![]() Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and held that position for five weeks. His version also reached number one on the U.S. Urban's rendition was released as the album's third single on 21 March 2005. The third version of this song was recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban on his 2004 album Be Here. One year later, Crowell and Vince Gill recorded the song as former members Crowell's backing band called The Notorious Cherry Bombs, and was featured on their self-titled album. The first version was recorded by American country music artist Tracy Byrd on his 2003 album The Truth About Men. Urban's encore saw him in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey and playing solo piano on REO Speedwagon’s Keep On Loving You and Tonight I Wanna Cry before strapping on his electric guitar for a bit of Bruno Mars’ Locked Out Of Heaven and wandering into the stands for You Look Good In My Shirt and handing off his instrument to an astonished, weeping female fan who triumphantly held it up in the air." Making Memories of Us" is a song written by American country music artist Rodney Crowell that has been recorded by several artists. They even got dragged back on stage to join Urban on You Gonna Fly, along with earlier opening act Brett Eldredge on Kiss a Girl, in two other crowd-pleasing moments. Still, their 50 minute set showed off their vocal agility and versatiltiy as they took on covers by such wide ranging acts as Fleetwood Mac’s The Chain and The Oakridge Boys’ Elvira - plus their own Sober, their Grammy nominated Your Side Of The Bed and Tornado. “It’s almost too cold for that,” joked member Kimberly Schlapman. Married to actress Nicole Kidman, with whom he has two daughters, Urban also payed homage to her during the incredibly romantic Without You which included black and white footage of her and their wedding day.Īmong the two openers for Urban were Grammy nominated act Little Big Town, the vocal harmony foursome who broke through with their big hit Pontoon which extolls the love of motorboatin’ (look it up.) “Thank you so bloody much!”įuse was represented by a half-dozen songs including Somewhere in My Car, Even the Stars Fall 4 You, Cop Car, Good Thing, We Were Us with opener Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild subbing for original duet partner Miranda Lambert, and Little Bit of Everything. ![]() “We have had the best time up here - we always do,” said Urban of his Canadian tour dates that began in Vancouver last week and wrapped up in Toronto on Friday night. There was also a secondary smaller B-stage at the back of the crowd on the floor where Urban performed The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again, Adele’s Rumour Has It, his own Days Got By and Once In A Lifetime with a bit of Loverboy’s Everybody’s Working For The Weekend throw into the latter. ![]() He liked to connect with his fans too as he bent down and shook hands with those at the front during I Told You So, the third song of the night, and took it a step further dragging up three female fans to sit on a lazyboy as he serenaded them with Making Memories of Us on his acoustic guitar. Urban also showed off his underappreciated (at least in some circles) guitar playing during Sweet Thing, with an extended solo as the song came to an exciting close, and Stupid Boy (complete with dry ice-induced smoke.) Then it time for the lights to go down and Urban really kicked the evening off with Long Hot Summer - perfect for a frigid Toronto night - on a large stage dominated by a video screen that split his cute image (and short new hairdo) up into five panels and an illuminated triangular catwalk at the front onto which he occasionally wandered. He began with the lights up in the hockey arena, playing an instrumental on a banjo and backed by his drummer before he was joined, one by one, by his other band members. The 46-year-old country music star, current American Idol judge for a second season in a row, and Grammy performer on Sunday night in L.A., is touring in support of his 2013 album, Fuse, and it didn’t take long for him to ignite the crowd. Keith Urban lit the Fuse alright at the Air Canada Centre on Friday night in front of some 14,000 fans and never really let it go out. ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]()
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