{"id":1306092,"date":"2019-03-19T11:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804091"},"modified":"2019-03-19T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:56:20","slug":"keith-urban-and-post-malone-connect-over-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/keith-urban-and-post-malone-connect-over-elvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban and Post Malone Connect Over Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:670136?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\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">26m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The last time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/artists\/post-malone\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Post Malone<\/a> was in Nashville, he lived it up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1794540\/post-malone-breaks-records-and-celebrates-the-nashville-way\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lower Broadway<\/a> with Luke Combs, Kane Brown, LANCO\u2019s Brandon Lancaster and Dan + Shay\u2019s Shay Mooney. That night, the rapper-singer was in town headlining the Municipal Auditorium and fresh off breaking several <em>Billboard<\/em> chart records with music from his sophomore album, <em>beerbongs &amp; bentleys<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Their after-party was honky-tonking at stops that included Dierks Bentley\u2019s Whiskey Row and Tootsie\u2019s Orchid Lounge where Post Malone covered a little Elvis Presley live.<\/p>\n<p>So, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/keith-urban\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Urban<\/a> and Post Malone first collaborated on a live tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Elvis Presley\u2019s Comeback Special, they totally hit it off. They connected instantly over their diverse music tastes and mutual appreciation of country music (and we\u2019re guessing they probably compared tattoos.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love him because he\u2019s such a unique fusion,\u201d Urban said of the rapper-singer in a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/shows\/hot-20-countdown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">CMT Hot 20 Countdown<\/a> interview. \u201cHe\u2019s got a lot of country in him. He knows so much about country music, hip hop, rap, soul, blues, just everything. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:589cf932-b0fa-4da4-858c-2898754c2da3\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Urban heads to the 54th annual ACM Awards with two nominations for male artist and the night\u2019s top honor of entertainer of the year. Reba McEntire will host the show live from Las Vegas\u2019 MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7 at 8 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>CMT Hot 20 Countdown airs Saturdays and Sundays at 9 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804091\/keith-urban-and-post-malone-connect-over-elvis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 26m ago The last time Post Malone was in Nashville, he lived it up on Lower Broadway with Luke Combs, Kane Brown, LANCO\u2019s Brandon Lancaster and Dan + Shay\u2019s Shay Mooney. That night, the rapper-singer was in town headlining the Municipal Auditorium and fresh off breaking several Billboard chart records with music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 22:47:31","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}