Keith Named Artiest/Album Of The Decade

"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.

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.

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.
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Secret Santa

While on tour in Australia, Keith Urban got in the spirit of the season. When he visited a music store in Brisbane, he noticed a teenager trying out an expensive pedal. Keith secretly paid for the item, much to the shock of both the store owner and the young guitar player.


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.

Keith Urban To Spend Christmas Down Under

Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman arrived in Sydney with daughter Sunday Rose from the US to celebrate Christmas with singer husband Keith Urban who is ending his Escape Together World Tour Over there. They looked quite relaxed and happy.

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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Keith Is Grateful To His Fans

On February 8th, 2009, Keith appeared in two performances on the Grammys; one alongside B.B. King, Buddy Guy and John Mayer for a Tribute to Bo Diddley and the other, a last-minute performance of “Lets Stay Together,” with Justin Timberlake, Al Green and Boyz II Men. It would prove to be an auspicious start to a 2009 filled with career accomplishments, which says Keith, “he will never forget.”



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.

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

Keith arrived at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne two nights ago after a two-month break from touring. He rehearsed with his band and then greeted nearly 50 members of the Australian media. He performed a few songs from his “Escape Together World Tour” for them and then answered questions on a range of topics including his return to Australia, his four Grammy Award nominations, the tour and his plans for the holidays.



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!

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban get festive

Shopping in a DIY store is probably one of the most unlikely places you would expect to see a top Hollywood actress such as Nicole Kidman.
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

Keith has received four nominations for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, which was announced this evening on CBS. Keith's nominations are in the following categories:




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

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