Keith Urban film debuts
"I'm either unpacking or packing. It seems to be my life," Urban says as he kneels next to a suitcase on the floor in his Nashville home. That's the start of "Keith Urban Still Alive in '06," a 14-minute film that will begin airing at the hall of fame Friday, Sept. 15. The movie will take visitors behind the scenes with the Aussie superstar as he prepared for his 2005 headlining tour, Keith Urban Alive in '05.
The film introduces viewers to Urban's band, tour manager, production manager and lighting designer and takes them through the construction of the boulder-filled stage set reflective of Urban's homeland and love of the outdoors. The movie also shows Urban in rehearsal for the tour Keith refers to as "the visual realization of what I've worked (for) my whole life."
Screening will daily on the half-hour. It will share the Star Experience Theater with "The Star Experience," which offers a glimpse at the backstage production of storybook couple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Soul to Soul tour. The Star Experience will air at the top of each hour.
More news for Keith Urban
- 01/13/25: Urban goes north
- 12/09/24: Urban returns to touring
- 10/25/24: Jelly Roll, Urban, Combs headline Tortuga Fest
- 10/08/24: Urban named to co-host Nashville's Big Bash on NYE
- 09/20/24: Urban, Midland, ZBB, Tenpenny release new discs
- 06/28/24: Urban goes "High"
- 05/17/24: Urban gets "Messed Up" on The Voice
- 05/06/24: Urben gets HIGH in Vegas
CD reviews for Keith Urban
Following hits "Straight Line," "Wildside" and "Go Home W U" featuring Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban drops thematically driven and pleasantly electrifying album "High," a nearly four-year drop since 2020's "The Speed of Now Part 1."
Urban took great interest in feelings and experiences associated with the word "high," reflecting on his own passions approaching the sensation or "place of utopia" as Urban dubs it . ...
It's getting tougher and tougher all the time to justify categorizing Keith Urban's music as country. "The Speed of Now, Pt. 1" doesn't help. (What, is there a pt. 2 of this largely lame music on the way? Say it ain't so!) It's a relatively good pop album, for a Nashville pop effort, but there's just too much real country (Jon Pardi, Luke Combs) getting played on mainstream radio these days. The world just doesn't really need new Urban pop music. ...
It's telling how two songs on Keith Urban's "Graffiti U" album chug along to a reggae beat because pop rhythms and non-country elements are the obvious inspirations for this collection. Opener "Coming Home" may borrow (steal?) a guitar riff from Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," but this is where that country road begins and ends.
Urban follows "Coming Home" with "Never Comin' Down," which is introduced with a funky bass line ...
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