On Friday (September 20), Keith Urban released his long-awaited new album High. The release comes four years after he dropped The Speed of Now Part 1 and he and his fans are excited about the new music being in the world. To celebrate, Urban has performed several pop-up shows featuring songs from the new album.
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Thursday night (September 19), Urban played a surprise show on Lower Broadway to celebrate the forthcoming release. He announced the show just hours before it started and fans immediately took notice. Music Row reports that nearly 25,000 fans showed up to witness the free concert. During the 45-minute set, he played songs from High for the first time.
The Nashville pop-up show was just one of many surprise concerts Urban played to celebrate the new album. He surprised crowds in Sydney, Brisbane, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Additionally, he performed pop-up shows at the BNA Airport in Nashville and rocked a Buck-ee’s parking lot in Alabama. In short, he was very busy before the release of High.
Keith Urban on High
It took Keith Urban four years to release High because he wanted it to be perfect. He was so picky about how this album would sound that he scrapped almost an entire finished project. He talked about the arduous process in an interview with People.
“I scrapped another album. I finished an album in early 2023, 13 tracks, and decided to scrap pretty much the whole thing,” he told the publication. “Sometimes, if I don’t know what to do, I’ll start figuring out what I don’t want to do,” he explained. “I made the record that I didn’t want to make apparently to figure out which one I did want to make,” he added.
He kept four songs from the original project and used them as the foundation for High. “It was not a good time for me but I just stayed the course and did what was flowing,” he said. “Then this record got finished, and now I see it in hindsight and go, ‘I’m so glad that I followed it,” he added.
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