The first song from Keith Urban‘s forthcoming live album is out!  “Long Hot Summer,” along with the video, was filmed during Urban’s current High and Alive World Tour.

“Long Hot Summer,” was first released in 2011, on his Get Closer record. The song was written by Urban and Richard Marx.

“I like to have at least one good summer song on a record,” Urban told The Boot when the song was first released. “I love radio songs, and there are certain songs that I write specifically trying to hear them on the radio or just in the car. That’s the place I usually have in mind when I write. I still love hearing music in a car more than anywhere.”

The new version of “Long Hot Summer” is significantly longer than the original version, thanks to Urban’s guitar solo.

“If you’ve seen us on tour, you already know the guitar solo’s really putting the ‘long’ in ‘Long Hot Summer,'” Urban jokes. “Thank you in advance for entertaining a nearly 7 minute version of a 4:33 song!”

Urban plays “Long Hot Summer” every night on tour, but where in the setlist he plays it might change, since the New Zealand native says the order he plays songs in is always a work in progress.

“It’s a lot of trial and error with setlists for me,” Urban acknowledges. “I agonize over setlists. It’s like a Rubik’s Cube. I spend months and months over setlists, tweaking, coming back to it every couple of days, looking at it. I put a playlist together and Iisten to the songs back-to-back-to-back and just feel the flow from one song into the next – energy-wise, thematically, the key, tempo, everything.

“Does this feel like it should flow out of that? Is the audience gonna be exhausted right about here? This would be a good time for a ballad,” he continues. “This would be a good time to strip it down to an acoustic song and then BOOM right back out of the gate again. Trying to imagine what the live experience is gonna be, and put a setlist together for it … We’ll just keep making changes as the tour unfolds.”

Urban is also far less concerned with if the songs he performs were bit hits, and more concerned with how the song will sound during his live show.

“People don’t have to know every song, they just have to be well placed,” Urban explains. “The energy and the theme have to be suitable for that part of the evening in that playlist. We’re a boombox that needs to be playing the right things at the right time, in the right order for them. Know them, don’t know them isn’t as important as is that the right feeling. We’ll find that balance of choosing our moments to go for a ride. ‘Cause all you’re trying to do is create a really great evening, so they go home and they go, ‘God, that was a lot of fun.’”

Urban’s live album is slated to be released this fall. Find all of Urban’s music and upcoming shows at KeithUrban.com.