Dierks Bentley was joined on stage by Sheryl Crow at the 49th annual Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday to perform his No. 1 single I Hold On.

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The two played their acoustic guitars as they passionately sang the lyrics from the love song off Bentley's seventh studio album, Riser. They also hugged each other right after they hit the last note.

Bentley and Crow, who met through his wife Cassidy Bentley, are friends off the stage.

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"We all live in Nashville close to each other and we all have kids the same age," Bentley told The Tennessean.

"It's us and Keith (Urban) and Nicole (Kidman) and Brad (Paisley) and Kim (Williams-Paisley) can all kind of hang and we're all kind of pals."

He also explained what prompted the duet with Crow saying, "I got the opportunity to come up and sing this song and wanted to make it different and special and I asked if I could get Sheryl to sing on this song and they're like, 'Yes.'"

Crow also released her ninth studio album Feels Like Home in September 2013. The record was her country music debut and her first release under Warner Bros. Records.

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