Urban, Lady A, Loveless score Grammys
Sunday, February 13, 2011 – Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum and Patty Loveless were among the early winners Sunday of Grammys.
Lady Antebellum took the songwriter's honor for Best Country Song for Need You Now along with Josh Kear. Other songs nominated were The Breath You Take, Free The House That Built Me, I'd Love to Be Your Last and If I Die Young.
Keith Urban took the country male vocal performance Grammy for 'Til Summer Comes Around. He took it over Jamey Johnson - Macon,, Toby Keith - Cryin For Me (Wayman's Song),, David Nail - Turning Home, and Chris Young Getting' You Home.
Loveless won the Best Bluegrass Album category for "Mountain Soul II." Loveless took the honor over "Circles Around Me," Sam Bush; "Family Circle," The Del McCoury Band; "Legacy," Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band and "Reckless," The SteelDrivers.
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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