All for the Hall benefit raises $712K
Keith Urban and Vince Gill led a star-studded evening that featured performances from Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Peter Frampton, Emmylou Harris, Sam Hunt, Jason Isbell, Chris Janson, Tracy Lawrence, Maddie & Tae, and Maren Morris.
To date, the benefit concert has netted more than $3.3 million.
During the concert, a group of more than 20 students from Nashville's McGavock High School performed an original song, "Limited Time Offer," with Gill, Urban and songwriters Gary Burr and Georgia Middleman. Middleman and Burr co-wrote the song with the students through the museum's Words & Music program.
Many performers paid tribute to Merle Haggard. During the finale, Gill and Urban returned to the stage to perform Haggard's "Sing Me Back Home." Many of the performers then gathered on stage to pay tribute through a version of Haggard's "Mama Tried."
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CD reviews
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 ...
Even though Keith Urban's single, "Wasted Time," borrows more than a little sonic sensibility from electronic music, there's still an upfront banjo solo. And this is how it's always been with Urban. He may play the part of the guitar hero at times, and even revealed his eclectic musical knowledge as a judge on American Idol, but Urban will always be a country boy at heart. And boyish good looks and talent have taken this country boy far, too.
The wonderfully titled ...
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