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Keith Urban on New Album ‘High,’ Writing about His Dysfunctional Family Dynamic & Duetting With Lainey Wilson: ‘She Killed It’

Keith Urban on his new album 'High,' writing about his dysfunctional family dynamic and duetting with Lainey Wilson.

As Keith Urban describes writing “Break the Chain” — the raw, confessional song about stopping destructive generational patterns that closes his new album, High — he provides tremendous insight into his creative process. “I started playing this guitar that [co-writer] Marc Scibilia had in his studio with flat-wound strings and a rubber bridge, and it just made this interesting sound,” he explains. “I don’t know if my dad, who passed away a long time ago, would be okay with the song or not, but he would love that it’s truthful, and the intent of it is a forward motion of trying to do things different,” he offers.

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