Keith Urban finds right chemistry for new 'Fuse' (USA News)

Keith Urban likes to compose tunes beginning with a drum machine and his six-string banjo. Hank Williams may not have done it that way, yet the juxtaposition works for the Australian-raised nation vocalist, who will discharge his new collection, Fuse, without much fanfare.

"Those two things are truly intertwined, for need of an improved approach to put it," says Urban, 45. "This was the collection where I needed to take that to the following level — possibly combined consoles, some modified things, notwithstanding more natural instruments the six-string banjo, as well as the bouzouki, the mandolin, acoustic guitar — and get better approaches to breaker every one of the aforementioned sounds to




The foremost single from Fuse, Little Bit of Everything, beat USA TODAY's nation airplay diagram a week ago. Urban's new single is a two part harmony with Miranda Lambert called We Were Us.

Urban says he'd been keeping his ears open for a potential two part harmony with Lambert, who toured with him in 2006. "I cherish the sound of our voices together, however discovering the right tune is never simple," he says.

We Were Us, which starts with Lambert singing about remembrances of secondary school football and sentiment, possess all the necessary qualities impeccably. "I crossed my fingers and trusted that she adored it."

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Intertwine, out Tuesday, likewise incorporates a two part harmony with Eric Church rang Raise 'Em, however Urban's joint efforts with his makers were similarly as key to making the collection he needed. On Fuse's first eight tracks, Urban groups with eight sets of makers, from Butch Walker and Norwegian group Stargate, who've worked with a percentage of the grandest names in popular music, to Zach Crowell and Ross Copperman, who are simply starting to make their notorieties in Nashville.

"I just think everyone has something to carry," Urban says. "You have some person who has a great deal of experience, and that could be true gainful, then you have some person who has by no experience, and that is extraordinarily useful, since its so positively unique."

Urban's first collection in almost three years is likewise his first since 2011 surgery to evacuate a polyp from one vocal line and a knob from an alternate. After the surgery, the consequence of what he says his surgeon called "worn treads," Urban couldn't talk for three weeks. At that point he needed to re-train the muscles that helped him sing, since he no more drawn out needed to strain to hit certain notes.
"To go up there didn't require half the exertion it used to, so I would continually be singing sharp and going admirably above the note, since my muscles were utilized to the substantial lifting," he says.

In the meantime that he's starting his new collection, Urban is likewise beginning trials for Season 13 of American Idol. He's the main extra from a year ago judging board, however Randy Jackson will serve as a coach on the show next season. Urban and individual judges Jennifer Lopez and Harry Connick Jr. started listening to vocalists a week ago.

"It's main a couple of days in, yet I feel like we have a great furrow going," says Urban, who ends up getting along particularly well with Connick, thought of one of the best visitor tutors the show has ever had.

"We have very much alike, somewhat distorted faculties of diversion," Urban says. "He can set 'em up and I can thump 'em down, and I can set 'em up and he can thump 'em down truly well. I'm adoring competing with him.

"Be that as it may his musicality is truly phenomenal. This show's never had anything that profound previously."

On days off from Idol, Urban proceeds his Light the Fuse tour, which started in July and will close in February in Nashville. That is the place he's getting to way test his new sounds and see where they may take him next.

"I'm more determined by where nation could go than all else," he says. "I make whatever records I make. I don't even consider them as far as type. They're just me and my sound. This collection was seeing where I could take my sound and, simultaneously, perhaps that is a specific sort of blue grass music in 2014."