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Keith Urban's fourth album, Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing, was released literally days after he entered an alcohol treatment center to treat his disease. The album was issued, debuted in the top spot in the Billboard country charts, scored four hit singles, and eventually went double platinum. What's so remarkable about this is that Urban's rehabilitation regimen didn't allow him to tour for months after the disc's release, potentially hurting sales. It didn't happen. Urban's now trademark meld of country, pop, and rock & roll connects deeply with fans and they are nothing if not loyal. Defying Gravity is his fifth studio release, and in many ways it simultaneously builds on its predecessor while standing apart from it completely. Certainly, there are similarities in sound and approach: Urban once again worked with Dan Huff to co-produce the set, and his now signature manner of layering everything from strings and drum machines to taut, sheeny electric guitars playing power chords, banjos, pedal steel, and crunchy, crisp drums is a sound that belongs to him alone. The other is that this album is unapologetically one of redemption tomes colored as love songs in various shades and tempos -- though none of them are heartbreak songs. He co-wrote eight of Defying Gravity's 11 songs, and arranged all of them.
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TRACK LISTINGS
1 Kiss a Girl 3:46
2 If I Could Ever Love 5:00
3 Sweet Thing 3:48
4 'Til Summer Comes Around 5:31
5 My Heart Is Open 5:29
6 Hit the Ground Runnin' 3:24
7 Only You Can Love Me This Way 4:07
8 Standing Right in Front of You 4:01
9 Why's It Feel So Long 3:24
10 I'm In 4:33
11 Thank You 5:14
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