Keith Urban performed his hit single, “Brown Eyes Baby,” live at the 2023 CMT Music Awards. The New Zealand native sang the song outside, in front of a live, energetic crowd.
Urban was grateful to be able to sing one of his favorite song he has ever recorded for the live, televised ceremony in Austin, Texas.
“‘Brown Eyes Baby’ is I think just one of those songs that certainly found a lot of people that relate to it, the same way I relate to it,” Urban told CMT prior to his performance. “And getting to finally put the video out was great. We had a blast making this video. We did it with Carter Smith, who has done ‘Blue Ain’t Your Color’ and a few other videos with me.”
“Brown Eyes Baby” is from a forthcoming new album. The song was written by Morgan Wallen, Josh Thompson, Rodney Clawson and Will Bundy.
“I found that Morgan was a writer on it maybe the day after or thereabouts,” Urban told Everything Nash during a virtual media event last year. “He didn’t sing the demo. I think Josh Thompson, who’s one of the other four writers on the song, sang the demo. But it also made sense. It’s a great song, and Morgan’s a great songwriter. I was just thrilled that he didn’t want to cut it.”
The father of two just announced he added more dates to his Keith Urban: The Las Vegas Residency at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, due to fan demand. It’s a welcome reception for Urban, who at one time thought he would never become a Vegas act.
“I resisted a residency in Vegas for a few years. We got asked to come there quite a few years ago,” Urban tells Billboard. “I just didn’t think I would like it because in my head, it just seemed like the word residency just felt like, ‘Oh, you just doing the same show in the same place night after night after night,’ and that just sounded like an episode of Severance to me. But when we saw the Colosseum, I was ‘Oh my God, I think we’ll have a blast in here.’ I was surprised how much I loved it.”
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