Most of my favorite reviews are from The Screen Door. This particular one is FANTASTIC since the writer was one of the lucky 300 allowed into the Keith Urban acoustic set at Joe’s Bar in Chicago. I’ve always said that Keith has something different than most…His live shows are something to see, but acoustic he reigns you in even deeper. Not many performers can treat a crowd of 300 or a crowd of 20,000 with the same intimacy.

The afternoon’s final performance, “Stupid Boy” closed the all too brief acoustic set with a pulverizing performance. Despite not having written the song, you can hear the vulnerability in Urban’s vocal performance. You feel ache in his third-person brooding delivery. As he closed his eyes, he transported himself and all 300 fans in attendance for the most affecting performance of the day. Every American Idol performer could learn from this performance. Nothing about it was over-the-top, yet with an impassioned vocal and an acoustic guitar, he left a overwhelming impression no one will soon forget. It’s almost impossible to believe he didn’t write it. Most people think singing is about technique, but Urban proved it’s all about pulling from your inner emotions.

The entire review is fantastic and spot-on. Read the full review here.

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