A Change of Direction for Keith Urban with New Producers and Writers
12 years ago Liv Carter 12
Keith Urban is having fun.
“We can’t keep remaking the same record,” he told The Tennessean, and so he is setting off on a new course, working with a new producer and getting creative with songwriters he has not worked with before.
Humans are creatures of habit. It is very tempting to not make any changes when things are going well. Your familiar co-writers already know how you like to work, and your familiar producer already knows what sound you are looking for. The problem is that the records you make will also be, well, familiar.
Urban’s last few releases came from deep inside his comfort zone. By heading into uncharted waters, he is looking to create music of a new kind. So far, it seems to be the right course, he said: “I wanted to have everything around me be totally unfamiliar to me and I think it’s great in a sense that all sorts of stuff is coming out that I normally haven’t done before.”
Excellent. For a few years now, I have been hoping for a shake up of Team Urban; a wish also expressed in the review of 2010’s Get Closer. Exit producer Dann Huff, enter producer Jay Joyce, one of the most creative of his kind. Joyce is responsible for Eric Church‘s solid rock sound and is an exciting choice to help steer Keith Urban’s new project.
New songwriters were brought on board as well. Along with Joyce, the other new writers Urban has been getting creative with include Jeremy Spillman and Jaren Johnston, who is one of my favorite songwriters. The new partnerships allowed Urban to delve into his own journey over the last six years, and resulted in at least one song detailing his personal transition.
The new disc should be hitting stores in the first half of 2013.
I very much look forward to it. How about you?
Liv Carter
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
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