt “The Inside Passage”, 2009) durch den Ahornblattstaat. Sohnemann Dustin legt mit “Six Shooter” sein zweites Studioalbum vor und haucht dem Begriff Countryrock mit den elf enthaltenen Tracks neues Leben ein.

Dustin Bentall wickelt einen mit bekannten Zutaten um den Finger. Hier liegt eine nicht zu unterschätzende Stärke von “Six Shooter”. Im Grunde spielt der junge Kanadier ja „nur” Countryrock – das gab’s schon zig Mal. Der Unterschied: Bentall schafft es, sich komplett aus dem etwas biederen Genre-Kontext herauszuziehen und ein absolut frisches und fesselndes Gesamtbild zu entwerfen. Das Dustin Bentall Outfit – neben Bentall sind das die festen Größen Pat Steward (Schlagzeug), Del Cowsill (Bass, Backing Vocals, Gitarre) und Adam Dobres (Leadgitarre) – schießt aus der Hüfte und trifft jedes Mal ins Schwarze.

Von beherztem Twang, bis zur romantischen Country-Ballade deckt Dustin Bentall alles ab, was es im Großbereich Countryrock abzudecken gibt. Der bleihaltige Albumtitel und die Westernmetaphorik mancher Songs ist zwar stellenweise gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber spätestens beim Titeltrack wächst die Erkenntnis, dass, sollte irgendwann mal eine ernsthafte Realverfilmung von Lucky Luke anstehen, Bentall mit “Six Shooter” der erste Anwärter auf einen Soundtrack-Slot sein sollte. Der Songwriter, der schneller schießt als sein Schatten!

Das erstaunliche an “Six Shooter” ist, dass die elf Songs ihrem Titel – bis auf die Sache mit demLonesome Cowboy – so gar keine Ehre machen. Sechs schnelle Schüsse aus der Hüfte und fertig ist das Feuerwerk – bis man nachgeladen hat, ist die Platte zu Ende. Das genaue Gegenteil ist der Fall! Gerade im zweiten Teil dreht Dustin Bentall mit dem elegischen “Little Bird In A Big Wind” oder dem durch und durch mitreißenden Closer “Deserts Of Our Minds” mächtig auf. Stark!