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KEITH URBAN WRAPS HIS “GRAFFITI U WORLD TOUR” THIS WEEKEND.

KEITH URBAN WRAPS HIS “GRAFFITI U WORLD TOUR” THIS WEEKEND.
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Keith Urban

Keith Urban wraps the U-S leg of his Graffiti U World Tour this week with shows in Little Rock on Thursday (November 1st), New Orleans on Friday (November 2nd) and Dallas on Saturday (November 3rd).

“It’s a conundrum because I wanna play what the audience wants to hear obviously, and there’s a mix of people in the audience. You’ve always got new people that have never seen us live and they’re hoping that you do ‘X’ song, whatever that might be. It could be ‘Kiss a Girl.It could be ‘Sweet Thing.’ It could be ‘You’ll Think of Me.’ It could be ‘Days Go By.’ There’s just so many songs, and then you’ve got people who’ve seen us hundreds and hundreds of times who are like, ‘Oh, please don’t do that song again. We’ve got to have heard that a million times. We wanna hear more of the new ones,’” says Keith. “So, it’s a beautiful challenge that I feel very blessed to have. And at the end of the day I’ll put together a setlist that feels energy and emotion and thematically and musically and every other way right from top to bottom, covering as much as we can without playing for four hours. It’s also part of the reason we didn’t take any other acts on the tour. We just took Kelsea and us. That gave us more time to play.”

Keith, who is making his way up the country charts with “Never Coming Down,” is nominated for several CMA Awards, including Entertainer, Male Vocalist and Album of the Year (for Graffiti U). The 52nd Annual CMA Awards, which will broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 14th at 8pm ET/PT on ABC.

Audio / Before launching his Graffiti U World Tour, Keith Urban explained trying to put together a setlist for his shows.

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“It’s a conundrum because I wanna play what the audience wants to hear obviously, and there’s a mix of people in the audience. You’ve always got new people that have never seen us live and they’re hoping that you do ‘X’ song, whatever that might be. It could be ‘Kiss a Girl.It could be ‘Sweet Thing.’ It could be ‘You’ll Think of Me.’ It could be ‘Days Go By.’ There’s just so many songs, and then you’ve got people who’ve seen us hundreds and hundreds of times who are like, ‘Oh, please don’t do that song again. We’ve got to have heard that a million times. We wanna hear more of the new ones.’ So, it’s a beautiful challenge that I feel very blessed to have. And at the end of the day I’ll put together a setlist that feels energy and emotion and thematically and musically and every other way right from top to bottom, covering as much as we can without playing for four hours. It’s also part of the reason we didn’t take any other acts on the tour. We just took Kelsea and us. That gave us more time to play.”