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Keith Urban Often Comes Home With Scratches on His Chest

Keith Urban likes to run through his crowd each night and let fans get a closer look at him. Sometimes, he can make a back row seat a front row…

Keith Urban Often Comes Home With Scratches on His Chest
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Keith Urban likes to run through his crowd each night and let fans get a closer look at him. Sometimes, he can make a back row seat a front row view.

There is a level of danger, though, being in such a large crowd and not just the fact that COVID is still lingering. He told us, "When you're out engaging people, you are taking all kinds of risks, not just because of this climate that we're in, but because of all kinds of things, but I love being out in the crowd."

Urban adds that he's glad he's able to do it once again saying, "It was really hard in the early days of the show to not be going out to the audience, so I was anxious to get to the summer sheds where I feel like we could set up a tiny little stage for just me to run out and do at least a couple of songs."

He moves pretty quickly through the crowd, but sometimes things get a bit hairy getting so close to his loyal and excited following. He laughs, "Yeah, some people grab a little tighter than others. Who knows, whether intentional or accidental, you know someone will grab a guitar strap, and that thing will pull your neck back in a second. I'm very grateful that my wife knows what I do for a living because many times, I've come home with literally huge scratch marks across my chest. Any other guy might have something to answer to, but I've got video footage to show what happened."

Keith Urban debuts a brand new song today (2/27) at country radio.

Known for his hit songs and amazing guitar playing, we take a look of some of Keith's guitar slinging ways through photos from the last couple of years.

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Keith Urban performs on NBC's "Today" at Rockefeller Plaza on August 7, 2015 in New York City.


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Keith Urban performs onstage during the 55th annual ASCAP Country Music awards at the Ryman Auditorium on November 6, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban peforms onstage during Lincoln Center's American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall on May 29, 2018 in New York City.


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Keith Urban performs at All for the Hall: Under the Influence Benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum at Bridgestone Arena on February 10, 2020, in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban performs onstage during the ATLive 2019 concert at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on November 15, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Keith Urban performs onstage during the ATLive 2019 concert at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on November 15, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)


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Keith Urban performs onstage during the ATLive 2019 concert at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on November 15, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Keith Urban performs onstage during the ATLive 2019 concert at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on November 15, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia.


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Keith Urban performs onstage during the 53rd annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban performs onstage during day 1 of the 2019 Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival on September 21, 2019 in Franklin, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert perform on stage during the 13th Annual ACM Honors Awards at Ryman Auditorium on August 21, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban performs On ABC's "Good Morning America" at SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park on August 09, 2019 in New York City.


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Keith Urban performs on stage for day 4 of the 2019 CMA Music Festival on June 09, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


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Keith Urban performs on stage for day 4 of the 2019 CMA Music Festival on June 09, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.