{"id":1310473,"date":"2019-05-20T09:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1806829"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:04:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:04:21","slug":"keith-urban-on-that-unlikely-eric-church-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/keith-urban-on-that-unlikely-eric-church-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Urban on That Unlikely Eric Church Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 9m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

I knew it. I could tell from one of the first rhymes of this song \u2014 At least there\u2019s a little bit of sweet in the bitter\/Though a part of me is always gonna miss her<\/em> \u2014 that it came from Eric Church. I don\u2019t know what it is about the way he crafts lyrics and tells stories, but \u201cWe Were\u201d just screams Eric Church.<\/p>\n

And I wasn\u2019t wrong.<\/p>\n

The new Keith Urban song was a Church co-write. He penned the tune with Jeff Hyde and Ryan Tyndell. But when Urban texted him about it, it sounds like Church has written so many country songs that he didn\u2019t remember this one per se. At least not at first.<\/p>\n

In a recent radio interview<\/a>, Urban talked about how he found out who was behind this first-love love song. \u201cI had no idea Eric (Church) was a writer on it when we went in and recorded it. We actually recorded it last December before Christmas,\u201d\u201d he said. \u201cAnd then I just lived with it for a while tinkering little bits and pieces over the next handful of months until we finished it out. And it wasn\u2019t until I was doing label copy and needed to make sure I had all the lyrics right and asked for a copy of there lyrics and that\u2019s the first time I saw the writers on the song.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I read the names on the lyric sheet, I texted him and I said, \u2019Did you write this song \u2019We Were\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, Church replied to Urban\u2019s text asking, \u201cIs that about something about a water town and something?\u201d<\/p>\n

It makes sense that he might not be able to quickly recall all the songs he\u2019s written. Church is one of Nashville\u2019s most prolific country songwriters, even when he\u2019s not recording those songs for his own albums. For example, he co-wrote a Zac Brown Band song \u201cWildfire\u201d and he co-wrote Terri Clark\u2019s \u201cThe World Needs a Drink.\u201d All in all, Church has 260 songs in his songwriter\/composer repertoire. But Urban\u2019s been staying busy with songwriting himself. Since he moved to Nashville in the early 90s, Urban has composed 268 songs.<\/p>\n

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