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Keith Urban History
Born in New Zealand, Keith Urban learned to play
guitar as a six-year-old in Australia, after a young
woman asked to place an ad in his dad's shop
window offering guitar lessons. His parents made a
deal with her that they would advertise in return for
lessons for their young son. The boy had natural
ability. By the time he was eight, Urban was winning
talent shows. He also was involved in a youth acting
company which required him to sing, dance, and
memorize lines, all of which led to the ease on stage
which would serve him well in his music career.
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With his father deeply interested in American culture and country music, it was also natural that
Keith would gravitate towards country music early on, when he was influenced by the singing of
Glen Campbell, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams, and the songwriting of Jimmy Webb
("Galveston"). Urban added his own dimension to those influences when he discovered Dire
Straits, and became interested in the guitar playing of Mark Knopfler and Fleetwood Mac's
Lindsey Buckingham, embarking on in-depth study and endless practice of their techniques.
At the start of the '90s, Australian country music was primed for a revolution. Keith Urban --
young, brash, blonde, rock-ish -- was part of that revolution. His first album saw him win
several major awards. Throughout his rise Urban always had his eye on Nashville,
Tennessee, USA. That's where the music in his heart was born and still lived. Almost from the
beginning he made periodical pilgrimages to Nashville, forging valuable career bridges.
In 1997 Urban decided to base himself in Nashville. With his Australian bandmate, drummer
Peter Clarke, he formed the three-piece band the Ranch. Their original bass player soon
returned to Australia, but West Virginian Jerry Flowers quickly fit in. Their live shows, featuring
Urban's standout lead guitar playing led to a record deal with Capitol Nashville and a
management contract with I.R.S. Records founder/Police manager Miles Copeland. The
group's debut album, The Ranch, was released to critical acclaim in 1997. Critics raved about
the album's unique take on country music and Urban's guitar playing. Other artists also took
notice, and when the Ranch disbanded, other artists called on Urban to add some of his fleet-
fingered magic to their records. Garth Brooks asked Urban to play on Double Live. The Dixie
Chicks invited him to play on their second album. Matt Rollings, one of Nashville's top
musicians, hired Urban as a session player on an album he was producing and the two
immediately clicked.
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Impressed by Rollings' knowledge of
Nashville's session players, Urban
asked him to produce his next record,
another solo album. His tour in support
of that album included opening for such
major acts as Dwight Yoakam, Faith
Hill, and Tim McGraw, as well as
headlining his own shows. Impressed
by Rollings' knowledge of Nashville's
session players, Urban asked him to
produce his next record, another solo
album. His tour in support of that album
included opening for such major acts
as Dwight Yoakam, Faith Hill, and Tim
McGraw, as well as headlining his own
shows. Ten years on he was doing to
Nashville what he'd done to Tamworth.
The result was American country hits for
"It's a Love Thing" and "Your Everything,"
and a Grammy award nomination for
Best Country Instrumental Performance
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