Keith Urban, the hunky Aussie country music superstar and hubby of Hollywood's Nicole Kidman, owes a lot to scruffy United Kingdom convicts banished to Australia two and a half centuries ago.
They're the folks who, at the end of a day of back-breaking labour, found the energy to sing. From those songs about loneliness and endurance grew a musical tradition that eventually fed directly into Australia's robust country scene.
"Those early strains are still prevalent in Australian country music, but I don't know specific songs," says the country rocker by telephone from Jacksonville, Fla., his accent largely intact despite having lived in Nashville for 15 years.
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