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Urban gets acoustic with Yahoo!

Monday, April 27, 2009 – Keith Urban's acoustic performance for Yahoo! Pepsi Smash is now live at http://new.music.yahoo.com. The appearance, part of Urban's promotional trip, earlier this month to Los Angeles, to support his number one CD "Defying Gravity," includes two solo acoustic performances of Urban's current Top 10 single Kiss A Girl and his recent number 1 Sweet Thing.

Last week, Urban and his band, began rehearsing in Nashville for his Escape Together World Tour, which kicks off at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on Thursday, May 7. He hits 58 North American cities. Supporting acts include Sugarland, Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Glen Campbell, Little Big Town or The Zac Brown Band.


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