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Golden Road (2002)

Where the lyrics of Golden Road take you, and where it was really made.

Golden Road marks where Dann Huff began producing Keith Urban, a run that has covered every album since.

Key places

Sound Kitchen Studios: recording studio (2002)

Recording site Sound Kitchen — Discogs credits Sound Kitchen as a recording studio for Golden Road. The point marks the studio listed for recording. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Golden Road: third studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban
• Released 8 October 2002 via Capitol Records Nashville
• Four singles: "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", "You'll Think of Me"
• All four singles reached the US Billboard Hot Country Songs Top 10
• Three of them reached number one; "Raining on Sunday" peaked at number three
• First Urban album produced by Dann Huff, who has produced all of his albums since

Background

• "Jeans On" is a cover of a Lord David Dundas song
• "You Look Good in My Shirt" was first slated to be the album's fifth single
• Capitol Nashville instead chose to release a single from a new album
• Without a single release, the song charted at number 60 from unsolicited airplay as an album cut
• Urban re-recorded the song in 2008 for the compilation Greatest Hits: 18 Kids, and that version was a number-one single

Recording

• Urban co-produced tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 11 with Dann Huff, and produced the rest alone
• Discogs credits Sound Kitchen as a recording studio
• Emerald Entertainment, Hound's Ear Studio and Blueberry Hill are also listed as recording locations
• Mixing is credited to Starstruck Studios, Sound Stage Studios and The Castle Recording Studios
• Mastering is credited to The Mastering Lab
• Musicians on the album include Tom Bukovac, Matt Chamberlain, Dan Dugmore, Chris McHugh and Jimmie Lee Sloas

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Keith Lionel Urban, born 26 October 1967 in Whangārei, New Zealand, moved to Caboolture, Queensland, Australia at age two.
• Took up the guitar at age six; influenced by country music from his parents and by guitarists Mark Knopfler and Lindsey Buckingham.
• Won the Star Maker talent quest at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1990, leading to a contract with EMI Music Australia.

Career

• Self-titled debut album released in Australia in 1991; moved to Nashville in 1992.
• Formed the band The Ranch in 1995; their self-titled album was released on Capitol Nashville in 1997.
• US solo debut in 1999 with a second self-titled album; "But for the Grace of God" became his first US country number one.
• Golden Road (2002) and Be Here (2004) followed; Be Here became his best-selling album, certified 4× Platinum.
• Won Grammy Awards for "You'll Think of Me" and "Stupid Boy".
• Has charted 37 singles on the US Hot Country Songs chart, 18 of them number one.
• Served as a judge on American Idol and a coach on The Voice Australia.
• Appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2020.

Members

• Solo artist; founded The Ranch as a backing band with drummer Peter Clarke and bassist Jerry Flowers.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Debuted at number eleven on the US Billboard 200
• Debuted at number two on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart
• Sold 66,500 copies in its first week
• Four singles all reached the US Billboard Hot Country Songs Top 10
• Three of those singles reached number one; "Raining on Sunday" peaked at number three

Records

• As of September 2004, sold 1.8 million copies in the US
• Certified triple platinum by the RIAA on 22 September 2005, for sales of over three million copies in the United States
• The 2008 re-recording of "You Look Good in My Shirt" was a number-one single
• Charted at number 60 from unsolicited airplay as an album cut

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• "Raining on Sunday" was first recorded by Radney Foster on his 1998 album See What You Want to See, with a backing vocal by Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish.
• "You Look Good in My Shirt" was first slated as the fifth single, but Capitol Nashville released a single from a new album instead.
• Urban re-recorded "You Look Good in My Shirt" in 2008 for the compilation Greatest Hits: 18 Kids, and that version became a number-one single.
• "Jeans On" is a cover of a Lord David Dundas song.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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