Urban celebrates the release of his new album with 25k fans
Thousands packed the streets of Broadway in downtown Nashville last night (Thurs, Sept 19th), to celebrate the release of Keith Urban’s new album High. The concert, another in a series of pop-up shows that have seen Urban surprise crowds in Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, BNA Airport in Nashville, Sydney, Brisbane, and a Buc-ee’s parking lot in Alabama, lasted nearly 90 minutes and featured first-time performances of songs from the project which is available now via UMG Nashville.
Urban has spent much of the past several months releasing music from High including “Straight Line,” “Gome Home W U” with Lainey Wilson, “Wildside,” “Heart Like a Hometown,” and his current single, “Messed Up As Me.” Urban’s first album in nearly four years, High is a musical journey, intentionally sequenced through themes of what it is to be alive, human connection, cutting loose, huge hook choruses, hope, nostalgia, shredding solos, straight-up fun, and some personal life revelations.
“Of all the things that have changed in my life, one has been a constant. I love making music,” Urban states. “It’s the mystery and the energy of it. I’ve never surfed, but I have a feeling that when I’m writing a song, or when I’m in the studio recording it, or even when it’s coming to life on stage, it’s the same feeling of being ‘in the flow’. It’s timeless, it’s weightless – and I feel high. These songs flowed very much like that.”
This surprise stop in Nashville is one of the many that have taken place over the past several weeks. In addition to his pop-up and club shows and driving excursions, by the end of the month, Urban will have stopped in Sydney, Brisbane, Nashville, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, and Toronto for national television appearances, digital content and collaborations, podcasts and network television specials.
Tomorrow night (Sat, Sept 21st), Urban will perform live in Las Vegas at the single-day iHeart Music Festival, which airs live on Hulu, before heading to New York to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, September 24th and The Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday, September 26th before heading back to Nashville on September 26th to perform live on The People’s Choice Country Awards on NBC.
Urban opens his Keith Urban’s High in Vegas, ten exclusive performances at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on October 4th. Additional shows are scheduled for October 5, 9, 11-12, and February 14-15, 19, 21-22.
