Keith Urban’s ‘High’ Album Had A Second Start
Keith Urban’s new album, High, is available now wherever you get your music. He first started working on an album in 2022, but because he felt the album wasn’t quite right, he scrapped most of the album and started over, taking only a few songs to the new project.
Keith told us, “I took this album, the previous album, that had a title and everything, 13 songs, took it in, played it for my inner circle of people, my team, people I trust, in February 2023, and was so excited to play it, and I must have got four or five songs in, and I could feel my own conviction level just deflating about this album.”
He continued, “I said, ‘It’s not it, is it?’ And they’re like, ‘Well, you tell me, it’s your record.’ And I’m like, ‘It’s not, I know it’s not.’ I knew that was gonna take a long time. Sure enough, it took another year of writing and recording. This is the weirdest thing. I’ve made a lot of records. I usually have a very clear idea of what I want to do. And I had that with this other start. And it didn’t pan out. And so I was sort of thrown. I’m like, ‘Well, I don’t know what to do.’ And I know this sounds weird. Some people might think I’m completely loopy.”
He concluded, “But there were several songs that felt like they were saying to me, ‘We don’t belong here, we belong on this other record.’ So take us with you and have faith in us and get back in the studio and write, and you’ll see this new record will happen with us in there, and it will be the record we belong to because we don’t belong with this record.”
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Urban has been making special appearances all over the country as he continues to promote his High album, which came out on September 20. Wearing a High jacket, Keith entered the building surprising many of the employees and riders at Peloton Studios. He then started to sing and gave the people at the studio a concert. (Peloton classes often have a live studio audience, and that was the case with this one.)
Greeting the workout coach, Hannah Corbin, as she peddled along on her Peloton in a live class, Keith’s concert began. He also shouted out to several Peloton riders, including one who had done 5000 workouts.
He posted clips of the show on Instagram. He captioned the video clip, “From now on every class should be a live concert. First ever LIVE Country performance at Peloton Studios.”
He added, “Kick off All for One with @hannahcorbinnyc and @keithurban: On Demand on Thu, Sep 26 @ 8 am ET.”
