Side by side: Country star Dierks Bentley and folk mainstay Loudon Wainwright III

Truth to tell, there aren’t a lot of similarities between Loudon Wainwright III and Dierks Bentley.
One is a massively popular mainstream singer, the other a perennial but deeply respected cult figure in the folk world, patriarch of an extended musical family who made the charts with exactly one song, Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road, back in 1972. Bentley has had much more of an impact on the radio, charting number one hits from his 2001 debut on. Home, Somewhere on a Beach, and Am I