{"id":43277,"date":"2025-04-01T05:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T09:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=43277"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:36:17","slug":"dierks-bentley-was-once-banned-from-the-opry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/dierks-bentley-was-once-banned-from-the-opry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley Was Once BANNED From The Opry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Opry 100: A Live Celebration&#8221; was on held recently and there were some great collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best parts of the night was when Dierks Bentley came out with Jamey Johnson and fiddle player Ketch Secor for their Charlie Daniels Band tribute.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHb0vKsRwX8\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>So, would it surprise you to know that Dierks Bentley was once BANNED from the Grand Ole Opry before he ever performed there?<\/p>\n<p>Before Dierks was famous he used to work as a researcher for the Nashville Network, so he would sneak backstage to gain access to the country stars.<\/p>\n<p>That was until the General Manager caught wind of it, and Dierks got his access to the Opry PERMANENTLY REVOKED.<\/p>\n<p>But turns out it wasn&#8217;t permanent at all.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was lifted in 2003 when he played his first show there, and in 2005 he was inducted as a member.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0vmU0T82yt4?si=aPIJBdHkh1f0vSu-&amp;t=135\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dierks Bentley Is the Only Artist Banned by the Grand Ole Opry Before Even Playing There","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":43278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6146,6147,233,164,445],"class_list":["post-43277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-ban","tag-banned","tag-dierks-bentley","tag-grand-ole-opry","tag-opry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 03:55:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/dierks-bentley-was-once-banned-from-the-opry\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43279,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43277\/revisions\/43279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}