Keith Urban didn’t originally have a hand in writing his latest single, \u201cWild Hearts,\u201d and, in fact, he turned down the opportunity to record it.<\/p>\n
Days later, he couldn’t get the chorus out of his head, but since he had a hard time connecting with the verses, he reached out to the song’s writers — Brad Tursi of Old Dominion, Jennifer Wayne of Runaway June and Eric Paslay — and asked if he could personalize the song with a true-life memory of attending a Johnny Cash concert with his dad when he was just five years old.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe things I remembered mostly about it were, of course, this guy up on stage. I remember this white-hot spotlight coming all the way from the back of the room. It was huge and I remember the screaming of this crowd. And then I remember looking up at my dad and seeing the way that he looked at this person on stage, and probably subconsciously I probably thought I\u2019ve never seen my dad look at me like that. And so that probably was the beginning of my journey.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n