"Artist's Of The Decade"
One of the greatest guitar players in the world just happens to be a prolific songwriter with a soothing voice and movie star good looks -- all qualities that have made Keith a tenacious force in country music for the past decade. A consistent hit-maker, he has 15 No. 1 singles to his name, with every single song he's released in the past ten years reaching the Top 20.
"Best Album Of The 2000's"
Narrowing down our list of top country albums of 2009 to just ten was nothing short of an excruciating task. Country music has flourished this year, with both newcomers and seasoned singers delivering attention-grabbing efforts that please from start-to-finish, without any fillers. The Boot presents (after hours of debating) our top ten albums of 2009 -- not just the biggest sellers or radio pleasers, but the albums that we believe made the biggest mark on this last year of the decade.
Dec 30, 2009
Dec 28, 2009
Making Of Till Summer Comes Around
This is the Making Of Keith Urban's New Video That willl be out soon. It is called Till Summer Comes Around.
Dec 22, 2009
A very special homecoming for an Urban legend
At the end of eight months touring, some rockers might lose the passion for the stage.
But there was no shortage of enthusiasm, intensity and energy when Keith Urban rocked Brisbane on Friday night.
Perhaps it was because the boy from Caboolture was thrilled to back in his home state, no doubt playing for some of the same crowd who cheered him on at gigs around the South East before the big time came his way.
"We've come a long way since the Normanby Hotel," Keith told fans at the first of his two Brisbane shows. And so he has.Since leaving Australia for the USA in the early 90s, country-rock musician Keith has five mega-successful studio albums behind him and collection of Grammy wins and nominations. He calls Nashville home now, but Queensland still holds many memories for this super star.
When he looked around at the crowd and said "It's so nice to be back" you could tell he actually meant it.
Just as he meant it when he kicked off the show by belting out crowd favourite Days Go By and then settling down into a slower-paced Stupid Boy.
There was no going-with-the-motions feel to his performance, despite last night's show being the second-last in Keith's North American and Australian Escape Together tour.
And the fans - from mums and dads, nannas and screaming teenagers - were giving Keith just as much as he and his band was giving us.
Singing along to every word, Keith's male and female worshippers were up out of their seats in no time when Keith explained his concert was not one suited to a calm, civil audience.
"We beg of you to be as unruly and out of control as you can," he urged.
"Security - you just let them do whatever they want."
And some of the ladies in glittery tops and high heels certainly tried to when checkered-shirt-clad Keith made for the crowd, albiet with a few beefcake minders in tow, to take his guitar to a tiny stage in the centre of the audience where he proclaimed "Who's got the good seats now?"
The hero of the night then took a seat on a stool for a love-dedication ballad with love song Making Memories of Us, dedicated to wife Nicole Kidman.
"She couldn't be here tonight .. this is for you, baby girl," he crooned, smashing the hearts of women all around us.But Keith picked those hearts right back up with a strut through the crowd with his sparkly-strapped guitar.
He didn't just walk straight back to the stage, he did the rounds giving some a chance to pat him on the back or reach out to touch that bouncy, floppy do.I'm sure there were 20-something girls squealing "I just touched Keith Urban" as he made his way past and may or not be refusing to wash whatever part of their body that came into contact.The point of the night was, it wasn't just about Keith, it was about the fans who just kept getting treated to the power and energy of this local boy playing in his home town.
Speaking of local musos, the crowd was treated to a couple of tunes from Pete Murray who walked out on stage half-way through the gig.The pair sang Neil Young's Comes a Time, with Pete on the harmonica, then the pair shared lyrics to Murray's Opportunity before it was back to what the punters came to see.
Keith steamed into the last numbers of his set with Kiss A Girl, Somebody Like You and You'll Think Of Me - taking a another dash into the audience where he stood on someone's seat and strummed along up close and personal with his admirers.
The Australian leg began in Melbourne earlier this month and included concerts in Wollongong and Sydney.
brisbane times
But there was no shortage of enthusiasm, intensity and energy when Keith Urban rocked Brisbane on Friday night.
Perhaps it was because the boy from Caboolture was thrilled to back in his home state, no doubt playing for some of the same crowd who cheered him on at gigs around the South East before the big time came his way.
"We've come a long way since the Normanby Hotel," Keith told fans at the first of his two Brisbane shows. And so he has.Since leaving Australia for the USA in the early 90s, country-rock musician Keith has five mega-successful studio albums behind him and collection of Grammy wins and nominations. He calls Nashville home now, but Queensland still holds many memories for this super star.
When he looked around at the crowd and said "It's so nice to be back" you could tell he actually meant it.
Just as he meant it when he kicked off the show by belting out crowd favourite Days Go By and then settling down into a slower-paced Stupid Boy.
There was no going-with-the-motions feel to his performance, despite last night's show being the second-last in Keith's North American and Australian Escape Together tour.
And the fans - from mums and dads, nannas and screaming teenagers - were giving Keith just as much as he and his band was giving us.
Singing along to every word, Keith's male and female worshippers were up out of their seats in no time when Keith explained his concert was not one suited to a calm, civil audience.
"We beg of you to be as unruly and out of control as you can," he urged.
"Security - you just let them do whatever they want."
And some of the ladies in glittery tops and high heels certainly tried to when checkered-shirt-clad Keith made for the crowd, albiet with a few beefcake minders in tow, to take his guitar to a tiny stage in the centre of the audience where he proclaimed "Who's got the good seats now?"
The hero of the night then took a seat on a stool for a love-dedication ballad with love song Making Memories of Us, dedicated to wife Nicole Kidman.
"She couldn't be here tonight .. this is for you, baby girl," he crooned, smashing the hearts of women all around us.But Keith picked those hearts right back up with a strut through the crowd with his sparkly-strapped guitar.
He didn't just walk straight back to the stage, he did the rounds giving some a chance to pat him on the back or reach out to touch that bouncy, floppy do.I'm sure there were 20-something girls squealing "I just touched Keith Urban" as he made his way past and may or not be refusing to wash whatever part of their body that came into contact.The point of the night was, it wasn't just about Keith, it was about the fans who just kept getting treated to the power and energy of this local boy playing in his home town.
