Song #93: Keith Urban - "Where the Blacktop Ends" (1999)
Keith Urban
"I'm
gonna kick off my shoes and run in barefeet; where the grass, and the
dirt, and the gravel all meet. Goin' back to the well gonna visit old
friends. And feed my soul where the blacktop ends."
All
the teenage girls who think they've loved Keith Urban for years, get in
line; did you own his debut album on cassette and have it on hand for
easy access in your mom's car for it to be played? Didn't think so. In
all seriousness, Keith Urban and Toby Keith were my go-to country
singers when I was a child, mainly for their simple but wonderfully
structured songs about life itself.
Urban's "Where the Blacktop Ends" is no exception. It's a wonderful song about reminiscing, hungering, and reliving ones childhood memories when they're older and wiser. It shows a very young Urban, looking as if a young David Spade, Corey Haim, and Paul Walker were blended together and the creation given a tiny but present soul patch, dressed to impress, rocking on his guitar in an underground parking garage talking about how he wants to "kick off his shoes and run in barefeet; where the grass, and the dirt, and the gravel all meet."
The music video is edited together wonderfully, showing various different shots of Urban - sometimes looking as if he belongs in the Trenchcoat Mafia with dark sunglasses and a heavy black trenchcoat - with his friends, reconnecting, and playing their music loud. The song is immensely underrated and provides one with a feeling of nostalgia and personal adventure that is far too unsung in contemporary music - even in country music.
Give "Where the Blacktop Ends" a listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhsO7LnwyBI
Urban's "Where the Blacktop Ends" is no exception. It's a wonderful song about reminiscing, hungering, and reliving ones childhood memories when they're older and wiser. It shows a very young Urban, looking as if a young David Spade, Corey Haim, and Paul Walker were blended together and the creation given a tiny but present soul patch, dressed to impress, rocking on his guitar in an underground parking garage talking about how he wants to "kick off his shoes and run in barefeet; where the grass, and the dirt, and the gravel all meet."
The music video is edited together wonderfully, showing various different shots of Urban - sometimes looking as if he belongs in the Trenchcoat Mafia with dark sunglasses and a heavy black trenchcoat - with his friends, reconnecting, and playing their music loud. The song is immensely underrated and provides one with a feeling of nostalgia and personal adventure that is far too unsung in contemporary music - even in country music.
Give "Where the Blacktop Ends" a listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhsO7LnwyBI
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