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Old 06-03-2002, 09:59 PM
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Cool Interesting little tidbit I stumbled across...

Hi all,

Okay, so I tuned in to the Academy of Country Music Awards show a couple of weeks ago (mostly in hopes that there would be some live performances of the songs from the O Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack, which didn't happen, but that's neither here nor there ). ANYWAY, I was rather intrigued by this long-haired blonde dude who was a presenter and who I thought sounded...English? Yep, you guessed it - I'm not real "up" on all the new country singers out there (give me Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Glen Campbell, Waylon Jennings, and Dolly Parton, I say! ). ANYWAY, I thought they said his name was Keith Urban, so last night I decided to look up his bio on the CDNow site and get the scoop on him. I found something very interesting in his bio...

"Born in New Zealand, Keith Urban learned to play guitar as a six-year-old in Australia, after a young woman asked to place an ad in his dad's shop window offering guitar lessons. His parents made a deal with her that they would advertise in return for lessons for their young son. The boy had natural ability. By the time he was eight, Urban was winning talent shows. He also was involved in a youth acting company which required him to sing, dance, and memorize lines, all of which led to the ease on stage which would serve him well in his music career.
With his father deeply interested in American culture and country music, it was also natural that Keith would gravitate towards country music early on, when he was influenced by the singing of Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams, and the songwriting of Jimmy Webb ("Galveston"). Urban added his own dimension to those influences when he discovered Dire Straits, and became interested in the guitar playing of Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, embarking on in-depth study and endless practice of their techniques.

At the start of the '90s, Australian country music was primed for a revolution. Keith Urban -- young, brash, blonde, rock-ish -- was part of that revolution. His first album saw him win several major awards. Throughout his riseUrban always had his eye on Nashville, Tennessee, USA. That's where the music in his heart was born and still lived. Almost from the beginning he made periodical pilgrimages to Nashville, forging valuable career bridges.

In 1997 Urban decided to base himself in Nashville. With his Australian bandmate, drummer Peter Clarke, he formed the three-piece band the Ranch. Their original bass player soon returned to Australia, but West Virginian Jerry Flowers quickly fit in.

Their live shows, featuring Urban's standout lead guitar playing led to a record deal with Capitol Nashville and a management contract with I.R.S. Records founder/Police manager Miles Copeland. The group's debut album, The Ranch, was released to critical acclaim in 1997. Critics raved about the album's unique take on country music and Urban's guitar playing. Other artists also took notice, and when the Ranch disbanded, other artists called on Urban to add some of his fleet-fingered magic to their records. Garth Brooks asked Urban to play on Double Live. The Dixie Chicks invited him to play on their second album. Matt Rollings, one of Nashville's top musicians, hired Urban as a session player on an album he was producing and the two immediately clicked.

Impressed by Rollings' knowledge of Nashville's session players, Urban asked him to produce his next record, another solo album. His tour in support of that album included opening for such major acts as Dwight Yoakam, Faith Hill, and Tim McGraw, as well as headlining his own shows. Ten years on he was doing to Nashville what he'd done to Tamworth. The result was American country hits for "It's a Love Thing" and "Your Everything," and a Grammy award nomination for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Rollercoaster." "



Pretty cool, huh? I mean, I'm kind of out of it where the new country is concerned, so I didn't know this guy, but were any of you aware of him or his being influenced by Lindsey? BTW, if you want a taste of what he can do on the guitar, go listen to a soundclip of his song "Rollercoaster" on the CDNow site. VERY impressive. And he's pretty cute, too!

Oh, and another thing...it mentions that when he toured in support of his album, he opened for Faith Hill and Tim McGraw. I've heard that the two of them would perform Go Your Own Way together as an encore number at the end of their concerts. I wonder if Keith came out and helped them out on the guitar solo??? Did anyone here happen to catch them in concert?

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Old 06-03-2002, 10:14 PM
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That IS interesting! I've never heard of this guy, but I'm checking him out. Thanks!
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Old 06-04-2002, 09:47 AM
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I've heard just a little bit about him and only know his work a little bit. I think he's actually Australian, but I'm not absolutely positive about that. He's been saying some nice things about Lindsey being an influence since he started to make waves in the country market. He's got good taste.... Thanks for posting that Lori.

I never have heard it, but I've been sort of curious to hear how Faith Hill and Tim McGraw divided the vocals up on GYOW. I remember reading a concert review that said Faith and Tim did the "duet" the same way Lindsey and Stevie did. Well...since GYOW was never a duet...that didn't help much. Did they country-fy the song or did they do it rocked up, I wonder?
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Cool Lindsey's Influence!!!

Hi Lori!
Thanks for that tid-bit about the influence
Lindsey's guitar playing had on Keith Urban!
My feeling is that Lindsey could have been
a top-rated country singer with his Guitar
licks and his expressive, breathy Lyrics!Sky
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I never have heard it, but I've been sort of curious to hear how Faith Hill and Tim McGraw divided the vocals up on GYOW. I remember reading a concert review that said Faith and Tim did the "duet" the same way Lindsey and Stevie did. Well...since GYOW was never a duet...that didn't help much. Did they country-fy the song or did they do it rocked up, I wonder?
Tim would sing the first two lines of each verse & Faith would sing the last two lines of each verse. They'd both shriek their way through the chorus, & a sizzling guitar solo outro'd. It was not country--it was "rock."

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Old 06-04-2002, 11:04 AM
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Interesting post, thanks.
i've heard of the guy but never really listened to him, i'll have to check him out....Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's version of Go Your Own Way isn't bad, its definetely not country. But like so many others who try to cover it, it lacks stong vocals, which is the greatest element of the song. So far, the best cover of the song i've heard is the Cranberries version, which appears on the Rumours tribute album.
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Oh jeez, duh. He's from New Zealand as it clearly states in the bio. Shows you how much I was paying attention.

Thanks David!
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