Speaking of local musos, the crowd was treated to a couple of tunes from Pete Murray who walked out on stage half-way through the gig.The pair sang Neil Young's Comes a Time, with Pete on the harmonica, then the pair shared lyrics to Murray's Opportunity before it was back to what the punters came to see.
Keith steamed into the last numbers of his set with Kiss A Girl, Somebody Like You and You'll Think Of Me - taking a another dash into the audience where he stood on someone's seat and strummed along up close and personal with his admirers.
The Australian leg began in Melbourne earlier this month and included concerts in Wollongong and Sydney.
brisbane times
Secret Santa
Store owner Tym Brennan told Australia's ABC Radio "I look up and there's Keith Urban and his band, which was quite a shock obviously. He spent about half an hour in the shop trying out guitars, and there was a kid sitting there trying out a fuzz pedal, which is an effect you get for a guitar. Keith came back down the counter and was chatting away and had picked out a guitar he liked. He had heard the kid trying out the pedal for some time and he just leaned over and whispered, 'How much is the pedal that kid's looking at?' "I said, 'It's $450, it's not a cheap one', and he just whispered, 'Put it on my card.' Obviously I was quite shocked.
"I said, 'Do you want me to tell him?', and he said, 'No, wait 'til I leave.'"
Before leaving the store, Keith shook the teen's hand and said "Merry Christmas".
Mr Brennan then told the young guitar player that Keith had bought him the pedal. "He looked at me several times blankly and sort of turned a bit white," Mr Brennan told ABC. "After he settled down a bit he rang his dad on his mobile and said that Keith Urban had just bought him a Christmas present."
Giving without even wanting a thank you in return is true giving.
Dec 19, 2009
Keith Urban To Spend Christmas Down Under
Dec 18, 2009
Spending Summer Of 2009 With Keith Urban
An unforgettable summer is the best way to describe the summer of 2009 on tour with Keith Urban. I don't know where to start. Till summer comes around was my best summer eve. There are 3 reasons why. (1) I met all my Monkey friends. (2) I met Keith for the first time in my home town & went to my first 2009 show. (3) Started to follow Keith around and went to 6 shows in the Summer of 2009.
Another Long Summer's Come and Gone, I Don't Know Why it Always Ends This Way" It was the best summer I have ever had in my life.I hated to see it end, but I know there will be another great summer like this.
I am so glat I was able to attend so Many shows this summer.I can't express how wounderful my summer was.
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Another Long Summer's Come and Gone, I Don't Know Why it Always Ends This Way" It was the best summer I have ever had in my life.I hated to see it end, but I know there will be another great summer like this.
I am so glat I was able to attend so Many shows this summer.I can't express how wounderful my summer was.
PLEASE GO TO MY FACEBOOK PAGE & LEAVE ME A COMMENT it is labeled Defying Gravity with Keith Urban this summer. My Facebook Page
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Keith Is Grateful To His Fans
March 31st, Defying Gravity is released just after the CD’s first single “Sweet Thing” becomes Keith’s 10th #1. The CD would hit the top spot, on April 8th, on both Billboard’s Country and Top 200 All-Genre Album Charts, marking a career first for him. The second single released, “Kiss A Girl” would become his 20th Top 5 and later in the year, just this past November, “Only You Could Love Me This Way,” would become his 11th #1.
On May 7th, Keith’s Escape Together World Tour launches with two sold-out performances in Uncasville, Connecticut. It would go on to play more than 60 shows before packed houses including sell-outs at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Nashville’s Sommet Center, throughout Canada and in Australia. The tour becomes a unanimous choice as one of the years best. It closes in Buffalo on October 9th following another sell-out at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
“My one goal for this tour was to achieve maximum connection with the audience,” said Keith. “By lowering the stage, removing all security barriers and creating alternate stages within the area, I wanted to create an atmosphere of total unity, but the level of energy from the crowd night after night was beyond anything I could have hoped for.”
On April 5th he performed during and won his fifth Academy of Country Music Award and on May 20th he appeared on the American Idol finale, performing his Top 5 hit “Kiss A Girl,” with the eventual American Idol winner, Kris Allen. He was named a Top 10 Mobile Artist by Billboard Magazine, and had “Stupid Boy,” “Tonight I Wanna Cry” and “Sweet Thing” certified Digital Gold.
October 13th will certainly be a hard one to top (even though he will try again in 2010). At Nashville’s Sommet Center, Keith, along with Vince Gill, hosted “We’re All For The Hall Benefit Concert,” which starred Urban and Gill and special guests Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Faith Hill, Lady Antebellum, Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley and Little Big Town. The benefit would raise nearly $600,000 for The Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum and earn Keith a nomination for “Tennessean of the Year.”
Museum Director Kyle Young would say of the concert, “It set a new standard for fundraising and brought together an entire community. It helped us to see just what can be done by individuals with a collective passion for a cause.”
Keith’s year was topped off in November with another CMA trophy, his sixth, his first American Music Award for Best Male Country Artist, four Grammy Award nominations, two People’s Choice Award nominations, a rousing performance to open the Aria Awards in Australia, as well as four nominations for the 2010 Australian Country Music Awards.
In fact, just this past week his 2002 #1 hit, “Somebody Like You," was ranked as the #1 Country Song of the Decade by Nielsen BDS (based on radio airplay and audience impressions). In addition, Keith was named the most played country artist (at radio) for 2009.
Dec 16, 2009
KEITH'S MELBOURNE, VIC AUS SHOW LAST NIGHT
Get a sneak peak into Keith's show at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, VIC Australia last evening. Here is the song set list played:
MELBOURNE – SATURDAY – DEC. 11, 2009
HIT THE GROUND
DAYS GO BY
STUPID BOY
WHERE THE BLACKTOP ENDS
BETTER HALF
ONCE
MEMORIES
ONLY YOU CAN LOVE
STANDING RIGHT...
SWEET THING
TIL SUMMER
RAININ’ ON SUNDAY
YOU MAY BE RIGHT (MEGAN)
KISS A GIRL
TOLD YOU SO
YOU'LL THINK
LOOK GOOD IN MY SHIRT
SOMEBODY LIKE YOU
TONIGHT
BETTER LIFE
KEITH OPENS HIS “ESCAPE TOGETHER WORLD TOUR” DATES IN AUSTRALIA
As one journalist put it, “I don’t know of any other artist that would do something like this for us, no less on the day of his first show here. It was incredibly gracious.” A few hours later, he hit the stage, before a sold-out crowd of nearly 12,000.
