The third string of Keith Urban: The Las Vegas Residency dates at Planet Hollywood comes in the wake of Urban’s newly released EP, Shine, and his induction into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Urban shared the stage with Eric Church and Dolly Parton before an all-star audience of industry peers in Nashville, where a week prior he paid tribute to the late Ronnie Milsap along with Ricky Skaggs, Los Lonely Boys and Kelly Clarkson before the “Smoky Mountain Rain” singer’s final concert.
Urban covered “Out Where the Bright Lights Are Glowing,” a song Milsap sung about country singer Jim Reeves. Whether intentional or not, three artists who achieved crossover success due to arrangements were represented in one song: Reeves expanded the range of instruments drawn on in country music; Milsap brought passionate piano playing front and center in his sound; and Urban’s nuanced embracing of trends in recording technology helped break down barriers between pop and country.
That’s perhaps why Urban is one of the few male artists capable of maintaining a Las Vegas residency (and indeed, he has been packing the house). His career-spanning Bakkt Theater concerts find Urban very much in his prime as he testifies in 2021 single “Wild Hearts”: “I’m here to tell you anything can happen in this life/ If you got that heart and the passion and a God-lit fire inside.”
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