Chords for Keith Urban 'Wild Heart' Lyrics Reveal Something Personal About His Father
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[A] Keith Urban on Taste of [N] Country Nights.
Let's talk Wild Hearts, man.
You sing in the song about your first concert experience ever
was with your dad at a, or with your dad
was at a Johnny Cash show.
Was it emotional reliving those memories
while recording this song?
And will it be while playing it live?
Yeah, but it's a good emotional, you know?
That concert has, for whatever reasons,
I guess it's, you know, everybody's first concert
that always stays with you through your life, you know?
You get asked at different situations,
different people that you meet in your life,
what was your first concert, you know?
So that was a profound first concert for anybody,
let alone a five-year-old, to go and see Johnny Cash.
Yeah.
That's the loudest, drunkest group of people
I had ever been around.
And it was exciting, you know?
I remember little bits and pieces of that concert.
I remember just people, lots and lots of tall people,
you know, you're five years old
and you're just packed in this arena.
And I just, I was so mesmerized by how loud everybody was
and the sort of, where I was raised,
a very working class city, very rural,
very working class people.
So like party hard, work hard, drink hard,
everything was just full on and my dad was like that.
And so it was just a rowdy, raucous, awesome crowd.
I remember this big spotlight going across, you know?
And cause you know, when you're a kid,
you're like, wow, that thing is amazing.
This big beam going across, through all the smoke, right?
Everyone's smoking cigarettes.
And I remember the screaming of the crowd.
And then I remember at one point,
my dad's expression, like staring at this guy on stage
in a way I'd never seen him stare at somebody,
like transfixed.
And I'm probably, you know,
I'm sure a child psychologist would probably say,
it was my, I wished he'd stared at me like that, right?
You know, like I've never gotten that stare.
What's that guy doing up there
to get my dad's [G] attention like that?
So when I got sent this song,
it was, the song was already written,
but I didn't really like the verses of the song.
So I asked the writers if I could write my own verses
and, you know, eliminate the ones that they'd written
and just keep the chorus of the song.
And so I sat down to write the verses.
And that's, that was the first thing that came out.
Saw the man in black, spotlight in the air,
heard a thousand screams, saw my dad stare.
Feel like I've been running since the day that I was born.
Eagle on my back, Phoenix on my arm.
And then we're off and running into the song.
Wow.
Were the original lyrics,
were they about a concert as well
or was it a completely different?
No, it was just a completely different scene.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a very different scene.
It just, and I'm not saying it's bad.
He's a great songwriter.
So it's not, it wasn't bad.
It just didn't, it didn't speak to me.
As a matter of fact, I got sent the song
and I listened to it and liked it,
but it didn't, it didn't stick.
And so I passed on the [Am] song.
About a week later, I woke up very early one morning
singing the chorus of this song.
And I was like, it's a really good chorus.
So I listened to the song a few more times
and I realized it was the verses that was not [G] grabbing me.
For me, just me personally.
And of course, if I'm gonna record a song,
it's just gotta speak to me.
That's all it's just gotta do.
And I think the verses had so much of my truth
in already in the chorus.
The chorus already had so much of my musical truth in there
that I related to that I thought, gosh,
I've just got to, these verses are ready to be more,
more of me.
And so I got to the second verse
and I just thought about all the people
that had told me I wouldn't amount to anything
or was never gonna make it.
And, you know, so I just wrote,
as anyone ever told you, you'll never amount to anything.
You're just wasting your time chasing the tail of a dragon
kind of [Am] dream.
I'm here to tell you anything can happen in this life
if you've got the [E] heart and [G] the passion
and a God lit fire [N] inside.
Because that's what's carried me through all these years
are all those things still, you know?
Okay, but wait, who told Keith Urban
that he is not gonna make it
because I'm like ready to go fight them now, Keith.
Oh, plenty of people.
Plenty of people, but you know,
those shine blockers in our life,
those people that come along and just crap on our parade.
My experience has been that I'm really grateful
for those people because they've given me infinite fire
to burn on my whole life, you know?
Because I wanna prove them wrong.