And Keith couldn’t be happier. “I’m most excited about being able to bring our whole show down here. We don’t usually have the time to do that, but this time we had about two months in between and it was enough time to put all of this equipment on boats and ship it over. It feels really good to do that because we’ve had this production since May of this year and we’ve done a lot of shows on this stage, so there’ll be a good familiar feeling being up here playing.”
Next up are Keith's two performances at Sydney’s Entertainment Center. For more tour information, head HERE now!
Dec 3, 2009
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban get festive
And you would be even more amazed to see her pushing her own trolley around.
But that’s exactly the sight shoppers at Los Angeles’s The Home Depot – the American equivalent of B&Q – were greeted by as the multimillionaire stocked up on Christmas decorations with her husband Keith Urban.
Kidman piled her trolley high with baubles and festive knickknacks as country singer Urban was responsible for the all-important duty of carrying the shopping list.
The Australian couple, both 42, were seen laughing and joking in the store on Friday as they strolled up and down the aisles.
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Keith response To His Grammy Noms
Yes, Taylor Swift continues her world domination with an amazing eight nominations, but we don’t wanna forget our other Nashville nominees, right?
Keith Urban tied with Kings of Leon with next highest number of noms for a Nashville act, with each getting four.
Keith issued a statement today:
“I wrote and recorded Defying Gravity to touch upon the power of the human spirit. I had no idea that it would’ve connected in the way that it did.
“We saw it night after night on the Escape Together Tour and to now end the year with these nominations is pure magic…” musiccitytv.com
Keith Urban 4 Gammy Nominations
Best Male Country Vocal Performance: "Sweet Thing"
Best Country Collaboration With Vocals: "Start A Band" w/Brad Paisley
Best Country Album: Defying Gravity
Best Long Form Music Video: "Love, Pain & The Whole Crazy World Tour Live"
The 52nd Grammy Awards will air on January 31, 2010 live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on CBS from 8:00–11:30PM EST.
GOOD LUCK KEITH
Dec 2, 2009
Only You Can Love Me This Way Hits #1
Keith Urban performed today, Dec. 1, 2009, at BMI's No. 1 party for “Only You Can Love Me This Way.”
Keith Urban didn’t let a tight schedule keep him from celebrating his 11th No. 1 song today. The singer flew in from Los Angeles just before his No. 1 party at BMI in honor of his latest chart topper “Only You Can Love Me This Way.”
But he couldn’t stay long: He had to hop back on a plane about two hours later and head back to Los Angeles.
“A No. 1 is an important moment, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have a few but it doesn’t diminish the excitement you feel,” Urban said before the party. “As a songwriter that’s equally (true).”
The song is one of the three on Urban’s Defying Gravity CD that he didn’t have a hand in writing, but the singer thought it was still important to be at the party in support of those who did: Steve McEwan and John Reid. Reid was unable to attend the party as he was reported to be on his way to Thailand.
“It’s important for this town that is so steeped in history of amazing songwriters that the song should be honored, and for me I’m coming to honor Steve and John and the magic that is songwriting,” he said.
Urban said he chose to record “Only You Can Love Me This Way” for its “fluidity,” the way it paralleled his own life, and the opening guitar riff — which he openly admits he wishes he had written.
“For me it’s about being authentic,” Urban said. “I can’t sing something I don’t believe in. And this song … just fit. I just sang it about my wife (Nicole Kidman). It’s really that simple. I’m in a place where I know exactly what that is about. They wrote it from their place, and I sang it from mine.” http://twitpic.com/rrgea
Nov 30, 2009
Keith Urban Opens Arias Awards
This marked the second year in row that Keith appeared on the Arias, last year’s being alongside The John Butler Trio, where Keith and the band played the hit “Get Funky Tonight.”
“It felt amazing to be back in Australia opening the Arias,” said Keith. “I loved being able to hear so much new music and catch up with old friends - and what a great way to kick off our return tour to Oz in December. I’m especially looking forward to the fact that we’re touring here (Australia) with the exact staging and production that we’ve had on the road all this year in the U.S and Canada.”
Keith will launch his “Escape Together World Tour” in Melbourne Australia on December 11 at The Rod Laver Arena.
Nov 24, 2009
A Thank You Video From Keith
Keith Gives a BIG Thanks You to his Street Teamers for all the hard work we do promoting him.Watch the Video below, and enjoy.
Nov 22, 2009
CONGRATS Keith
American Music Awards Tonight
Don't forget to tune in to the American Music Awards tonight on ABC from 8.00pm ET.
Gloriana beat Zac Brown Band to a Breakthrough Artist nomination, they are up against Lady Gaga, Keri Hilson and Kid Cudi. The country quartet held a great internet voting campaign, (you can vote here right up until the award is handed out!) and we have our fingers crossed for them!
Gloriana beat Zac Brown Band to a Breakthrough Artist nomination, they are up against Lady Gaga, Keri Hilson and Kid Cudi. The country quartet held a great internet voting campaign, (you can vote here right up until the award is handed out!) and we have our fingers crossed for them!
Nov 20, 2009
Nov 17, 2009
Allentown PA Fair
Keith Urban and the boys will play the Great Allentown Fair in PA on September 3, 2010. The show will kick off at 7:00pm.
Members of Keith's fan club, Monkeyville, can get presale tickets on Tuesday Nov 17 from 10:00am ET and tickets will go on general sale on Saturday Nov 21 at 10:00am.
Tickets are priced between $55 and $75 and you can get yours via Ticketmaster here, at Ticketmaster Centers or by calling 800-745-3000
To join Monkeyville and take advantage of the presale, click here.http://www.keithurban.net/
Nov 13, 2009
AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
sunday november 22nd 8/7c
About the Show Discuss Vote Breakthrough Artist More Get to Know 2009 American Music Awards
More Nominations Who will win? Performers Find out who's performing LIVE Photos Get an eyeful! 2008 Winners See who won last year! ARTISTS PERFORMING AT THE 2009 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
The following artists are scheduled to perform LIVE at The 2009 American Music Awards Sunday, November 22nd 8/7c on ABC!
