Keith Urban is opening up about his High and Alive World Tour. The country music superstar will hit the road on May 22, joined by Chase Matthew, Alana Springsteen and Karley Scott Collins. Perhaps surprisingly, Urban picked all of his openings acts himself.

“Chase I had heard about a couple of years ago, and just loved his voice, and his vibe, and his songs are great,” the New Zealand native tells Audacy. “He’s great live, and I thought my audience would really like him a lot. Alana Springsteen sat in with us when we played Summerfest in Milwaukee, and we did a song together. I just loved her vibe, and her voice is so good. So I asked her if she wanted to tag along.

“And then Karley Scott Collins was an artist that a friend of mine, Nathan Chapman, was producing,” he continues. “He called me up and said, ‘I’ve got this track I’d love for you to play a solo on.’ Went into the studio, heard it. Loved her voice, loved the song. Got to meet her, and thought she’s a great fit as well, so we’re bringing all three of them out.”

Urban’s High and Alive World Tour begins in Orange Beach, Alabama. With a few weeks until opening night, Urban can’t wait for the tour to begin.

 

“I’m super impatient right now,” admits the singer. “I wish I was touring tomorrow. I wish we were playing Orange Beach tomorrow … This production we put together, we built it for this tour, but we had a residency in Vegas looming, which was October last year. So we put together this production in time to do the Vegas residency, and use it as an experimental venue with people to figure out how to shape and utilitize the set and everything.”

Urban could have had his big of artists willing to open for him on tour. But the 57-year-old says he is especially drawn to new artists, finding inspiration from them and their music.

“Discovering new artists, discovering new music,” Urban says. “I’m far more interested in new artists and new music, and get more inspiration from new music, new songwriting approaches, new recording sounds, just new ways of doing things. Going to a concert and seeing a different way to play live, and a different way to put things together. It’s never-ending. It’s constant. Even if it circles right back around to something that was 30 years ago is fresh again. It’s really exciting to me.”

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Urban’s tour also includes a few new band members. Although Urban doesn’t give the reason for replacing some of them, he does say he is excited about the new lineup.

“I’ve always just followed the inner voice that says it’s time to make a change, in any area of my life, and sort of just leap.  Just take the leap,” Urban shared with Everything Nash and other outlets, during a recent media event. “I don’t always know where I’m going. It’s a little bit like playing live on stage. I don’t always know what I’m  going to do next. There’s something exhilarating about living that way, and about performing that way.

“Again, we’ve been really lucky with this band,” he continued, “because we’ve got these five shows in February in Vegas that we got to do as a new band, and get some shows under our belt, before we get into rehearsals for our tour. I’m really looking forward to getting out with the new band, new songs, new production, new everything.”

Uran has a Top 40 hit with “Straight Line ,” from his latest HIGH album. Find music and tour dates at KeithUrban.com.