Keith Urban is preparing to launch his upcoming ripCord World Tour Thursday (June 2nd) in Kansas City, Missouri, and he’s planning on a heavy dose of hits and new songs from his latest album, Ripcord.
“I wanted to obviously bring in some of the older songs that we haven’t done in a while, because we retire a lot of songs from certain tours, but I’m always aware that X-amount of people want to hear some of those songs. So, I wanted to sort of see if there was a way we could give them a fresh coat of paint without changing them so much, because I’m also respectful of people wanting to be able to sing along,” says Keith. “Sometimes [when] I go see artists play and when they do some of their older hits, they sing them in a way in which it seems like they’re obligated to do and they don’t want to do it and that sort of thing, and then they start changing the melody and no one can sing along. So, I’ve never been a fan of that, but also recognize that for us we’ve done the song a million times, so how can we change it so it’s fresh and new for us, but not too different for everybody out front? Hopefully, we’ve done that with things like ‘[Where the] Blacktop [Ends]’ by bringing in the Ralph Stanley sample and a few things like that.”
Keith’s ripCord World Tour, which also features Brett Eldredge and Maren Morris, launches Thursday (June 2nd) in Kansas City, Missouri.
Audio / Keith Urban talks about adding in some of his older songs into his set.
DownloadKeith Urban (bringing new and old songs together for the tour) OC: …things like that. :51
“I wanted to obviously bring in some of the older songs that we haven’t done in a while, because we retire a lot of songs from certain tours, but I’m always aware that X-amount of people want to hear some of those songs. So, I wanted to sort of see if there was a way we could give them a fresh coat of paint without changing them so much, because I’m also respectful of people wanting to be able to sing along and not have them, I find sometimes [when] I go see artists play and when they do some of their older hits, they sing them in a way in which it seems like they’re obligated to do and they don’t want to do it and that sort of thing, and then they start changing the melody and no one can sing along. So, I’ve never been a fan of that, but also recognize that for us we’ve done the song a million times, so how can we change it so it’s fresh and new for us, but not too different for everybody out front? Hopefully, we’ve done that with things like ‘[Where the] Blacktop [Ends]’ by bringing in the Ralph Stanley sample and a few things like that.”