Have you ever gotten to see one of those people
is post proving everyone wrong
and kind of see what their feelings are about you?
Not personally, you know, I don't know.
But I still burn a lot from that.
And I probably still burn on the fuel
of trying to get my dad's attention,
which I'm sure I got years and years before he passed away,
but I still probably, [Am] you know,
and driven [Ab] and driven by that.
So will this song be on, I assume,
like the Speed of Now part two?
I have no idea.
This whole thing happened so quickly.
I was here in town in May
and that's the song and the rewriting.
And I went down and quickly sang on the demo
that they'd sent me.
I just took the vocal off and sang on it.
And then I built some more things on top of the demo.
I sent it to my manager and I said,
I like this song, you know,
we should think about maybe what to do with this
down the track.
And he [N] goes, I think we just put it out now.
And I'm like, I literally just put out an album in September
and he's like, yeah, but this feels good.
Feels really good.
We should just put it out.
I was like, okay.
So I, you know, I don't know if it's part of the next record
or just a standalone piece.
I just know it's-
Dirk's Bentley told us one time that that's called,
he calls that his catch and release.
That if he hears a hit-
He stole that from me.
Thank you, Dirk.
Catch a hit and release it, baby.
It's called sport recording.
Catch and release.
Do you already have anything done
for the Speed of Now part two?
Yeah, I mean, I probably do.
You know, I haven't recorded anything thinking of,
oh, this is for that.
I just, you know, I think I just, I record songs
and before I know it, I've accumulated a lot of songs
and then I'll look to see if there's a way
for those to go together to be an album.
But honestly, you know, honestly, Evan,
I don't even know about albums for me right now.
I'm, I love writing and recording new music.
And if it's a song or if it's two or if it's six
or if it's 13, it comes when it comes.
And I just as soon to get it out, honestly,
just keep it coming, you know.
I saw you're returning to television,
the Australian version of The Voice.
Yeah.
So it's been five years since you left American Idol.
Do you miss it?
I loved being around,
I love being in that mentoring environment.
It's really cool.
I really liked that.
And that, The Voice thing in Australia
was just serendipitous because we had gone down
to shoot a project that my wife was doing
called Nine Perfect Strangers
and was being filmed in Australia.
And when that finished filming at the end of last year,
we were coming back to Nashville
and the producers of The Voice called and said,
hey, we heard you're here in the country.
Would you want to be a coach on The Voice?
And I'm like, when?
And they went, like February, March, April.
And I'm like, early April?
Cause I'm hosting the ACMs in April.
And they're like, yeah, yeah,
we can get it done before you have to go back and do that.
So it was just amazing serendipitous timing to get to do it.
That's fantastic, man.
Thank you so much for chatting with us.
We love talking to you, Keith.
Oh, my pleasure, Amber.
Good to talk to you.
It's always good.
You too, Evan.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah, yeah.
It's me and you, Keith.
Yeah, Amber does it all.
Got it.
Let's talk Wild Hearts, man.
You sing in the song about your first concert experience ever
was with your dad at a, or with your dad
was at a Johnny Cash show.
Was it emotional reliving those memories
while recording this song?
And will it be while playing it live?
Yeah, but it's a good emotional, you know?
That concert has, for whatever reasons,
I guess it's, you know, everybody's first concert
that always stays with you through your life, you know?
You get asked at different situations,
different people that you meet in your life,
what was your first concert, you know?
So that was a profound first concert for anybody,
let alone a five-year-old, to go and see Johnny Cash.
Yeah.
That's the loudest, drunkest group of people
I had ever been around.
And it was exciting, you know?
I remember little bits and pieces of that concert.
I remember just people, lots and lots of tall people,
you know, you're five years old
and you're just packed in this arena.
And I just, I was so mesmerized by how loud everybody was
and the sort of, where I was raised,
a very working class city, very rural,
very working class people.
So like party hard, work hard, drink hard,
everything was just full on and my dad was like that.
And so it was just a rowdy, raucous, awesome crowd.
I remember this big spotlight going across, you know?
