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Title: A Place in the Sun- Keith Urban Interview Post by the purple o on Dec 10th, 2006, 7:54pm I thought the Keith fans might be interested. This interview was done a few days pre-rehab. You have to buy the magazine to read the rest. :( A Place in the Sun by Bill DeMain �Let�s get some light in here,� says Keith Urban. We�ve just boarded his El Mirage tour bus, resting in the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store in Nashville. The plush interior�with its chocolate leather seats, mahogany bar and array of mirrors�brings to mind a retro bachelor pad. Urban immediately heads for the window in the main cabin to open the blinds. It�s clear, and buckets of sunshine pour in. �I was raised in Australia, and I�m used to blue skies and great weather,� he says. �They�re important to my center and spirituality. I�ve tried to keep that alive by writing about it in my songs.� He pauses and adds, �I think it�s a much deeper analogy, too, of always walking toward the light.� Urban�s path to the light has often been rocky, paved with dashed record deals, career lulls and drug problems. �I think we go through what I refer to as portals, and it can be quite tumultuous,� explains the 39-year-old. �But you can reemerge out the other side much stronger and wiser.� Strength and wisdom took years to come by. Since his major-label debut as a member of the Ranch in 1997 to his breakthrough with 1999�s self-titled American solo album, Urban�s rock-fueled style has lofted 13 songs into Billboard�s country Top 10, more than half of them chart-toppers. He has won numerous industry awards including a Grammy in 2005 for Best Male Country Vocal Performance, the Country Music Association�s coveted Entertainer of the Year honor, and last month, the CMA�s Male Vocalist of the Year. His last two albums went triple platinum�and he�s one of the few entertainers who can drive female fans wild while simultaneously impressing guitarists with his fiery fretboard skills. Urban�s latest album, Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing, finds him celebrating just what the title suggests�especially the �love� part. The uplifting first single, �Once in a Lifetime,� was written for famous bride Nicole Kidman (they wed in June in Sydney, Australia) and sounds like a ready made wedding standard for the 21st century. Unfortunately, the �pain� part of that equation isn�t entirely in the past yet. After we spoke, Urban checked into a rehabilitation treatment center, having apparently suffered a relapse of the substance-abuse problems that led him to undergo rehab in the late 1990s. �One can never let one�s guard down on recovery, and I�m afraid that I have,� he explained in a statement. �With the strength and unwavering support I am blessed to have from my wife, family and friends, I am determined and resolved to a positive outcome.� As we learned in our intimate discussion with him, positive outcomes are what Keith Urban has always sought. Many of your songs�from �Somebody Like You� to �Once in a Lifetime� on the new album�have a theme of renewal. It seems to be a subject that has a strong emotional resonance for you. I think there�s that kind of phoenix aspect in me. To say �to be reborn� is a bit of a denominational way to phrase it, and I don�t mean it in that sense. I mean rebirth in terms of the various phases we go through in our life. I subscribe to that. Did you write �Once in a Lifetime� before or after you met your wife? After. It was actually written the morning after this year�s Oscars. It came from a lot of conversation that transpired, and it was something that I felt very strongly to put into words as best I could�my intentions, where my heart really was. I didn�t mean to write a song about it, but I had a writing session the next morning and that was weighing heavy on my heart. [Co-writer] John Shanks had this great melody and groove, and the lyrics came pretty easily. http://www.performingsongwriter.com/pages/home/main_top.cfm |
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Title: Re: A Place in the Sun- Keith Urban Interview Post by Shannon on Dec 10th, 2006, 10:28pm Thanks so much for posting this! |
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