Keith Urban Essentials

It's not all that common for Australia to turn out an American country superstar, but then again, almost nothing about Keith Urban is average. Ever since breaking out in the late ‘90s, he has played entirely by his own rules, whether he's showing his rock ‘n' roll guitar-slinger side on the hard-riffing heartland rock of “Put You in a Song,” sliding across the slinky hip-hop grooves of “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16,” or proving his sex symbol status is well-deserved by crooning his heart out on the mournful lost-love ballad “Stupid Boy.”