And cause you know, when you're a kid,
you're like, wow, that thing is amazing.
This big beam going across, through all the smoke, right?
Everyone's smoking cigarettes.
And I remember the screaming of the crowd.
And then I remember at one point,
my dad's expression, like staring at this guy on stage
in a way I'd never seen him stare at somebody,
like transfixed.
And I'm probably, you know,
I'm sure a child psychologist would probably say,
it was my, I wished he'd stared at me like that, right?
You know, like I've never gotten that stare.
What's that guy doing up there
to get my dad's [G] attention like that?
So when I got sent this song,
it was, the song was already written,
but I didn't really like the verses of the song.
So I asked the writers if I could write my own verses
and, you know, eliminate the ones that they'd written
and just keep the chorus of the song.
And so I sat down to write the verses.
And that's, that was the first thing that came out.
Saw the man in black, spotlight in the air,
heard a thousand screams, saw my dad stare.
Feel like I've been running since the day that I was born.
Eagle on my back, Phoenix on my arm.
And then we're off and running into the song.
Wow.
Were the original lyrics,
were they about a concert as well
or was it a completely different?
No, it was just a completely different scene.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a very different scene.
It just, and I'm not saying it's bad.
He's a great songwriter.
So it's not, it wasn't bad.
It just didn't, it didn't speak to me.
As a matter of fact, I got sent the song
and I listened to it and liked it,
but it didn't, it didn't stick.
And so I passed on the [Am] song.
About a week later, I woke up very early one morning
singing the chorus of this song.
And I was like, it's a really good chorus.
So I listened to the song a few more times
and I realized it was the verses that was not [G] grabbing me.
For me, just me personally.
And of course, if I'm gonna record a song,
it's just gotta speak to me.
That's all it's just gotta do.
And I think the verses had so much of my truth
in already in the chorus.
The chorus already had so much of my musical truth in there
that I related to that I thought, gosh,
I've just got to, these verses are ready to be more,
more of me.
And so I got to the second verse
and I just thought about all the people
that had told me I wouldn't amount to anything
or was never gonna make it.
And, you know, so I just wrote,
as anyone ever told you, you'll never amount to anything.
You're just wasting your time chasing the tail of a dragon
kind of [Am] dream.
I'm here to tell you anything can happen in this life
if you've got the [E] heart and [G] the passion
and a God lit fire [N] inside.
Because that's what's carried me through all these years
are all those things still, you know?
Okay, but wait, who told Keith Urban
that he is not gonna make it
because I'm like ready to go fight them now, Keith.
Oh, plenty of people.
Plenty of people, but you know,
those shine blockers in our life,
those people that come along and just crap on our parade.
My experience has been that I'm really grateful
for those people because they've given me infinite fire
to burn on my whole life, you know?
Because I wanna prove them wrong.
Have you ever gotten to see one of those people
is post proving everyone wrong
and kind of see what their feelings are about you?
Not personally, you know, I don't know.
But I still burn a lot from that.
And I probably still burn on the fuel
of trying to get my dad's attention,
which I'm sure I got years and years before he passed away,
but I still probably, [Am] you know,
and driven [Ab] and driven by that.
So will this song be on, I assume,
like the Speed of Now part two?
I have no idea.
This whole thing happened so quickly.
I was here in town in May
and that's the song and the rewriting.
And I went down and quickly sang on the demo
that they'd sent me.
I just took the vocal off and sang on it.
And then I built some more things on top of the demo.
I sent it to my manager and I said,
I like this song, you know,
we should think about maybe what to do with this
down the track.
And he [N] goes, I think we just put it out now.
And I'm like, I literally just put out an album in September
and he's like, yeah, but this feels good.
Feels really good.
We should just put it out.
I was like, okay.
So I, you know, I don't know if it's part of the next record
or just a standalone piece.
I just know it's-
Dirk's Bentley told us one time that that's called,
he calls that his catch and release.
That if he hears a hit-
He stole that from me.
Thank you, Dirk.
Catch a hit and release it, baby.
It's called sport recording.
Catch and release.
Do you already have anything done
for the Speed of Now part two?
