Four-time Grammy Award winner Keith Urban has just released highly-anticipated new single “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.” This musical treat comes almost two years after the Aussie singer dropped his No.1 album Fuse, which spawned an impressive four No.1 singles. Given the nature of this new tune, it seems that we can expect an exciting new crop of genre-crossing songs.
Urban’s latest track shipped to country radio early yesterday morning. “John Cougar. John Deere. John 3:16” will also make a huge debut live on stage during Wednesday night’s CMT Music Awards at 7:00 PM CT on CMT.
“It’s a great feeling to be back in the studio shaping a new album,” stated Urban in a press release. “‘John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16’ was sent to me a few months ago by one of the songwriters and I loved it immediately – loved it so much that right before I walked out on stage at the Ryman (Auditorium) for CRS a few months back, I thought I’d play the song solo acoustic to see what the audience thought. Flash forward and there’s no doubt that their response that day helped make it the first single from what will be my next album.”
The song was penned by Shane McAnally, Ross Copperman and Josh Osborne and co-produced by Dann Huff and Urban. Urban said that the song “resonated deeply” with him from the second he heard it.
“It’s the poetic use of the three Johns and what each represents to me,” he said.
“I learned everything I ever needed to know from John Cougar, John Deere and John 3:16,” Urban croons in the song’s chorus.
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