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Dierks Bentley Debuts Music Video for 'Hold the Light' From 'Only the Brave' Soundtrack
Dierks Bentley
The country singer co-wrote the song for the film, which follows a band of Arizona firefighters battling one of the deadliest wildfires in American history.
Country artist Dierks Bentley premiered the new music video for his song "Hold the Light" exclusively with The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday (Oct. 5). The song, which is generating Oscar buzz, is from the upcoming film Only the Brave, starring Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Taylor Kitsch and Jennifer Connelly.
The
movie tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a unit of
Arizona firefighters who risk their lives to protect their town of
Prescott from one of the worst wildfires in modern history. For Bentley,
an Arizona native, the story hits close to home.
"I was on the
road when the fire happened back in 2013, and we went out to do a little
benefit in awareness for these families and the community of Prescott,"
Bentley said. "So we did a concert there and got to meet some of the
families, meet Brendan [McDonough], the one firefighter that survived."
After his early involvement with the Granite Mountain Hotshots story,
Bentley was called into an early screening of the film and asked to
collaborate on the movie's original song, which had been written in an
earlier form by Bon Iver's S. Carey, composer Joe Trapanese and Jon Randall.
"The
song is special to me because I really connected with the story and
tried to put myself in their shoes a little bit, coming from not being
wildfire fighters but by being part of their family or something like
that," said Carey, whose brother-in-law is a firefighter.
Bentley
says he helped to rework the bridge and was eventually asked to record
the song himself. The video incorporates scenes from the film and uses
light projections because of the song's title.
"I’m really happy with the way it turned out, it’s probably one of my
favorite recording deals that I’ve had to be a part of, so I’m pretty
excited," the country singer said.
To add to that excitement, the
song is getting Oscar buzz in the category of best original song, which
Bentley says is really big for him, considering the other "really good
songs, like crazy artists, like crazy movies that are coming out from
people that I really really respect and it’s a tough list to even get
near."
Only the Brave marks Bentley's first foray into
writing songs for films, which he says is an entirely different process
but a challenge he enjoys and hopes to do again.
"It messes you
up, that movie is so powerful to me that for three weeks I was just
physically in a daze, it hit me so hard," he said. "Trying to put
yourself as a character in the movie and try to write as they would try
to say it, it’s a totally different way of writing, usually I just write
from my own experience."
Only the Brave will hit theaters Oct. 20. Watch the video for "Hold the Light" below.
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