Urban gets grounded
Thursday, September 12, 2013 – Keith Urban can't blame a blown "Fuse" for failure to show up in Cleveland tonight. The weather grounded Urban and his band, meaning he could not make it in time for the show.
However, he said via YouTube that if fans could make it on Sunday, they will be treated to a longer set than had been planned.
"We've been here for hours and hours waiting to take off," said Urban, seeming disappointed. He said they were "waiting for the storm to blow by and lightning as well. So they haven't been able to refuel the plane. So, we can't play tonight." It was not clear where Urban was when he made the announcement, but he played the David Letterman show Wednesday night.
"If you can join us, come back because we're going to play longer than we would have tonight, and we're going to do all that we can to make it up to you," Urban said.
In Urban's absence, Dustin Lynch and Little Big Town played anyway.
More news for Keith Urban
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- 08/18/25: Urban, Tamworth fest establish scholarship
- 05/05/25: ACM honors Urban with Triple Crown Award
- 01/13/25: Urban goes north
- 12/09/24: Urban returns to touring
- 10/25/24: Jelly Roll, Urban, Combs headline Tortuga Fest
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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