Country Carol Countdown: #2 Walking in a Winter Wonderland – Keith Urban

By Bennett Owen

Our favorite Christmas songs of 2011 –

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OK, be honest with me. When is the last time you heard a Christmas Carol with a riff from Sweet Home Alabama thrown in for good measure? There’s only one entertainer alive who can pull off a stunt like that and make it sound absolutely natural and exceedingly stylish at the same time.

Keith Urban is a guitar legend, a man who grasped at a second chance in life and rode it to the very pinnacle of country music greatness.  And along the way he seems to be having more pure fun than the law allows, sitting on some steps in Nashville, jamming with a couple of buddies…and the result is pretty close to perfect.

The Top 20 Country Love Songs of All Time - Number 17

by Jim Poulton

Keith Urban: Making Memories of Us

Keith Urban. Photo courtesy of keithurban.net.

Making Memories of Us is a song written from innocence, from the earliest tiptoes of love. Where Remember When (Number 18) looked back on years that have passed, Urban sings about his promise to make memories worth remembering. ‘I’ll earn your trust making memories of us,’ he says. It’s a sweet devotion to all those expansive, live-altering and often foolhardy emotions that invade us with Cupid’s arrows. Fortunately for the love song industry, many of us survive all those emotions. For others, those arrows are a bit more like spears and harpoons. But keep the faith. With 7 billion people in the world, there’s got to be somebody for you.

See Urban's website here.