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Keith Urban, Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne 2014 photo by Ros O'Gorman

Keith Urban Christens New Album ‘ripChord’

by Paul Cashmere

Keith Urban has been promising a new album for upwards of a year but has kept details tightly reigned in. For some, that would have been out of secrecy. For Urban, he was just too busy to put the finishing touches on the set.

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