Keith Urban - Greatest Hits
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Music CD Cover Artist: Keith Urban Edition: Music CD Format: Import CD Release Date: 2007-11-20 Music Label: EMI Europe Generic Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Greatest Hits Album
Free Music Review: Fine if you like pop-country
Hit: 3 Stars
I picked up this album on impulse because I had a copy of the James Taylor MusiCares tribute DVD and I thought Keith Urban did the best cover of any of them. He did "Country Road" with a kind of soulfulness that was very additive, and his solo was inventive and original. But I hadn't heard any of his songs before.
Well of course I'd heard the original Steve Forbert version of "Romeo's Tune" and that kicks the album off. But as the album went on, it became apparent that he's another one of those practitioners of pop-country that more a descendant of 70's arena rock and John Denver than Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. A good practitioner, no doubt. He avoids all the pedal steel and fiddle and vocal twangs that shlockier guys use to remind you that this is country. But this could have easily been on the radio in 1979 and not been considered country. I mean, he would have fallen right in with the Eagles and Jackson Browne.
I thought we didn't get enough of his fine electric guitar work, and while there were a few songs that departed from typical love song sentiment ("Stupid Boy" is a good one), there's too many that don't. These songs were obviously written to be smash hits. Some of the songs have strong momentum... I mean they're good craft, but it wasn't what I was hoping for, which was another Lyle Lovett / Robert Earl Keene / Alison Krauss.
I have to think that all the people who gave this five stars were big Keith Urban fans who think it's great to have all their favorites on one disc.