- Green Day
- Rihanna
- Shakira
- Mary J. Blige
- The Black Eyed Peas
- Keith Urban
- Kelly Clarkson
- Daughtry
- Eminem
- Jay-Z
- Alicia Keys
- Lady Gaga
- Adam Lambert
- Jennifer Lopez
- Carrie Underwood
About the Show Discuss Vote Breakthrough Artist More Get to Know 2009 American Music Awards
More Nominations Who will win? Performers Find out who's performing LIVE Photos Get an eyeful! 2008 Winners See who won last year! ARTISTS PERFORMING AT THE 2009 AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS
The following artists are scheduled to perform LIVE at The 2009 American Music Awards Sunday, November 22nd 8/7c on ABC!
- Green Day
- Rihanna
- Shakira
- Mary J. Blige
- The Black Eyed Peas
- Keith Urban
- Kelly Clarkson
- Daughtry
- Eminem
- Jay-Z
- Alicia Keys
- Lady Gaga
- Adam Lambert
- Jennifer Lopez
- Carrie Underwood
Last Day To Vote
Keith is up for 2 Awards. Favorite Male Artist, and Favorite Coutry artist. Pleas go Vote now. Today is the last day to Vote. Click on Picture to Vote or go to www.amavote.com
Nov 12, 2009
Country Music Awards of Australia
Finalists in the 38th CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia are.
Album of the Year:
Defying Gravity – Keith Urban, produced by Dann Huff (USA) & Keith Urban
Hell of A Ride – Adam Brand, produced by Richard Landis (USA)
I Love This Place – Troy Cassar-Daley, produced by Rod McCormack, Troy Cassar-Daley & Jeff McCormack
Life At A Million Miles – Jetty Road, produced by Julian Sammut & Mark Moffat
Tailwind – Harmony James, produced by Herm Kovac
Male Artist of the Year:
James Blundell – Good Wood
Adam Brand – Hell Of A Ride
Troy Cassar-Daley - I Love This Place
Paul Costa – Survivor 1932
Keith Urban – Kiss A Girl
Female Artist of the Year:
Harmony James – Precious Little
Tania Kernaghan – Second Time Around
Amber Lawrence – When It All Comes Down
Lianna Rose – Angels
Felicity Urquhart – Roller Coaster
Group or Duo of the Year:
Carter & Carter – Surviving Black Saturday
Davidson Brothers – A Showman’s Life
Jetty Road – Life at A Million Miles
The Bobkatz – The Long Haul
The Bushwackers – The Good Old Days
Vocal Collaboration of the Year:
Tangerine Sky – Australian Country Music Unites
Ain’t Gonna Change For You – Troy Cassar-Daley & The McClymonts
King Of The Road – Adam Harvey & John Williamson
Courageous – Melinda Schneider & Australian Girls Choir
You’ve Got A Friend – Songbirds (Gina Jeffreys, Beccy Cole & Sara Storer)
Bush Ballad of the Year:
Droving Cattle with the Boys – written by T Kernaghan/F Kernaghan, recorded by Tania Kernaghan
Old Black Quart – written by Coster/Coster/Quinn/Pritchard/Corbett, recorded by Tracy Coster
The Dust of Kalkadoon – written by Ian Quinn, recorded by Dean Perrett
The First Lady of Country – written by Graham Rodger/Deirdre Willmington, recorded by Graham Rodger
The Road To Thargomindah – written by Colin Buchanan, recorded by the Bushwackers
Heritage Song of the Year:
Chasin’ Rodeo – written and recorded by Troy Cassar-Daley
Surviving Black Saturday – written by David Carter/Merelyn Carter, recorded by Carter and Carter
Survivor 1932 – written by Costa/Costa/McCormack, recorded by Paul Costa
Tangerine Sky – written by Tamara Stewart, recorded by Australian Country Music Unites
When I Was A Boy – written and recorded by Greg Storer and Sara Storer
Fender Instrumental of the Year:
Flying Pig – The Bushwackers
Fox On The Freeway – Davidson Brothers
It’s Not Easy – Joe Robinson
Jolly Swagman – Tommy Emmanuel
Waiting At The Station – Lawrie Minson
Maton New Talent of the Year:
Victoria Baillie – Make Me
Liam Brew – Girls With Girlfriends
Jayne Denham – Shake This Town
Ronni Rae Rivers – Running On Fumes
Lianna Rose – Jack
APRA Song of the Year:
Big Big Love – written and recorded by Troy Cassar-Daley
Girl In The Mall – written by Felicity Urquhart/Mark Seymour, recorded by Felicity Urquhart
Survivor 1932 – written by Costa/Costa/McCormack, recorded by Paul Costa
When It All Comes Down – written and recorded by Amber Lawrence
Why’s It Feel So Long – written and recorded by Keith Urban
Video Clip of the Year:
Big Big Love – Troy Cassar Daley, directed by Ross Wood
Don’t Do Lonely Well – Amber Lawrence, directed by Glenn Wilson
I Want My Tractor Back – Lianna Rose, directed by Ross Wood
Kick It Up – The McClymonts, directed by Myles Conti
When I Was A Boy – Greg Storer & Sara Storer, directed by Duncan Toombs
Single of the Year:
Big Big Love – Troy Cassar-Daley
Kiss A Girl – Keith Urban
Million Miles – Jetty Road
Ready For Love – Adam Brand
Shotgun – The McClymonts
And The Winners Are
Single of the Year – “I Run to You” Lady Antebellum
Song of the Year – “In Color” Jamey Johnson
Vocal Group of the Year – Lady Antebellum
New Artist of the Year – Darius Rucker
Album of the Year - Fearless by Taylor Swift
Vocal Duo of the Year – Sugarland
Music Video of the Year – “Love Story” by Taylor Swift
Male Vocalist of the Year – Brad Paisley
Female Vocalist of the Year – Taylor Swift
Entertainer of the Year – Taylor Swift
Musical Event of the Year – “Start a Band” with Brad Paisley & Keith Urban
Musician of the Year – Mac Macanally
Concert Of The Year__ Keith Urban
Nov 11, 2009
CMA'S Tonight
Be sure to tune in to see Keith perform at the 2009 CMA Awards this evening. The CMA Awards air live from Nashville tonight, November 11, at 8 p.m. EST on ABC. There will be nearly two dozen performances, and 12 big honors.
