1999 studio album by Keith Urban
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Keith Urban (also known as Keith Urban II ) is the second studio album by Australian country music artist Keith Urban . It was released on 19 October 1999 via Capitol Nashville . It was nominated at the 2000 ARIA Music Awards for Best Country Album, but lost to Troy Cassar-Daley for Big River.
Before this album, Urban recorded a self-titled album in Australia in 1991 and another in the US as a member of the short-lived band The Ranch . The US album is Urban's breakthrough album, as it produced four singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. In order of release, the singles were "It's a Love Thing " (number 18), "Your Everything " (number 4), "But for the Grace of God " (number 1), and "Where the Blacktop Ends " (number 3). It has sold 980,000 copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan .[ 2]
The track "A Little Luck of Our Own" was originally titled "Luck of Our Own" as first recorded by American singer and songwriter Dale Daniel on her 1993 album of the same name . This is Urban's only album to not be produced by Dann Huff , who has produced all his albums since. While his contemporaries, Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney , started with a neotraditional country sound, Urban had a crossover-friendly country pop sound from the very beginning.
David Angell – violin
Bruce Bouton – pedal steel guitar , pedabro
John Catchings – cello
Steve Conn – accordion
Eric Darken – percussion
David Davidson – violin
Stuart Duncan – fiddle
Tabitha Fair – background vocals
Jerry Flowers – background vocals
Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
Kim Keyes – background vocals
Chris McHugh – drums , drum loops, percussion
Emily Robison – background vocals
Matt Rollings – organ , piano , synthesizer , background vocals
Martie Seidel – background vocals
Keith Urban – banjo , acoustic guitar , electric guitar , electric sitar , slide guitar , lead vocals, background vocals
Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
Kristin Wilkinson – programming, string arrangements, synthesizer programming, viola
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Curtis Young – background vocals
Keith Urban debuted at number 145 on the US Billboard 200 and number 17 on the Top Country Albums . In December 2003, Keith Urban was certified Platinum by the RIAA .
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