Keith Urban winds down year-plus tour
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Keith Urban winds down year-plus tour

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 – A year-plus of touring for Keith Urban is winding down this month after a quick jaunt to his native Australia in March. Urban has performed as the "Love, Pain & the whole crazy World Tour" since last year and this winter also toured with Carrie Underwood.

He returned to Australia where he performed at the Byron Bay East Coast Blues & Roots Festival, Point Nepean "A Music Experience" Music Festival, and Tasmania Southern Roots Festival. On a brief stint that began on March 20 in Byron Bay, Urban performed alongside Patty Griffin and Wilco and joined fellow Australian John Butler on his "Funky Tonight" and John Fogerty onstage at the Point Nepean "A Music Experience" Music Festival, before playing two shows in Sydney. Urban had performed the song with Butler at last year's ARIA (Australian Records Industry Association) Awards. Urban also lent his guitar skills to Fogerty, performing "Broken Down Cowboy," a new song from Fogerty's latest release. The two first met nearly three years ago when taping a CMT Crossroads episode.

Urban is now set to return to the U.S. on April 9 for the final leg of his "Love, Pain & the whole crazy Carnival Ride Tour" with Underwood. He finishes more than a year of touring in Lexington, Ky. on April 26.


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