Keith is nominated for Entertainer of the Year, Male Artist of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, Album of the Year and Music Video of the Year.
Performers for "The 43rd Annual CMA Awards" include: Jason Aldean, Brooks & Dunn, Vince Gill with Daughtry, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Reba McEntire, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, and more! For a list of nominees click here to Vote.http://www.cmaawards.com
© 2009 Country Music Association
American Music Awards
Please go & vote for Keith Urban. Favorite Country Music Artis & Favorite Male Artist.The People's Votes count. http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/votenow.jsp
This is my choice for:
Favorite Country Artist
Nov 9, 2009
Defying Gravity CD
Keith Urban's new CD Defying Gravity is still in stores. Go buy the CD now. I promise youwon't be sorry.
Nov 7, 2009
Escape Together World Tour
Congratulations to the "Escape Together World Tour," along with KC Masterpiece and Kingsford for winning the Billboard Concert Marketing and Promotion Award. This award is entirely fan-voted, so thank you all for your support.
2009 American Music Awards
Cast your vote for Keith Urban to win at The 2009 American Music Awards! http://bit.ly/19Y7Hd
Nov 6, 2009
Pre Order 2010 Keith Urban Calendar
All pre-orders are shipped first before any other orders and are shipped on a first come, first serve basis. The expected ship date is scheduled to be on or around November 25th-December 1st. This year's calendar is jam packed with great photos!
http://www.keithurbanfans.com/onlinestore/
Nov 5, 2009
The Grand Ole Opry
It is Oct 30, 2009. Tonight is my first time at the opry. It was so AMAZING. Keith Urban was the last to performe.All his fans got to up & sit by the stage. Keith had Brian,Chris M. there to play. Keith sang 2 songs, and than he Brought out Vince Gill to play Making memories off us with him.He thanked everybody for comming & the curtin was draw back down.
Nov 1, 2009
Verizion Store
Going To Nashville Tnn
Well Today is Oct. 29, and I am headed back to Nashville to see Keith Urban again. YeeeeeeeHaaaaaa. My flight is to take off at 5:50pm. And ariving in Nashville at 6:15pm Nashville time. I will meet up with some Monkey Friends there.
Oct 28, 2009
Franklin Tn.
Keith will be performing an acoustic set at the Verizion Wirless location in Franklin Tn. On Friday Oct.30th.The Performance starts at 2pm. Admition is Free.
Oct 26, 2009
Opry
Keith will be at the opry on Oct. 30th, and I will be there with a bunch of my Monkey friends. Leave here on Thursday. YEEEEEEHAAAA
Oct 25, 2009
Escape Together World Tour Ends
THANKS FOR A AMAZING TOUR KEITH
Were All For The Hall Benefit Funraiser
According to information released today by the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, Keith Urban’s We’re All for the Hall benefit concert has already netted in excess of $500,000. That number will continue to increase from additional corporate donations (not yet tabulated) and the planned online auction of a Taylor Swift guitar donated by the singer following her performance at the October 13 benefit.“As Keith said from the stage of the Sommet Center, this was ‘one of the greatest open-mike nights ever seen in Nashville’,” said Museum Director Kyle Young. “We’re All for the Hall not only set a new standard for fundraising and event coordination, it brought together an entire community and helped us to see just what can be done by individuals when there is collective passion for a cause. There is no question that this is a game changer for us as we work to preserve the history of country music and teach its cultural importance to an international audience.”“This was my hope,” said Vince Gill, who is president of the Museum’s Board of Officers and Trustees and the creator and leader of the Museum’s All for the Hall fundraising initiative. “I can’t really believe it happened. This is a big, big payday, and times are tough. It makes so much sense to me for the artists, musicians and fans of country music to help out the place that documents and preserves our music and keeps all its great stories for our benefit and for discovery by future generations.” “Fans came from all over the United States and as far away as Canada,” Young said. “Many took the opportunity to visit the Museum. We credit this unprecedented exposure for bringing twice as many tourists into the Museum than is usual on an October Tuesday. Museum attendance during the days following the concert put the week in the ranks of the top ten since we opened in May 2001.”The concert, which took place before a sold-out crowd of 14,000 at Nashville’s Sommet Center, was also seen by nearly a million fans through a live online broadcast made possible by Verizon and Samsung, both key contributors. Nearly 70 corporate partners, listed below, played a role in the benefit by contributing products, time or funds.“To those on the stage and behind the stage, to all of the corporate partners who gave so generously, and to all of the fans who made the night what it became,” said Urban, “thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’ve never been so moved by the power that music has to bring people together, not only to share an experience, but to do such good in the process.”With the exception of Gill, Urban invited artists with whom he performed or recorded in the last year to perform at the We’re All for the Hall benefit.Proceeds from We’re All for the Hall will be invested in the care of the institution’s rare and unduplicated collection, in its vigorous schedule of school and family programs, and in enhancements for its core exhibition, Sing Me Back Home: A Journey Through Country Music.
Oct 21, 2009
American Music Awards 2009
Vote for Keith Urban for Favorite Male artist 2009. Click on picture to vote. And don't forget to vote for Keith in All 5 Catagories for the ACM awards.
Oct 20, 2009
Iphone Allpication
You can now get a Keith Application for your Iphone or your Ipod touch.
Keith Urban VIP Pass iPhone Application
Keith Urban: Call him at 1-888-617-0623 MySpace Music Videos
Keith at The Opry
Keith will be performing at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tnn. on Oct. 30, and I will be there. This will be my first time going to the Grand Ole Opry, and I am so excited.
Only You Can Love Me This Way
Keith's latest single, "Only You Can Love Me This Way," has taken the number one spot on country radio charts this week. This song is the third single released off the Defying Gravity album.
Only You Can Love Me This Way
Keith Urban: Call him at 1-888-617-0623 | MySpace Music Videos
Only You Can Love Me This Way
Keith Urban: Call him at 1-888-617-0623 | MySpace Music Videos
Oct 19, 2009
Back Home
It is Oct 15th,I am Back home from Nashville Tnn. I will rest up for 2 weeks, and than I will head back to Nashville to see Keith Urban Performe at the grand ole opry. I can't wait. This will be my first time going to the Opry.