Yeah, I mean, I probably do.
You know, I haven't recorded anything thinking of,
oh, this is for that.
I just, you know, I think I just, I record songs
and before I know it, I've accumulated a lot of songs
and then I'll look to see if there's a way
for those to go together to be an album.
But honestly, you know, honestly, Evan,
I don't even know about albums for me right now.
I'm, I love writing and recording new music.
And if it's a song or if it's two or if it's six
or if it's 13, it comes when it comes.
And I just as soon to get it out, honestly,
just keep it coming, you know.
I saw you're returning to television,
the Australian version of The Voice.
Yeah.
So it's been five years since you left American Idol.
Do you miss it?
I loved being around,
I love being in that mentoring environment.
It's really cool.
I really liked that.
And that, The Voice thing in Australia
was just serendipitous because we had gone down
to shoot a project that my wife was doing
called Nine Perfect Strangers
and was being filmed in Australia.
And when that finished filming at the end of last year,
we were coming back to Nashville
and the producers of The Voice called and said,
hey, we heard you're here in the country.
Would you want to be a coach on The Voice?
And I'm like, when?
And they went, like February, March, April.
And I'm like, early April?
Cause I'm hosting the ACMs in April.
And they're like, yeah, yeah,
we can get it done before you have to go back and do that.
So it was just amazing serendipitous timing to get to do it.
That's fantastic, man.
Thank you so much for chatting with us.
We love talking to you, Keith.
Oh, my pleasure, Amber.
Good to talk to you.
It's always good.
You too, Evan.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah, yeah.
It's me and you, Keith.
Yeah, Amber does it all.
Got it.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ Keith Urban on Taste of [N] Country Nights.
Let's talk Wild Hearts, man.
_ You sing in the song about your first concert experience ever
was with your dad at a, or with your dad
was at a Johnny Cash show.
Was it emotional reliving those memories
while recording this song?
And will it be while playing it live?
Yeah, but it's a good emotional, you know?
_ _ That concert has, for whatever reasons,
I guess it's, you know, everybody's first concert
that always stays with you through your life, you know?
You get asked at different situations,
different people that you meet in your life,
what was your first concert, you know?
So _ that was a profound first concert for anybody,
let alone a five-year-old, to go and see Johnny Cash.
Yeah. _ _
_ _ That's the loudest, drunkest group of people
I had ever been around. _ _
_ And it was exciting, you know?
I remember little bits and pieces of that concert. _
_ _ _ I remember just people, lots and lots of tall people,
you know, you're five years old
and you're just packed in this arena.
_ And I just, _ I was so mesmerized by how loud everybody was
and the sort of, where I was raised,
a very working class city, very rural,
very working class people.
So like party hard, work hard, drink hard,
everything was just full on and my dad was like that.
And so it was just a rowdy, raucous, awesome crowd.
I remember this big spotlight going across, you know?
And cause you know, when you're a kid,
you're like, wow, that thing is amazing.
This big beam going across, through all the smoke, right?
Everyone's smoking cigarettes. _
And I _ _ _ _ _ remember the screaming of the crowd.
And then I remember at one point,
_ _ _ my dad's expression, like staring at this guy on stage
in a way I'd never seen him stare at somebody,
like transfixed.
And I'm probably, _ you know,
I'm sure a child psychologist would probably say,
it was my, I wished he'd stared at me like that, right?
You know, like _ I've never gotten that stare.
What's that guy doing up there
to get my dad's [G] attention like that?
So when I got sent this song,
_ it was, the song was already written,
but I didn't really like the verses of the song.
So I asked the writers if I could write my own verses
and, you know, eliminate the ones that they'd written
and just keep the chorus of the song.
And so I sat down to write the verses.
And that's, _ that was the first thing that came out.
Saw the man in black, spotlight in the air,
heard a thousand screams, saw my dad stare.
Feel like I've been running since the day that I was born.
Eagle on my back, Phoenix on my arm.
And then we're off and running into the song. _
Wow.
Were the original lyrics,
were they about a concert as well
or was it a completely different?
