Keith Urban just released his much-anticipated album, Fuse, this week, and the collection has not one, but two duets. One is Keith’s new single, “We Were Us,” a duet with Miranda Lambert, and the other is “Raise ‘Em Up,” a cool collaboration with his pal, Eric Church.

Keith considers Eric’s most recent album, Chief, one of his favorite records, from top to bottom and the two share a mutual love of musical finds. “We became friends and our families and wives would go and have dinner. He would be turning me on to new music and I’d tell him, ‘You gotta listen to ‘Bankrupt’ by Dr. Hook!’,” says Keith” “We’re trying to hip each other with records we love that probably the other guy hasn’t heard, so that banter started sort of started happening pretty regularly.”
 
The Grammy winner just finished up his media rounds, but he’s back on the road with his Light the Fuse 2013 Tour in Cleveland on Thursday night (September 12th) and Pittsburgh on Friday (September 13th).

Keith Urban (Raise ‘Em Up-Church) 1 OC: …sang on it. :52
“‘Chief’ is one of my favorite records of the last, easily the last 10 years, as a whole. From top to bottom, it’s just a great, great record. So, we became friends and our families and wives would go and have dinner. He would be turning me on to new music and I’d tell him, ‘You gotta listen to ‘Bankrupt’ by Dr. Hook!’ We’re trying to hip each other with records we love that probably the other guy hasn’t heard, so that banter started sort of started happening pretty regularly. I thought I’d really like to do something with Eric on the record if I find the right song. The song called ‘Raise ‘Em Up’ came along, and it wasn’t written as a duet, but it just struck me as the perfect song. There’s a particular theme, really, in the song, particularly in the second verse that I felt was just perfect for Eric. I was really happy that he came and sang on it.”