Ripcord

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Growing up in the Queensland town of Caboolture, Keith Urban’s musical education consisted of his dad’s traditional country albums and Top 40 radio. The latter’s influence on his music has become more pronounced over the year, as his ninth studio album attest. “Sun Don’t Let Me Down”, for example, may feature upbeat banjo but it also boasts typically funky guitar from Chic legend Nile Rodgers and, even less predictably, a rap courtesy of Pitbull. “Blue Ain’t Your Color” features programmed drum, while creeping electronic pulses form the foundation of “Your Body”, and “The Fighter”—a song inspired by the early days of Urban’s marriage to Nicole Kidman, with Carrie Underwood on vocals—incorporates sampled drums and melodic stabs of synth. .

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