Keith Urban dedicated his latest Top 10 single, “Wild Hearts,” to the drifters, dreamers and born to be rock stars. The tune, which he wrote with Brad Tursi of Old Dominion, Eric Paslay and Jennifer Wayne, is quintessential Keith is so many ways, and which finds him singing about some of the people who tried to dash his dreams of being a musician and the first concert his dad took him to, which was the legendary Johnny Cash (aka Man in Black), and that moment changed his life forever.

Saw the man in black
Spotlight in the air
Heard a thousand screams
Saw my daddy stare
Feel like I’ve been runnin’
Since the day that I was born
Eagle on my back
Phoenix on my arm

“The first concert that my dad took my brother and I to was Johnny Cash, and that’s probably the most powerful first image that I have of watching someone perform,” says Keith. “I remember ‘cause it was very rowdy, you know, and I remember it was so noisy and at a certain point the spotlight hit the stage and Johnny walked out to the microphone, had a little chat, got his guitar on and then the entire place went dead silent. And I just remember this big white beam coming across the top of my head up to the stage, and from this roar – massive roar – to dead silence where you could hear a pin drop and this man and his guitar singing, I was just mesmerized.”

Keith is currently across the pond in the U-K playing shows through May 9th.