Oct 18, 2009
Last Day In Nashville
This is the day after the BIG we're all for the hall concert. We dcided to stay in Nashville one more day and look aground.Met up with some Monkey's for lunch. Took one Monkey to the airport, and rode around Nashville. Shoped and went to the Country Music Hall Of Fame Musium. What a wounderful place. They even have a store you can shop at.
Heading To Nashville TNN
Today is Oct 13.This is a very special day for me. I am heading to Nashville for the very first time to See Keith Urban as he host a benefit concert We're All For The Hall. All Money for this show will go to the Country Music Hall Of Fame. His Guest include.
Vince Gill
Prad Paisley
Dierks Bentley
Faith Hill
Jason Aldean
Lady Antebellum
Little Big Town
Taylor Swift
Oct 16, 2009
We're All For The Hall Show
Keith held a Benefit concert in Nashville TNN. On Oct 13th at the Sommet Center.It was a Blast. Keith did his set of the show, and than he Brought out Vinc Gill. Vince sang a song or 2 with Keith in the background singing with Vince. and they brought out Brad P. and he and Keith did Start a Band.Half way threw the song they headed into the crowed. As the night went on Keith brought out 1 Artist at a time, and each one did 2 songs as Keith & Vince sang in the back with each one. It was one Heck of a night.Keith and Vince announced that they will be doing another show just like this one in Oct. 2010. You better believe I will be there. http://countrymusichalloffame.com/site/news_detail.aspx?cid=4330
Oct 11, 2009
Keith's Road Crew In Buffalo NY
We are in Buffalo NY for the last of the 2 Keith shows.I headed over to the Buses to meet up with a few Monkey Friends. Met Chris R. and headed for dinner than to the arena. This show My Mom decided to go to.Wanted to see Keith for the first time. It was me and my cousin sitting together,and Mom had her own seat 1 section behind us.This show it was Sugarland for the opening act. they played for 1 1/2 hrs. They are pretty good.I have seen them 4 times this tour. Than it was time for Keith to do his set.And boy were we ever ready.This would be Keith's last show for the US for this year. WOW did he ever give us a GREAT show. Keith played for 2 1/2 hrs instead of 2 hrs.Keith told us that this is going to be a loooooooooooooong night, so we better call the Babysitter and tell them you are gonna be a little late.He than announced that his wife, Mother & Father were all here tonight.
Hit The Ground In Albany
Well what a show that was last night.I haven't seen keith sence June 18th in Charlotte NC. That was waaaaaaaaaaaaay to long.Me and my cousin got lost going to the Times Union Center,and the Center was right behind the Holiday Inn Express.But anyways went to pick up my Tickets at the Will Call window.Than we went back to the Hotel to get our Camera's and we got lost again.Shoulld of walked(LOL).Dum TomTom.So we finally got to the Hotel. We picked up our cameras,and headed back to the Times union Center for the show. We were going to get a shirt,but the line was to long, so we will get one in Buffalo. We were escorted to our seats, and OMG what seats.I couldn't believe how close we were to the stage.I knew they were 6 rows from the stage,but I thought it was on the right hand side on the arena but it ended up being in the pit.one of my Monkey friends saw me, and I went over to where she was. Opening Act: The opening act for this show was Sugarland.They were a wounderful opening act for Keith Urban.My cousin dosen"t like Sugarland,but she loved them,and thought they were great. FINALLY: The lights went down,and thumps were heard around the arena.The music stared, and the curtin was drawn down, and there he was.Keith Urban was FINALLY out behind the curtin. He started with Hit The ground Runnin. and ended the show with Better Half. Hailed a Cab, and the show was over. Next up Buffalo NY
Oct 7, 2009
Concert Day(Albany NY)
Well what a show that was last night.I haven't seen keith sence June 18th in Charlotte NC. That was waaaaaaaaaaaaay to long.Me and my cousin got lost going to the Times Union Center,and the Center was right behind the Holiday Inn Express.But anyways went to pick up my Tickets at the Will Call window.Than we went back to the Hotel to get our Camera's and we got lost again.Shoulld of walked(LOL).Dum TomTom.So we finally got to the Hotel. We picked up our cameras,and headed back to the Times union Center for the show.
We were going to get a shirt,but the line was to long, so we will get one in Buffalo. We were escorted to our seats, and OMG what seats.I couldn't believe how close we were to the stage.I knew they were 6 rows from the stage,but I thought it was on the right hand side on the arena but it ended up being in the pit.one of my Monkey friends saw me, and I went over to where she was.
Opening Act: The opening act for this show was Sugarland.They were a wounderful opening act for Keith Urban.My cousin dosen"t like Sugarland,but she loved them,and thought they were great.
FINALLY: The lights went down,and thumps were heard around the arena.The music stared, and the curtin was drawn down, and there he was.Keith Urban was FINALLY out behind the curtin. He started with Hit The ground Runnin. and closed with Better Life.
Oct 4, 2009
Hit The Ground Runnin
Sep 16, 2009
Counting The Days
I am counting the days till I go to NY. To see Keith Urban. First we will go & visit family for a few days. Than we will go to see Keith in Albany NY one Night, and a day later we will go to Buffalo NY for another show.Stay tune here for travel updates.
Sep 12, 2009
Albany BSE
Signed up for a Albany BSE this week. But it is a no go for me. Maybe I will get Lucky for Buffalo when I sign up next week. Keeping my Fingers & Toes Crossed.Buffalo will be the last show in the Usa for 2009 Than in December he goes over to Austrulia.Maybe he will add more shows for 2010.
Keith Nominated For 5 CMA Awards
Sep 11, 2009
KC MASTERPIECE AND KINGSFORD NOMINATED FOR BILLBOARD AWARD
KC MASTERPIECE AND KINGSFORD NOMINATED FOR BILLBOARD AWARD
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Keith Urban's Escape Together Tour with KC Masterpiece and Kingsford Charcoal has been nominated for the third annual Billboard Concert Marketing and Promotions Award. This award show is entirely fan-voted so log on HERE to cast your vote for these two sponsors, or find out more about the awards HERE.
Sep 9, 2009
CMA Nomatations 2009
Sep 8, 2009
We're All For The Hall 2010
Keith Urban Released a Statement Announcing a 2010 We're All For The Hall show.
