Vol. 5 No. 2, February 2008
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Country Gold
Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood perform 7:30 p.m. February 15 at Boardwalk Hall. Tickets are $45, $65, $95 and $125.
Talk about a sure bet. The biggest show this month belongs to country superstars Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood, who perform on one bill at Boardwalk Hall February 15.
Headlining on the big night is Urban, the superstar country performer who’s come a long way since the Country Music Association honored him with its Horizon Award in 2001, the same year the Academy of Country Music named him Top New Male Vocalist.
Nearly seven years and more than 10 million albums sold later, Urban has garnered many more accolades, being the only Horizon winner to win the CMA’s Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist of the Year (he captured the latter three times).
Urban is on the road to plug Keith Urban Greatest Hits: 18 Kids, a compilation that features seven No. 1 smashes and seven other Top 5 hits. Expect Urban to play the huge songs that earned him the right to headline arenas around the country, along with two new ones written for the package: a remake of “Got It Right This Time (The Celebration)” and his take on Steve Forbert’s 1979 gem “Romeo’s Tune.”
Urban’s popularity seems to have no bounds. He’s one of the few country stars to ever appear on Saturday Night Live, and he is extremely involved in charitable endeavors.
As for Underwood, she seems to be on a path to greatness that could rival Urban’s. The former American Idol winner is easily the most successful graduate from the Fox reality series, fulfilling Idol judge Simon Cowell’s prediction that she would not only win, but outsell all of the show’s previous winners.
Underwood’s debut album Some Hearts was the best-selling female country album of 2005, 2006 and 2007, hitting No. 1 with every single she released, a remarkable achievement. She also won two Grammy awards among a slew of other accolades. Her latest release, Carnival Ride, is anything but a sophomore slump as she shows her increasing strength as a vocalist and newfound maturity in her lyrics. She actually co-wrote four of the songs on the new CD, including “All-American Girl,” “Crazy Dreams” and the first single, “So Small.”
