Keith Urban "John Deere, John Cougar, John 3:16"

Interesting stereo effects on his voice that make it much bigger compared to his tunes in the 2000's which were pretty dry and smaller in the stereo field comparatively.

It's not bad by todays Country standards, and seems like a well written song, even though it doesn't sound much like Country "Love Somebody" still does it for me as far as Urban goes.

Yep. Interesting that the background reverb on the words "Freedom" and Eden" sounds like a mono verb, or a stereo verb panned closer together than the stereo slap. Puts them inside his vocal and back.

I don't listen to Country anymore, and Urban can probably do whatever he wants, but also the use of the gated snare/sample (very short decay) sounds different than a typical country snare. I would suspect that more hip hop drums are acomin' if they haven't already.

Keith is kind of like Brad Paisley to me, those guys are pioneers and I'll dig whatever they do, they've always had a little quirkiness to their style so it's cool. When other artist totally change what they've been doing for a long time, or some of that new stuff that makes absolutely no sense plays I pass and roll my eyes. Interesting song though, and I bet the writers version sounds totally different than that. I like it though, pretty cool song.

What number in the long line of pop culture reference ditties is this one... Why do I think I hear Autotune in it?

He's selling guitars on the Home Shopping Network. I'm always kinda conflicted about that kind of thing. At first I think "really?", but then I think if it gets some kid playing, or if he uses the money for a good cause its good.

i grew up about 800 meters from keith urbans front door and we went to the same school.

lyrically i find this song odd because the lyrics don't match the picture i had growing up.

Afraid I'm with Martin on this one. What a stupid string of lyrical cliches. A crossfire hurricane is a lyrically far superior picture than a prom queen in a Chevy. Especially since that picture was not stolen from somebody else's song. Another boulevard of broken dreams, really? Apart from the fact that the genre is not my thing anyway, I had expected a more mature offering from Mr. Urban. Looks like he's desperately buddying up the the bro-country folks to sell records? Try on some James Taylor for class.

I agree it's finely crafted. I can see the attempted pop art there.

I also think urban is immensely talented.

still I think it is little contrived. but that's pop music. pop music doesn't need to make sense it only needs to make money.

lest we forget when pop and art had meaning.

IMO, the writer is a disturbed individual, which doesn't say much for Mr. Urban for buying into it. They are about two+ decades too late to ride the Pop Ref wave... John 3:16?... Really!?... That makes the song look disconnected from itself. It seems like they are trying to cash in on touching as many lifestyles as they can, which immediately alienated me. The more I think about it the more gimmicky it seems. Fail! I M O

Guys I'm sorry but I just can't manage to accept the electro music/hillbilly lyric combo. It just doesn't register in my brain for some reason. Just sounds wrong. Maybe it's where I was raised listening to grassroots lyrics with grassroots instrumentation. Whatever it just doesn't click. Some things just don't go together. This to me is one of them.

When I first heard the track I didn't like it but it has grown on me. I'll take this over the typical bro-country any day.

I have noticed that Chris McHugh does not tour and play live for Keith anymore. I've read that he was the band leader and played on all of his records. Wonder what happened there?

I saw this vid a few weeks ago on FB. The making of the "3 Johns". Pretty cool stuff all at Blackbird. Matt Chamberlain is on skins (and drum programming).


We found out that the Urban family looked at the 440 acre farm right next door to us in Nashville but passed because it was "too much land". Seriously? Not like he would take care of it himself. I imagine they would be pretty cool neighbors to have. "Hey Keith, come on over and lets test this new mic preamp".