Keith Urban

How do you save a song for six years?

Because obviously there's an affinity for it or you wouldn't keep saving it.

And when we made this Yacht Rock record...

My management said, man, it'd be great if you could do a song with Michael McDonald or somebody like that, Kenny Loggins or someone.

And I said, oh, it's strange you say that because we wrote this song six years ago, imagining Michael McDonald singing the chorus.

And I said, you know, it'd be great if Michael could sing the chorus.

And they go, yeah, do you think you could do that for the record?

And I'd already mixed, mastered, sequenced and handed in the whole album to the label.

And I'm like, for what album?

And they go, this one.

What are you talking about?

And they're like, well, you know, Michael McDonald, you know?

And so I went, okay.

So within 10 days, I put a session together with the full band, tracked the song, had never met Michael, met him through a mutual friend, sent him the song.

Is it still cool to you if you get something back from a Michael McDonald who's singing on a song that you wrote?

Yeah.

Okay, I don't know if it ever... It was surreal talking to him.

Yeah?

Yeah, the first... Because I got his number and I called.

He was just the sweetest guy on the planet.