Golden Road (album)
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| Golden Road | ||||
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| Released | 8 October 2002 | |||
| Recorded | Late 2001 - Mid 2002 | |||
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| Length | 53:40 | |||
| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
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Golden Road is the third studio album by Australian country music singer Keith Urban. It was released on 8 October 2002 via Capitol Records Nashville. The album includes the singles "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me". This was Urban's first album to be produced by Dann Huff, who has produced all of his albums since.
This album produced four singles: "Somebody Like You", "Raining on Sunday", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me", which all made it to the Top 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. "Somebody Like You", "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me", and "You'll Think of Me" all reached number one, while "Raining on Sunday" peaked at number three.[3] "Raining on Sunday" was originally recorded by Radney Foster on the 1998 album See What You Want to See, with a backing vocal from Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish. "Jeans On" is a cover of a Lord David Dundas song.
The song "You Look Good in My Shirt" was originally slated to be the album's fifth single; however, Capitol Nashville instead chose to release a single from a new album; despite its withdrawal, the song charted at number 60 from unsolicited airplay as an album cut. Urban re-recorded the song in 2008 for a re-issue of his compilation album Greatest Hits: 18 Kids and released that version as a single that same year. The re-recorded version was a number-one single in 2008.[3]
Urban co-produced tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, and 11 with Dann Huff, and he produced the rest of the album all by himself.[4]
Commercial performance
Golden Road debuted at number eleven on the US Billboard 200 and number two on the BillboardTop Country Albums chart, selling 66,500 copies in its first week.[5] As of September 2004, the album has sold 1.8 million copies in the US.[5] On 22 September 2005, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over three million copies in the United States.[6]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Somebody Like You" | 5:23 | |
| 2. | "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" |
| 4:15 |
| 3. | "Whenever I Run" |
| 3:39 |
| 4. | "What About Me" |
| 3:52 |
| 5. | "You'll Think of Me" |
| 4:53 |
| 6. | "Jeans On" | 3:33 | |
| 7. | "You Look Good in My Shirt" | 3:47 | |
| 8. | "You're Not Alone Tonight" | Urban | 3:31 |
| 9. | "You Won" |
| 5:21 |
| 10. | "Song for Dad" | Urban | 3:56 |
| 11. | "Raining on Sunday" |
| 4:45 |
| 12. | "You're Not My God" |
| 4:14 |
| 13. | "One Chord Song" (hidden track[7]) | Urban | 2:13 |
| Total length: | 53:40 | ||
Personnel
Adapted from Golden Road liner notes.[4]
Musicians
- Tim Akers - keyboards (1, 3, 9, 12), Hammond B-3 organ (8)
- Tom Bukovac - electric guitar (1, 3, 5, 7–12)
- Matt Chamberlain - drums (3, 5, 7, 11), drum loop (3)
- Eric Darken - percussion (3, 5, 7, 10, 11)
- Dan Dugmore - electric guitar (3, 5, 11), steel guitar (3)
- Jerry Flowers - background vocals (12)
- Aubrey Haynie - fiddle (10)
- John Hobbs - keyboards (4, 12), piano (8)
- Dann Huff - electric guitar (1)
- Scotty Huff - background vocals (11)
- Chris McHugh - drums (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12), percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12)
- Jason Mowery - mandolin (2), Dobro (4, 6, 9)
- Steve Nathan - keyboards (3, 5, 7, 10, 11)
- Monty Powell - background vocals (2)
- Jimmie Lee Sloas - bass guitar (all tracks except 10)
- Russell Terrell - background vocals (1, 5, 7, 8, 10)
- Keith Urban - vocals; background vocals (all tracks), electric guitar (all tracks), ganjo (1, 2, 4, 6, 9), EBow (1, 3), cardboard box (1), acoustic guitar (3, 9, 12), piano (3)
- Glenn Worf - bass guitar (10)
String section on track 10
Performed by the Nashville String Machine; Carl Gorodetzky, concert master
- Carl Gorodetzky, Pam Sixfin, Alan Umstead, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale - violins
- Kris Wilkinson, Gary Vanosdale - violas
- Bob Mason, Carol Rabinowitz - cellos
- Phillip Cooper - string recording assistant
- Ronn Huff - string arranger and conductor
- Brent King - string recording
- Jeff Sochor - string recording assistant
Technical
- Jeff Balding - recording
- Drew Bollman - recording assistant
- Joanna Carter - art direction
- Rodney Dawson - mixing assistant
- Tony Green - mixing assistant
- Mike "Frog" Griffith - production coordination
- Jed Hackett - recording assistant
- Robert Hadley - mastering
- Mark Hagen - additional recording
- Dann Huff - producer (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11)
- Joan Pont Lezica - photography
- Justin Niebank - recording, mixing
- J.R. Rodriguez - mixing assistant
- Christopher Rowe - digital editing
- Doug Sax - mastering
- Steve Short - mixing assistant
- Keith Urban - producer (all tracks)
