It’s virtually impossible to get a good picture of Keith Urban playing live. He moves around the stage so much and spends a whole lot of time with his face down and his eyes on his guitar. But if you shoot enough photos, eventually one works. This picture is one of the first good ones I ever took of him. It was outdoors, in the evening, with a slight breeze. And I was thinking about it today because some of his biggest fans are putting together a 2010 calendar to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It will be full of photos taken by fans, so whether you shot them or just want to look at them as you flip from month to month, this is a great way to spend 2010. E-mail your best shots (no more than 15 of them, though) to kucalendar@keithurbanfans.com by Sept. 18. And stay tuned on how to order the calendars for a good cause later in the year.
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Watch Taylor Swift and her band prank Keith Urban during his August 8, 2009 concert in Kansas City, MO.
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Keith Urban’s hit song “Sweet Thing” was certified digitally gold today by the RIAA! Congrats Keith!!!
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This weeks Urban Developments installment is fantastic. Keith Urban is lookin and sounding mighty fine and I’m pretty stoked about my Nashville show in August.
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Don’t get all excited. I don’t actually have the video that Nicole Kidman put together to celebrate her daughter Sunday’s first birthday. Only their families got copies. But in my mind, it’s adorable. Maybe even set to one of Keith Urban’s songs. I took so many movies and pictures of my first baby’s first year. I had practically a whole photo album devoted to every milestone. There was the Crawling album, the First Attempts at Eating album and so on. My older kids’ firsts were not that well documented. But Urban told the Sydney Morning Herald in Australia, “My wife made a beautiful video that covered her first year and we gave that to all the family.” Then they reportedly had a little cake at home in Nashville with the baby who Urban describes as having all Nic’s good features: “The eyes are probably like mine, but she has got Nic’s skin and hair, and long legs.”
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Imagine being on tour with one of the biggest names in country music….and being asked to sing a song that you don’t know…what would you do?
When country music superstar Keith Urban asked both Dierks Bentley and Jason Aldean to join him on stage for the 1975 Eagles hit “Take It To The Limit” at two separate tour dates in VA and KS, he wasn’t prepared for his opening acts to have to think on their feet. Each secretly devised last-minute “cheat sheets” to help them with the song that neither had previously performed live. Bentley scribbled out the lyrics on his forearm with a Sharpie, and Aldean followed by taping the printed lyrics sheet to his mic stand with gaffe tape. Once he realized what both acts were up to, Urban didn’t let either get away without a little public humiliation in front of both sold out crowds. Thankfully, the fans were more than happy to come to both Bentley and Aldean’s rescue, creating an arena-wide sing-a-long.
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When I interviewed Keith Urban last month, we talked a lot about guitars. Well, he talked. I listened. He had a lot to say about his whole arsenal. But the thrill in his voice seemed to go up a notch when we got around to his latest creation.
It’s a Fender, and senior master guitar builder and artist Yuriy Shishkov made this Telecaster just for Urban. Urban told me it was his love of Kiss‘ Paul Stanley growing up and his Mirror Ball Iceman guitar that gave him the idea for his own decked-out guitar. “I was always mesmerized by his guitar. So we reached out to the guy who’d made one for Paul, so we could do a Telecaster with that same look. Like broken pieces of mirror all over it.”
When I asked him how heavy it was, he said very. “I’ve had a ‘56 Les Paul and a Strat that were real back breakers, so I should be fine,” he said. And when I asked him how it would sound, he laughed and told me, “You’ll be blinded into thinking it sounds good.”
Urban didn’t get to see Kiss play live until about five years ago. But growing up, he’d watched the band on television. “I saw that guitar, and it just stayed with me. I always want to add something to the show. Although I may only play it on one or two songs, because it’s pretty over the top.” Indeed, you can see the new guitar on his webisodes from his shows in the Carolinas. It is covered with hundreds of fragments of hand-cut mirrored glass.
But because he’s Keith Urban — the man who’s occasionally listed in liner notes as playing the cardboard box — he makes the guitar look downright lightweight, and he makes it sound like he’s been playing it for years.
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Keith Urban and Counting Crows are booked for their only show together at Summerfest in Milwaukee, Wis., on Friday night (June 26).
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May 4, 2009 — Keith Urban’s much-publicized Escape Together World Tour kicks off Thursday in Connecticut, and the rehearsals came to a conclusion last week at the Sommet Center in Nashville.
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Keith Urban debuted his new webisode series last month, and even though it’s been a few weeks, the series still has no name! The weekly webisodes air each Thursday and are a behind-the-scenes look at the inside music world of Keith and his band! You can view the webisodes - and submit YOUR idea for a webisode name (winner will receive a Keith Urban prize pack!) - on Keith’s website.
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