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Keith Urban Performs Song Clips For ‘Hall’ Benefit

As reported last week, Keith Urban and Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill will return to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday, December 5, for Urban’s “All for the…

Keith Urban Performs Song Clips For 'Hall' Benefit
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As reported last week, Keith Urban and Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill will return to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday, December 5, for Urban's "All for the Hall" concert.

The concert benefits the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. It will include performances by musical directors Urban and Gill, as well as Kelsea Ballerini, Dierks Bentley, Brooks & Dunn, Jordan Davis, HARDY, Patty Loveless, Trisha Yearwood, and other special guests.

Keith said of the event, "Getting to curate, create, and collaborate on our All for the Hall shows has always been mad fun for me. There's so much love and respect for all the work the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum does, not only from the artists and the industry but the audience too."

He added, "I love that Vince will be there with me again this year – and we have another incredible 'guest list' and always some surprises too!"

In honor of the coming event, Urban has been posting himself in his home singing some of the songs artists joining him for the event have made famous. In the first post on Instagram, Keith sits on his couch with a guitar, Trisha Yearwood's "The Song Remembers When." He wrote, "Our theme for this year's All For The Hall is 'The Song Remembers When' - a song written by Hugh Prestwood and recorded by the incomparable @trishayearwood. Songs bring back so many memories for all of us, fans and artists alike, so I thought it would be great to hear what our special guests choose and for them to share inside stories we've never heard before on December 5 at Bridgestone."

In a second performance post, Urban is in his home studio playing banjo (what he calls a ganjo, which is a banjo with six strings like a guitar) and singing a Brooks & Dunn song. He captioned the clip, "These guys took me out on the road even before I had a record deal, and coming up next month, I get to have the extraordinary full circle moment of being inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame alongside Kix. I'm so thrilled to have the legendary @brooksanddunn at All For The Hall this year!"

This year's show, themed "The Song Remembers When," will feature artists performing a song that defines a memorable moment in their life, in addition to one of their own hits. This is Urban's eighth All for the Hall Nashville concert. They have raised $4.3 million in support of the nonprofit museum and its educational programs.

Keith Urban is a superstar in country music and a gem of a man who plays the guitar like no one else before him or since. His concerts are epic, and he changes them for each city he is in to fit that city.

Recently in Nashville, he bought up-and-coming country singer, who sang in the bar across the street from the Bridgestone Arena, to sing with him giving her two songs and one heck of a push in the music industry.

In the same show, he brought out superstar Luke Combs to sing a couple of songs and even brought his wife, Oscar winner Nicole Kidman to the stage just to say hi to his fans.

It's hard to find just 20 songs that encompass the mega-career of Urban, but we ranked what we believe are his very best for his 55th birthday today (10/26).

20. "You're My Better Half" 2004

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19. "You Look Good in My Shirt" 2008

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18. "Kiss a Girl" 2009

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17. "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" 2015

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16. "Wasted Time" 2016

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15. "You'll Think of Me" 2004

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14. "Better Life" 2005

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13. "Blue Ain't Your Color" 2016

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12. "Sweet Thing" 2008

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11. "Raise 'Em Up" (featuring Eric Church) 2015

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10. "Somebody Like You" 2002

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9. "We Were" 2019

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8. "Days Go By" 2004

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7. "We Were Us" (with Miranda Lambert) 2013

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6. "But for the Grace of God" 2000

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5. "One Too Many" (with P!nk) 2020

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4. "God Whispered Your Name," 2020

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3. "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" 2003

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2. "Where the Blacktop Ends" 2001

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1."The Fighter" (featuring Carrie Underwood) 2017

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.