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.
Content 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. "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.
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.
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. As of September 2004, the album has sold 1.8 million copies in the US. 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.
Track listing
Personnel Adapted from Golden Road liner notes.
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), producer (all tracks) 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
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2002–04) Peak position
Year-end charts Chart (2002) PositionCanadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) 17 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 49 Chart (2003) Position US Billboard 200 97 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 13 Chart (2004) Position US Billboard 200 53 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) 7
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions US Country US US AC US Adult USPop AUS UK 2002 "Somebody Like You" 1 23 — — — — — 2003 "Raining on Sunday" 3 38 — — — 79 — "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" 1 30 — — — — — 2004 "You'll Think of Me" 1 24 2 6 38 — 88 "—" denotes releases that did not chart
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