Track Listing 1. Days Go By 2. Better Life 3. Making Memories of Us 4. God's Been Good to Me 5. Hard Way, The 6. You're My Better Half 7. I Could Fly 8. Tonight I Wanna Cry 9. She's Gotta Be 10. Nobody Drinks Alone 11. Country Comfort 12. Live to Love Another Day 13. These Are the Days
| Details | | Producer: | Dan Huff, Keith Urban | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel include: Keith Urban (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, E-bow, banjo); Tom Bukovac (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Dan Huff (acoustic 12-string guitar); Tim Akers (accordion, piano, keyboards); Jimmie Lee Sloas, Paul Bushnell (bass guitar); Chris McHugh, Matt Chamberlain (drums, percussion); Eric Darken (percussion); Russell Terrell (background vocals). Recording information: Capitol Records, Hollywood, California; The Sound Kitchen, Franklin, Tennessee. With his US debut album, GOLDEN ROAD, Keith Urban confounded critics' expectations of what a New Zealand-born country singer could do, delivering a record that not only contained four Number One hits and remained on the charts for more than 100 weeks, but was an undeniably substantial artistic achievement. Urban cites legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb (author of Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" and "Galveston"), as an influence, and Urban's music often recalls not only Nashville mavericks Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, and Radney Foster, but the introspective stylings of 1970s singer/songwriters Jackson Browne and Dan Fogelberg. That said, BE HERE's smooth California folk-rock feel doesn't obscure the album's firm country roots. "God's Been Good to Me" lays down a tough, Waylon Jennings-worthy beat bolstered by hot banjo picking, while "Live to Love Another Day" is all backwoods twang and rural imagery. Urban's true forte, however, is the weepy ballad, and "Making Memories of Us" (penned by Crowell) and " Nobody Drinks Alone" are among the most poignant he's recorded.
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