KEITH SAID: We are overwhelmed and truly grateful for all the support that everone has given we're All for the hall benefit concert.We thank everyone from the bottom of our heart.Given the response we are thrilled to announce that we will be doing this again next year.
Sep 2, 2009
Country Music Hall Of Fame
Keith Urban will hold a special concert in Nashville TNN. On Oct 13th. It is call we're All For The Hall. All the money will go to the Country Music Hall Of Fame.This Morning Tickets went on sale to the public at 10AM Central Time. Within hrs all Tickets to this Event had been SOLD OUT.
Sep 1, 2009
Keith Press Conference
Keith surprised concert goers tonight at his Nashville, TN Escape Together tour date by announcing that he would be returning to the Sommet Center on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, for a special benefit show. "We’re All For The Hall" will be a unique concert, with all proceeds benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Keith will be joined by many special friends and collaborators including Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Jason Aldean, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum,Taylor Swift, Brad P. and additional surprise guests, to present a one-of-a-kind evening of music and camaraderie.
Aug 29, 2009
We're All For The Hall
KEITH URBAN ANNOUNCES "WE'RE ALL FOR THE HALL" BENEFIT CONCERT FOR THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
Keith surprised concert goers tonight at his Nashville, TN Escape Together tour date by announcing that he would be returning to the Sommet Center on Tuesday, October 13, 2009, for a special benefit show. "We’re All For The Hall" will be a unique concert, with all proceeds benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Keith will be joined by many special friends and collaborators including Vince Gill, Faith Hill, Jason Aldean, Little Big Town, Lady Antebellum and additional surprise guests, to present a one-of-a-kind evening of music and camaraderie.
Keith announcing this event live from the Nashville show tonight was shown on the home page of keithurban.net. If you missed it, you can check it out right here or on the keithurban.net homepage. http://www.keithurban.net
Aug 25, 2009
Keith To Make Big Announcement
KEITH URBAN TO MAKE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT DURING HIS NASHVILLE, TN ESCAPE TOGETHER SHOW THIS SATURDAY NIGHT
When Keith brings his headlining Escape Together World Tour Together With KC Masterpiece© and Kingsford© to the Sommet Center in Nashville, TN this Saturday night it will give him the chance to share some exciting news with his fans. For fans that cannot attend the show on Saturday, the announcement will be streamed live on Keith's website. So make sure you come back to Keith's website around 9PM Central on Saturday night. Keith will follow up this announcement with a press conference on Monday at the Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum. This event will also be streamed live on Keith's website. Stay tuned for more details to come!
Aug 9, 2009
Taylor Kisses Urban Tour Good Bye
Aug 3, 2009
KEITH URBAN EMAIL SIGNATURE CARDS
myContactCard has designed some new Keith Urban email signature cards! You can download the card for FREE, personalize it with your information and blast it out to all your friends and family. It even has links to listen to Kiss A Girl right on the signature card! Click HERE to get your card now!
Aug 1, 2009
HSBC Center
If anybody Needs Directions to the HSBC Center in Buffalo NY. Here is a Map. Click Below.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=one+seymour+knox+III+plaza+buffalo+12403&ie=utf8&om=1&z=15jwloc=a
Times Union Center Map
If anybody needs the map how to get to the Times Union Center in Albany NY here is a link to the site I found. Hope this helps everyone out. Click Below
http://www.timesunioncenter-albany.com/info/directions.aspx
Keith Urban Schedules Tour Around Family Time
Life on the road can be hard for musicians, but even more so when they have little ones at home. As dad to daughter Sunday Rose, 1, country star Keith Urban tackled the unique task of planning his Escape Together tour around his family. By only being out on the road for “three or four days at a time,” Keith is able to spend ample time with his baby girl and wife, actress Nicole Kidman. Although it meant expanding the tour to seven months long to “allow for that sort of schedule,” the 41-year-old says that it’s been worth it.
“There’s a certain balance that I’ve got to have in my life,” Keith explains. “My family is extremely important to me. Playing live is important to me too. So how do I balance the two? We structured the tour so I fly to the first date, then bus it to the next couple shows.”
The audience gets a better show as well, he notes, because the band doesn’t get burned out. “We’re not just going through the motions. Come the first show of each week, I’m chomping at the bit to play. Then we’re home for three or four days. There’s never a show when it’s like the 14th show in a row without being home.”
After battling alcoholism with a trip to rehab shortly after his marriage to Nicole, Keith says his current album Defying Gravity reflects his new outlook — and the joy fatherhood has brought him.
“I think all of these things — marriage, sobriety, fatherhood certainly — in the last couple of years, those have been wonderful turns in my life. They’ve just been wonderful
Jul 30, 2009
Keith Talks About His Past
Keith Urban comes to Blue Cross Arena, talks of his past, drugs and music.
It's a long way from Whangarei to Caboolture, and half a world again to Nashville. But as Keith Urban knows, airlines and the Internet are squeezing that world into a manageable ball, a global community.
Still, "I consider myself an Australian," says Urban, calling from his home in Nashville. "I moved to Nashville seven years ago, but I feel very much as Australian as I did 20 years ago."
Indeed, he sounds Aussie enough, although perhaps not rising to the cliché level of Crocodile Dundee. The re-nourishing visits to Australia are frequent, particularly after his 2006 marriage to a fellow Australian, actress Nicole Kidman. As Urban talks, their daughter, Sunday Rose, can be heard in the background. When a 1-year-old kid wants attention, it sounds pretty much the same, whether you're in America or Australia.
Urban — who plays Sunday at the Blue Cross Arena with young country phenomenon Taylor Swift — is now one of the biggest stars in country music. It's music that is thought of as quintessentially American, but no one has ever put a fence around it.
"My parents were big country fans, I sort of grew up in that environment," Urban says. He was born in Whangarei, New Zealand, and when he was 2, his parents moved to Caboolture, in Queensland, Australia.
"It's certainly not as big as it is in the States," he says. "It still struggles a bit. There are not enough outlets."
Urban began playing guitar when he was 6 years old. And if country was big in his household, he was getting out enough to hear the music of Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsay Buckingham. Urban's music might be filed under "country," but like most of the country heard on radio today, there's a great deal of rock influence.
