{"id":19519,"date":"2019-10-21T09:58:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1813456"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:58:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:58:01","slug":"a-guy-walks-into-a-song-how-eric-church-wound-up-on-keith-urbans-we-were","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/a-guy-walks-into-a-song-how-eric-church-wound-up-on-keith-urbans-we-were\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guy Walks Into a Song: How Eric Church Wound Up on Keith Urban\u2019s \u201cWe Were\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:673961?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n20m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s some history here, for sure. <\/p>\n<p>The brand new version of Keith Urban\u2019s \u201cWe Were\u201d featuring Eric Church is not the first time the two singers have released a song together. Remember their 2015 \u201cRaise \u2019Em Up\u201d? That one was written by Tom Douglas, Jaren Johnston and Jeffrey Steele, and it was excellent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31KOGb1MU4g?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/31KOGb1MU4g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then this year, Church wrote this song called \u201cWe Were\u201d with Ryan Tyndell and Jeff Hyde, and Urban recorded it and released it in May. And now? Now the two men are actually <em>singing it together <\/em>for a special version of the nostalgic tune that looks back fondly \u2014 without regrets or remorse \u2014 on on a first love.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/80Ao6pqN6Xc?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/80Ao6pqN6Xc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Urban shared the song on social media on Monday morning (Oct. 21). And over the weekend, he\u2019d teased the release with an Instagram post with two microphone emojis.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeWere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeWere<\/a> feat. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericchurch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ericchurch<\/a> out now! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lFB31ySKyE\">https:\/\/t.co\/lFB31ySKyE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6Q2yGPO9mM\">pic.twitter.com\/6Q2yGPO9mM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KeithUrban\/status\/1186301869913792513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3zhXhBpNFO\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\"><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1813456\/a-guy-walks-into-a-song-how-eric-church-wound-up-on-keith-urbans-we-were\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 20m ago There\u2019s some history here, for sure. The brand new version of Keith Urban\u2019s \u201cWe Were\u201d featuring Eric Church is not the first time the two singers have released a song together. Remember their 2015 \u201cRaise \u2019Em Up\u201d? That one was written by Tom Douglas, Jaren Johnston and Jeffrey Steele, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 04:16:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}