- Days Go By
- Better Life
- Making Memories of Us
- God's Been Good to Me
- The Hard Way
- You're My Better Half
- I Could Fly
- Tonight I Wanna Cry
- She's Gotta Be
- Nobody Drinks Alone
- Country Comfort
- Live to Love Another Day
- These Are the Days
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Coming off the double-platinum success of 2002's Golden Road, Aussie country rocker Keith Urban builds on a winning formula with Be Here, one of the year's strongest mainstream offerings. Well-turned original songs, a couple of impressive covers, tight band work, expressive singing, and, of course, some exemplary guitar pickin' on Urban's part are the essential components here, and when they all mesh it's a beautiful thing. They do just that on "You're My Better Half," a sizzling, country-tinged rocker that finds Urban not only singing the praises of his beloved but stepping out with a joyous, soaring guitar solo. In a buoyant arrangement suited to a song titled "I Could Fly," Urban exults in the strengthening power of true love, backed by a funky little herky-jerky groove and a wailing slide guitar solo that jets toward the stratosphere. He conjures a seductive atmosphere, via twangy guitar playing and a heartfelt vocal, on a cover of Rodney Crowell's brilliant love song "Making Memories of Us" (hear the original version on the Notorious Cherry Bombs' debut). Heartbreak gets more than a fair hearing too, on Urban's wrenching, intimate piano ballad "Tonight I Wanna Cry," on which he touches some still-raw nerves in his account of a relationship's demise, his tear-stained vocal sounding close to the bone. He more than does justice to Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Country Comfort" -- one of the strongest songs in EJ's early canon -- on which his boisterous vocal is set against swirling pedal steel lines and snarling guitar punctuations. Platinum shortage in America? Blame Keith Urban. He's gonna be stockpiling it soon.
Product Details
Release Date: | 09/21/2004 |
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Label: | Liberty |
UPC: | 0724357748926 |
catalogNumber: | 77489 |
Rank: | 13412 |
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Album Credits
Performance Credits
Keith Urban Primary Artist,Acoustic Guitar,Banjo,Mandolin,Electric Guitar,Vocals,Background Vocals,Hand Clapping,Slide Guitar,E-bow,Soloist,Guitar (12 String Acoustic),Vocal HarmonyBruce Dukov Violin
Eric Darken Percussion
Charlie Bisharat Violin
Bruce Bouton Dobro,Steel Guitar
Paul Buckmaster Conductor
Denyse Buffum Viola
Paul Bushnell Bass,Bass Guitar
Matt Chamberlain Percussion,Drums
Larry Corbett Cello
Armen Garabedian Violin
Berj Garabedian Violin
Endre Granat Violin
Paula Hochhalter Cello
Dann Huff Mandolin,Electric Guitar,Guitar (12 String Acoustic)
Roland Kato Viola
Peter Kent Violin
Steven King Accordion
Chris McHugh Percussion,Drums
Steve Nathan Piano
Jimmie Lee Sloas Bass,Bass Guitar
Josefina Vergara Violin
Evan Wilson Viola
Jonathan Yudkin Fiddle,Cello
Jimmy Nichols Piano,Keyboards,Synthesizer Strings
Russell Terrell Background Vocals
Suzie Katayama Cello
Tim Akers Organ,Piano,Accordion,Keyboards,Hammond Organ
Bob Peterson Violin
Chris Thile Mandolin
Natalie Leggett Violin
Rudy Stein Cello
Tom Bukovac Acoustic Guitar,Electric Guitar,Slide Guitar,wah wah guitar
Dan Smith Cello
Robert Matsuda Violin
Steve Richards Cello
Charles Stegeman Violin
Rachel Stegeman Violin
Daniel Smith Cello
Matthew Funes Viola
Sarah Parkins Violin
Technical Credits
Matraca Berg ComposerRodney Crowell Composer
Elton John Composer
Darrell Brown Composer
Paul Buckmaster Arranger,String Arrangements
Steve Churchyard Engineer
Betsy Cook Management
Mark Hagen Engineer
Dann Huff Producer,Audio Production
Richard Marx Composer
Justin Niebank Engineer
Monty Powell Composer
Bernie Taupin Composer
Suzie Katayama Orchestral Coordinator
John Shanks Composer
Gordie Sampson Composer
Keith Urban Composer,Producer,Audio Production
Jim Collins Composer
Rivers Rutherford Composer
Brady Barnett Engineer
Darin Murphy Booking
Gary Borman Management
Joanna Carter Art Direction
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