A star of the Australian country scene in the early '90s, Urban began the requisite pilgrimages to Nashville, which fingered him as a session guitar slinger. He played on Garth Brooks and Dixie Chicks albums, and can be seen on the Alan Jackson video for "Mercury Blues." Of, course, Urban had other ideas.
"The transition seemed quick as far as when we finally went from clubs to arenas. But I spent 15 years in clubs," including The Roost in Henrietta, he says. "I've been playing in bands since I was 12. I left school at 15, and that's all I've ever done.
It's a long way from Whangarei to Caboolture, and half a world again to Nashville. But as Keith Urban knows, airlines and the Internet are squeezing that world into a manageable ball, a global community.
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Still, "I consider myself an Australian," says Urban, calling from his home in Nashville. "I moved to Nashville seven years ago, but I feel very much as Australian as I did 20 years ago."
Indeed, he sounds Aussie enough, although perhaps not rising to the cliché level of Crocodile Dundee. The re-nourishing visits to Australia are frequent, particularly after his 2006 marriage to a fellow Australian, actress Nicole Kidman. As Urban talks, their daughter, Sunday Rose, can be heard in the background. When a 1-year-old kid wants attention, it sounds pretty much the same, whether you're in America or Australia.
Urban — who plays Sunday at the Blue Cross Arena with young country phenomenon Taylor Swift — is now one of the biggest stars in country music. It's music that is thought of as quintessentially American, but no one has ever put a fence around it.
"My parents were big country fans, I sort of grew up in that environment," Urban says. He was born in Whangarei, New Zealand, and when he was 2, his parents moved to Caboolture, in Queensland, Australia.
"It's certainly not as big as it is in the States," he says. "It still struggles a bit. There are not enough outlets."
Urban began playing guitar when he was 6 years old. And if country was big in his household, he was getting out enough to hear the music of Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsay Buckingham. Urban's music might be filed under "country," but like most of the country heard on radio today, there's a great deal of rock influence.
A star of the Australian country scene in the early '90s, Urban began the requisite pilgrimages to Nashville, which fingered him as a session guitar slinger. He played on Garth Brooks and Dixie Chicks albums, and can be seen on the Alan Jackson video for "Mercury Blues." Of, course, Urban had other ideas.
"The transition seemed quick as far as when we finally went from clubs to arenas. But I spent 15 years in clubs," including The Roost in Henrietta, he says. "I've been playing in bands since I was 12"My parents could see very clearly that music was gonna be it for me. I had a job in a band on weekends, and they were playing during the week without me. They saw pretty quickly that I could be playing five, six nights a week, and earning good money."
The ride wasn't easy, though, and Urban took some particularly painful tumbles. Early in his Nashville career, addicted to cocaine and heroin, he did some time in rehab. He came out of it with a song, "You're Not My God," in which he refers to cocaine as "medicine that kept me from lookin' in my soul." And just a couple of weeks after the release of his 2006 album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, Urban once again entered rehab, this time for alcoholism. Kidman was with him when he checked in, and he spent his 39th birthday at the Betty Ford Center in California.
Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing and his latest album, Defying Gravity, are frequently viewed through the prism of these problems. And Urban admits that, yes, it is probably a fine way to listen to the songs.
"This record was really a record about the solution more than the problem," he says of Defying Gravity. "It's looking back at life. The two years preceding the recording, I received very strong love from my wife and my friends. That was what I was compelled to write about. I was interested in moving forward. It's a record about what's possible. Not seeming so weighted down by earthly things."
Gravity, it is suggested to Urban, naturally pulls things down; so it's the nature of things to fall. People are no different than apples dropping from a tree.
"Love defies gravity," Urban says. "It's looking at life from a different place, not thinking of the limitations. Spiritualism comes in."So he is a spiritual fellow?"Very much so, yes," Urban says. "This is about me being far more in the moment than I have ever been. We just have now. I find myself not being in such a hurry anymore. I have a wonderful marriage, and then our little girl comes along. I am immensely blessed to be at this stage in my life."
But if rehab and a family have offered Urban balance, he quickly points put that the plumb line is trouble. "Balance is never achieved," Urban says, sounding quite Zen-like. "It's just a correction, right? I only know that it needs correcting when it's out of balance."
Of course, when you're a top country star, and your wife is a movie star, we get to watch everything. "I can't say I resent it," Urban says. "It's this particular challenge that is what it is. ... Everybody has challenges worse than mine."
He does his best to keep his privacy. Urban recalls times when he played 110 shows in four months. Now, he's gone on tour for only three or four nights before returning home for three or four. "My wife and I are very, very private, very private people," he says. "We don't go to the opening of everything. We go to dinner, we go to movies, that's about it. I want to be home, it's good for me.
"But I love playing music. That is also good for me ...."
He rides motorcycles, which he calls "a good meditative thing." He reads, too. Currently, he's into All the Shah's Men, "about the origins of our involvement in the Middle East," Urban says. "It's important to ask a lot of questions. Look deeper in certain things that can be presented in a certain way, when you're only hearing one story." That kind of a reading list, and the fact that Urban played at one of Al Gore's Live Earth concerts, raises questions about whether he might hold some progressive views.
"I sometimes drive a '56 Lincoln, that's not the greenest car on the planet," he says. "I like to do my bit. But I never try to preach. I'm drawn to writing about love in particular. I've never been politically driven as an artist."
But we are driven to interpret. And an unfortunate residue of reading Urban's battles with substance abuse into his music is the risk of overshadowing the musical accomplishment of Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing and Defying Gravity. The albums are filled with extraordinary layers of sound, with Urban demonstrating that he's one of the most-complete musicians on the Nashville scene. His six-string banjo mounted on a guitar neck, the "ganjo," is just one of 11 instruments that he plays on Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing. Echoes of the Stones, Springsteen and Mellencamp emerge from Defying Gravity."When you say the word 'country' now, it's changed a lot," Urban says. "Now maybe you think of the Dixie Chicks, even Taylor Swift, but for a long while it was Dolly Parton and John Denver. When I look back at the music I grew up on, in the late '70s, early '80s, it was always contemporary, and that was Ronnie Milsap, Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell. And I don't think there was a cowboy hat in sight.
"The interesting thing about country as a genre is, it's also had the naysayers and the people saying it's doomed, it's not what it used to be. Even Chet Atkins was driven out of town for putting strings on a country record. And now there's a street named after him."
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