{"id":1306351,"date":"2019-03-21T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804174"},"modified":"2019-03-21T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T15:00:52","slug":"in-the-studio-with-keith-urban-the-heart-of-the-same-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/in-the-studio-with-keith-urban-the-heart-of-the-same-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Studio with Keith Urban: The Heart of the \u201cSame Heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 40m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

How fortunate are we to live in a time when an artist can bring us into the studio in one three-minute tweet? I feel truly blessed, thanks to this one from Keith Urban<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realize that a piece of me will always wonder where you are,\u201d Urban posted with a video of the making of \u201cSame Heart,\u201d a song off his 2018 Graffiti U<\/em> album.<\/p>\n

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“I realize that a piece of me will always wonder where you are\u2026” Step into the studio to see how “Same Heart” from #GraffitiU<\/a> was written and recorded! pic.twitter.com\/XBCIRTS9KQ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Keith Urban (@KeithUrban) March 19, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And because he knows so much about the emotions of song writing and the artistry of arranging music, he says things like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I love about this song and how it came about, with the story being drawn from the music and the repetition of the chords, so that there\u2019s no closure,\u201d he says. \u201cWhich is the point of the song. That I can change everything in my life, but I\u2019ve still got the same heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also describes the literal heartbeat in the song. \u201cIn the heartbeat, you can definitely hear general noise \u2014 ambient, analog noise \u2014 and it really adds to it so much.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always drawn to that fusion of roboticism or machinery of some sort,\u201d he explains, \u201cand then real instruments playing along with it. I\u2019ve always been drawn to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Urban says in this behind-the-scenes video that most of the songs he\u2019s written in the last 20 years almost always have a drum machine present. It gives him a beat, a groove and a foundation. (Even back in 2006, he told me<\/a> the same thing about the day he wrote \u201cBetter Life\u201d with Richard Marx. \u201cRichard had this cool groove on a drum machine, I grabbed a banjo and we were off to the races. It was a tremendously fluid process and quite frankly, a hell of a lot of fun.\u201d Urban added that the two of them sang gibberish lyrics into a cheap cassette recorder and drove around the Chicago suburbs listening to it. \u201cWe cranked it up as loud as it would go, like a couple of kids.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Urban co-wrote \u201cSame Heart\u201d with Jason Evigan, Emily Weisband and Jordan Minton. \u201cWhen the four of us were writing the song, we all very much felt like we knew that place in the song and in the story. The music made us all feel the same,\u201d he said, \u201cand that was a really magical thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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