No, it was just a completely different scene.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a very different scene.
It just, and I'm not saying it's bad.
He's a great songwriter.
So it's not, it wasn't bad.
It just didn't, it didn't speak to me.
As a matter of fact, I got sent the song
and I listened to it and liked it,
but it didn't, it didn't stick.
And so I passed on the [Am] song.
_ About a _ week later, I woke up very early one morning
singing the chorus of this song.
And I was like, it's a really good chorus.
So I listened to the song a few more times
and I realized it was the verses that was not [G] grabbing me.
For me, just me personally.
And of course, if I'm gonna record a song,
it's just gotta speak to me.
That's all it's just gotta do.
And I think the verses had so much of my truth
in already in the chorus.
The chorus already had so much of my musical truth in there
that I related to that I thought, gosh,
I've just got to, these verses are ready to be _ more,
more of me.
And so I got to the second verse
_ and I just thought about all the people
that had told me I wouldn't amount to anything
or was never gonna make it.
And, you know, so I just wrote,
as anyone ever told you, you'll never amount to anything.
You're just wasting your time chasing the tail of a dragon
kind of [Am] dream.
I'm here to tell you anything can happen in this life
if you've got the [E] heart and [G] the passion
and a God lit fire [N] inside. _
_ _ Because that's what's carried me through all these years
are all those things still, you know?
Okay, but wait, who told Keith Urban
that he is not gonna make it
because I'm like ready to go fight them now, Keith.
Oh, plenty of people.
_ Plenty of people, but you know,
those shine blockers in our life,
those people that come along and just crap on our parade. _
_ My experience has been that I'm really grateful
for those people because they've given me infinite fire
to burn on my whole life, you know?
Because I wanna prove them wrong.
Have you ever gotten to see one of those people
is post proving everyone wrong
and kind of see what their feelings are about you? _ _
Not personally, _ _ you know, I don't know.
But I still burn a lot from that.
And I _ probably still burn on the fuel
of trying to get my dad's attention,
which I'm sure I got _ _ years and years before he passed away,
but I still _ probably, [Am] you know,
and driven [Ab] and driven by that.
So will this song be on, I assume,
like the Speed of Now part two?
_ _ I have no idea. _ _
_ _ This whole thing happened so quickly.
I was here in town in May _ _
_ and that's the song and the rewriting.
And I _ went down and quickly sang on the demo
that they'd sent me.
I just took the vocal off and sang on it.
And then I built some more things on top of the demo.
I sent it to my manager and I said,
I like this song, you know,
we should think about maybe what to do with this
down the track.
And he [N] goes, I think we just put it out now.
And I'm like, _ I literally just put out an album in September
_ and he's like, yeah, but this feels good.
Feels really good.
We should just put it out.
I was like, okay.
So I, you know, I don't know if it's part of the next record
or just a standalone piece.
I just know it's-
Dirk's Bentley told us one time that that's called,
he calls that his catch and release.
That if he hears a hit-
He stole that from me.
Thank you, Dirk. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Catch a hit and release it, baby.
_ _ It's called sport recording.
Catch and release.
Do you already have anything done
for the Speed of Now part two?
Yeah, I mean, I probably _ do.
You know, I _ haven't recorded anything _ thinking of,
oh, this is for that.
I just, you know, I think I just, I record songs
and before I know it, I've accumulated a lot of songs
and then _ _ I'll look to see if there's a way
for those to go together to be an album.
But honestly, _ you know, honestly, Evan,
I don't even know _ about albums for me right now.
I'm, _ _ I love writing and recording new music.
And if it's a song or if it's two or if it's six
or if it's 13, _ _ it comes when it comes.
And I just as soon to get it out, honestly,
just keep it coming, you know.
I saw you're returning to television,
the Australian version of The Voice.
Yeah.
_ So it's been five years since you left American Idol.
Do you miss it?
_ _ _ _ I loved being around,
_ I love being in that mentoring _ _ environment.
It's really cool.
I really liked that.
