Ripcord (album)
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| Studio album by Keith Urban | ||||
| Released | 6 May 2016 | |||
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| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 45:42 | |||
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| Entertainment Weekly | B– |
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Ripcord is the ninth studio album by New Zealand-born Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 6 May 2016, through Hit Red and Capitol Nashville. For this album, Urban collaborated with musicians such as Carrie Underwood, Pitbull, and Nile Rodgers. The album was preceded by the singles "John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16" and "Break on Me", with "Wasted Time", "Blue Ain't Your Color", and "The Fighter" also being released from it. As with his previous album Fuse, Urban worked with multiple record producers, including longtime producer Dann Huff.
The album was nominated for Best Country Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.
This album has been called Urban's most experimental album to date. Urban told Rolling Stone, "It was a lot of searching, a lot of experimenting, and when you get to work with as many people as I did, you end up with a lot of stuff."
One of the tracks, "Sun Don't Let Me Down" features Pitbull, and Nile Rodgers on guitar. The first verse in that song makes reference to Urban's wife Nicole Kidman's 1995 film To Die For.
Urban promoted the album by performing "Wasted Time" on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on 6 May and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on 12 May 2016. Three days after the album was released Urban played a free lunchtime concert in front of the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on 9 May 2016. He performed tracks from Ripcord such as "Gone Tomorrow (Here Today)" and "Blue Ain't Your Color". Urban embarked on a world tour in support of the album on the RipCORD World Tour, beginning on 2 June 2016.
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