Keith Urban brought back reminders of his early days for me in an exclusive performance at the legendary Ryman Auditorium last week in Nashville and showed the audience a different side to his playing.

For those people who think that his music has gone too far to the pop side, this video shows that Keith can still bring it back to his country roots.

This reminds me of the first and only visit Keith made to Studio Big  in the late 1990's. He had just begun his solo career after being front man for the group The RanchMark Ericson, myself and some other staffers were on hand to hear Keith's music.

Keith played a few songs live on the air for us and was incredible as you can expect. As he went on to achieve superstar status, I always remembered how special meeting and hearing Keith for the first time really was. This video is a glimpse into what that was like.

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