And that, The Voice thing in Australia
was just serendipitous because we had gone down
to shoot a project that my wife was doing
called Nine Perfect Strangers
and was being filmed in Australia.
And when that finished _ _ filming at the end of last year,
we were coming back to Nashville
_ and the producers of The Voice called and said,
hey, we heard you're here in the country.
Would you want to be a coach on The Voice?
And I'm like, when?
And they went, _ like February, March, April.
And I'm like, early April?
Cause I'm hosting the ACMs in April.
And they're like, yeah, yeah,
we can get it done before you have to go back and do that.
So it was just amazing serendipitous timing to get to do it.
_ That's fantastic, man.
Thank you so much for chatting with us.
We love talking to you, Keith.
Oh, my pleasure, Amber.
Good to talk to you.
It's always good.
You too, Evan.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah, yeah.
It's _ me and you, Keith.
Yeah, Amber does it all.
Got it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Let's talk Wild Hearts, man.
_ You sing in the song about your first concert experience ever
was with your dad at a, or with your dad
was at a Johnny Cash show.
Was it emotional reliving those memories
while recording this song?
And will it be while playing it live?
Yeah, but it's a good emotional, you know?
_ _ That concert has, for whatever reasons,
I guess it's, you know, everybody's first concert
that always stays with you through your life, you know?
You get asked at different situations,
different people that you meet in your life,
what was your first concert, you know?
So _ that was a profound first concert for anybody,
let alone a five-year-old, to go and see Johnny Cash.
Yeah. _ _
_ _ That's the loudest, drunkest group of people
I had ever been around. _ _
_ And it was exciting, you know?
I remember little bits and pieces of that concert. _
_ _ _ I remember just people, lots and lots of tall people,
you know, you're five years old
and you're just packed in this arena.
_ And I just, _ I was so mesmerized by how loud everybody was
and the sort of, where I was raised,
a very working class city, very rural,
very working class people.
So like party hard, work hard, drink hard,
everything was just full on and my dad was like that.
And so it was just a rowdy, raucous, awesome crowd.
I remember this big spotlight going across, you know?
And cause you know, when you're a kid,
you're like, wow, that thing is amazing.
This big beam going across, through all the smoke, right?
Everyone's smoking cigarettes. _
And I _ _ _ _ _ remember the screaming of the crowd.
And then I remember at one point,
_ _ _ my dad's expression, like staring at this guy on stage
in a way I'd never seen him stare at somebody,
like transfixed.
And I'm probably, _ you know,
I'm sure a child psychologist would probably say,
it was my, I wished he'd stared at me like that, right?
You know, like _ I've never gotten that stare.
What's that guy doing up there
to get my dad's [G] attention like that?
So when I got sent this song,
_ it was, the song was already written,
but I didn't really like the verses of the song.
So I asked the writers if I could write my own verses
and, you know, eliminate the ones that they'd written
and just keep the chorus of the song.
And so I sat down to write the verses.
And that's, _ that was the first thing that came out.
Saw the man in black, spotlight in the air,
heard a thousand screams, saw my dad stare.
Feel like I've been running since the day that I was born.
Eagle on my back, Phoenix on my arm.
And then we're off and running into the song. _
Wow.
Were the original lyrics,
were they about a concert as well
or was it a completely different?
No, it was just a completely different scene.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a very different scene.
It just, and I'm not saying it's bad.
He's a great songwriter.
So it's not, it wasn't bad.
It just didn't, it didn't speak to me.
As a matter of fact, I got sent the song
and I listened to it and liked it,
but it didn't, it didn't stick.
And so I passed on the [Am] song.
_ About a _ week later, I woke up very early one morning
singing the chorus of this song.
And I was like, it's a really good chorus.
So I listened to the song a few more times
and I realized it was the verses that was not [G] grabbing me.
For me, just me personally.
And of course, if I'm gonna record a song,
it's just gotta speak to me.
That's all it's just gotta do.
And I think the verses had so much of my truth
in already in the chorus.
The chorus already had so much of my musical truth in there
that I related to that I thought, gosh,
I've just got to, these verses are ready to be _ more,
more of me.
