Keith Urban On The Influence Of Attending A Johnny Cash Concert

Keith Urban didn’t originally have a hand in writing his latest single, “Wild Hearts,” and, in fact, he turned down the opportunity to record it.

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.

“The 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’ve never seen my dad look at me like that. And so that probably was the beginning of my journey.”

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This post was written by Cheryl Johnstone