Keith Urban’s Ripcord album has debuted at the top of the country album chart. The record, which was released May 6th, sold 106,000 copies to land at No. 1 on the country chart.
A few of the songs on the album changed from how they were written or recorded when he first started the recording process. “It’s always an unknown thing for me. Get in the studio and a lot of it’s born, of course the song first and foremost, what the song wants, if the song’s a mannequin and how are we going to dress it. You can overdo, you can underdo it and it can change the song drastically, too,” says Keith. “I find recording a funny thing because you’re capturing a song in a particular form, but that is not mean to be the be all and end all of that song. That’s just one form of it… But for me getting in the studio is always, it’s fun. It’s like a sandbox for me. It has its share of frustration and all of it, but it has unlimited potential. That’s what excites me a lot.”
Ripcord features his current single, “Wasted Time,” as well as two previous chart-toppers, “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16” and “Break on Me.”
Keith is preparing to hit the road on his ripcord World Tour 2016 June 2nd in Kansas City, Missouri. He’s taking Brett Eldredge and Maren Morris along for the ride.
Audio / Keith Urban says he enjoys being in the studio.
DownloadKeith Urban (in the studio) OC: …me a lot. :57
“It’s always an unknown thing for me. Get in the studio and a lot of it’s born, of course the song first and foremost, what the song wants, if the song’s a mannequin and how are we going to dress it? You can overdo, you can underdo it and it can change the song drastically, too. It’s a funny thing with, I find recording a funny thing because you’re capturing a song in a particular form, but that is not mean to be the be all and end all of that song. That’s just one form of it. It will be like meeting someone one day in their life and thinking that you’ve met them for what they are their entire life. It’s just, no, that was just one day. You only met them one day and recorded songs live on forever as just that one day’s representation of the song. But for me getting in the studio is always, it’s fun. It’s like a sandbox for me. It has its share of frustration and all of it, but it has unlimited potential. That’s what excites me a lot.”
Audio / Keith Urban talks about releasing three singles before his new album, Ripcord, came out.
DownloadKeith Urban (releasing 3 singles before album) OC: …the puzzle. :21
“I’ve never had that happen in my life where we’ve got the third single out before the album comes out. But what those two songs did, what ‘John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16’ did and what ‘Break on Me’ did was it helped me see what the record was trying to be. So, when I was narrowing all the songs down to get to 13, it helped a lot. For me, ‘Wasted Time’ was the last missing piece of the puzzle.”