And so I got to the second verse
_ and I just thought about all the people
that had told me I wouldn't amount to anything
or was never gonna make it.
And, you know, so I just wrote,
as anyone ever told you, you'll never amount to anything.
You're just wasting your time chasing the tail of a dragon
kind of [Am] dream.
I'm here to tell you anything can happen in this life
if you've got the [E] heart and [G] the passion
and a God lit fire [N] inside. _
_ _ Because that's what's carried me through all these years
are all those things still, you know?
Okay, but wait, who told Keith Urban
that he is not gonna make it
because I'm like ready to go fight them now, Keith.
Oh, plenty of people.
_ Plenty of people, but you know,
those shine blockers in our life,
those people that come along and just crap on our parade. _
_ My experience has been that I'm really grateful
for those people because they've given me infinite fire
to burn on my whole life, you know?
Because I wanna prove them wrong.
Have you ever gotten to see one of those people
is post proving everyone wrong
and kind of see what their feelings are about you? _ _
Not personally, _ _ you know, I don't know.
But I still burn a lot from that.
And I _ probably still burn on the fuel
of trying to get my dad's attention,
which I'm sure I got _ _ years and years before he passed away,
but I still _ probably, [Am] you know,
and driven [Ab] and driven by that.
So will this song be on, I assume,
like the Speed of Now part two?
_ _ I have no idea. _ _
_ _ This whole thing happened so quickly.
I was here in town in May _ _
_ and that's the song and the rewriting.
And I _ went down and quickly sang on the demo
that they'd sent me.
I just took the vocal off and sang on it.
And then I built some more things on top of the demo.
I sent it to my manager and I said,
I like this song, you know,
we should think about maybe what to do with this
down the track.
And he [N] goes, I think we just put it out now.
And I'm like, _ I literally just put out an album in September
_ and he's like, yeah, but this feels good.
Feels really good.
We should just put it out.
I was like, okay.
So I, you know, I don't know if it's part of the next record
or just a standalone piece.
I just know it's-
Dirk's Bentley told us one time that that's called,
he calls that his catch and release.
That if he hears a hit-
He stole that from me.
Thank you, Dirk. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Catch a hit and release it, baby.
_ _ It's called sport recording.
Catch and release.
Do you already have anything done
for the Speed of Now part two?
Yeah, I mean, I probably _ do.
You know, I _ haven't recorded anything _ thinking of,
oh, this is for that.
I just, you know, I think I just, I record songs
and before I know it, I've accumulated a lot of songs
and then _ _ I'll look to see if there's a way
for those to go together to be an album.
But honestly, _ you know, honestly, Evan,
I don't even know _ about albums for me right now.
I'm, _ _ I love writing and recording new music.
And if it's a song or if it's two or if it's six
or if it's 13, _ _ it comes when it comes.
And I just as soon to get it out, honestly,
just keep it coming, you know.
I saw you're returning to television,
the Australian version of The Voice.
Yeah.
_ So it's been five years since you left American Idol.
Do you miss it?
_ _ _ _ I loved being around,
_ I love being in that mentoring _ _ environment.
It's really cool.
I really liked that.
And that, The Voice thing in Australia
was just serendipitous because we had gone down
to shoot a project that my wife was doing
called Nine Perfect Strangers
and was being filmed in Australia.
And when that finished _ _ filming at the end of last year,
we were coming back to Nashville
_ and the producers of The Voice called and said,
hey, we heard you're here in the country.
Would you want to be a coach on The Voice?
And I'm like, when?
And they went, _ like February, March, April.
And I'm like, early April?
Cause I'm hosting the ACMs in April.
And they're like, yeah, yeah,
we can get it done before you have to go back and do that.
So it was just amazing serendipitous timing to get to do it.
_ That's fantastic, man.
Thank you so much for chatting with us.
We love talking to you, Keith.
Oh, my pleasure, Amber.
Good to talk to you.
It's always good.
You too, Evan.
Yeah, it's all good.
Yeah, yeah.
It's _ me and you, Keith.
Yeah, Amber does it all.
Got it. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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