Burning Man year that the event was held in the middle of the Black Rock Desert with no fence around it. Before the event opened to the public in 1996, a worker named Michael Furey was killed in a motorcycle crash while riding from Gerlach, Nevada, to the Burning Man camp in the Black Rock Desert. Harvey insisted that the death had not occurred at Burning Man, since the gates were not yet open. Another couple was run over in their tent by an art car driving to "rave camp," which was at that time distant from the main camp. After the
Burning Man (song) video. From "The Mountain" liner notes. Burning Man (song) "Burning Man" is a song written by Bobby Pinson and Luke Dick and recorded by American country music artist Dierks Bentley featuring American country music duo Brothers Osborne as a duet. It was released in May 2018 as the second single from Bentley's 2018 album "The Mountain". Co-writer Luke Dick said of the song, "The chorus is the idea of being a walking contradiction in some regards. There is — especially for artistic types‚ the feeling of wanting to wander or be out in the world, but also the desire to