Keith Urban is proud to be a part of what he calls the \u201ctribe\u201d of country music artists in Nashville but fears things are changing.<\/p>\n
In a recent interview, he talked about his perceived division of that community, something he feels needs to be remedied.<\/p>\n
He said it\u2019s like it\u2019s being “ripped apart.” He explained that \u201ckeeping it strong and keeping it together is really important.”<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t mention specifics, but he stressed the importance of having the support of friends and family during hard times.<\/p>\n
Keith is a big supporter among his colleagues, he recently did something rare among artists, he attended and promoted the CMA Awards, despite not being nominated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Urban is proud to be a part of what he calls the \u201ctribe\u201d of country music artists in Nashville but fears things are changing.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":22591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-22744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-keith-urban"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:24:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/01\/keith-urban-thinks-country-music-is-becoming-divided\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22745,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22744\/revisions\/22745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}