Dustin Bentall

The Dustin Bentall Outfit — Six Shooter

When your father is Barney Bentall, your album's called Six Shooter and there's a gunfight about to break out on its cover, your music better be heavy on Wild West themes. Dustin Bentall and his band definitely deliver in that respect. Opener "Railroad" is rife with harmonica and lap steel, and the word "boxcar" is tossed out...
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The Dustin Bentall Outfit's Six Shooter

Dustin Bentall @ NXNE 2009

Background/ Composition: Bentall comes from some fine musical pedigree (father is Canadian rocker Barney Bentall) and uses this DNA to his advantage. But his musical genes have more in common with Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Brothers than his dad's penchant for more middle-of-the-road rock. Bentall was backed by a kick-ass band that...
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Dustin Bentall @ CMW 2007

Background/Composition: Dustin Bentall, looking like a countrified Jared Leto, did his best to make himself seem like a rambling, travelling troubadour, but ended up being a self-indulgent, simplified "songwriter." A lack of real experience and poor fiction writing skills make this Neil Young wannabe seem like a bit of a poseur when...
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CMW 2007

Dustin Bentall Channels Neil Young On Debut

Vancouver alt.country/roots rock artist Dustin Bentall will play extensively through the spring and summer in support of his Streets With No Lights debut that arrives in stores on May 22 via Fontana North. The 22-year-old son of '80s and '90s Canadian hitmaker Barney Bentall cites influences including Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan and Wilco, and he...
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On The Road Again: Alexisonfire, Mothra And Dustin Bentall

Current Chart cover boys Alexisonfire will release their third full-length album, Crisis, next Tueday. The St. Catharines, Ont. screamo quintet aren't wasting any time in getting on the road to support the new record, and they're taking Every Time I Die, Cancer Bats and Attack In Black with them. Fans who bring at least two non-perishable food...
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