{"id":103971,"date":"2025-05-01T05:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=103971"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:15:03","slug":"keith-urban-isnt-worried-about-country-music-evolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/keith-urban-isnt-worried-about-country-music-evolving\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Isn&#8217;t Worried About Country Music Evolving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Urban isn&#8217;t worried about how country music is evolving.<\/p>\n<p>He just sat down for an interview with &#8220;MuchMusic&#8221;, and they asked how he feels about &#8220;the current state of country&#8221; in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>He said he thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;great,&#8221; and noted that changing things up isn&#8217;t really a new trend. Country has always been evolving, even way back in the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>He used Patsy Cline as an example. He said &#8220;prior to her, it was all fiddles and pedal steel.&#8221; But she swapped out some of those &#8220;classic&#8221; sounds for things like piano, strings, and backing vocals.<\/p>\n<p>He said the &#8220;purists were outraged&#8221; then, just like they are now. So, changing things up . . . and hearing people complain about it . . . isn&#8217;t exactly new territory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/edxvc6zlxQk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Urban Isn&#8217;t Worried About Country Music Evolving: &#8220;It&#8217;s Always Been This Way&#8221;","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":102883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[3142,485,10902,1466],"class_list":["post-103971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-country-music","tag-keith-urban","tag-muchmusic","tag-patsy-cline"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:54:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/05\/keith-urban-isnt-worried-about-country-music-evolving\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}