Keith Urban goes with instinct on digital release

Detroit: Keith Urban`s contribution to the iTunes Originals series features interview segments and new, live-in-studio recordings of six songs -- including three from his latest album, the chart-topping `Defying Gravity.`

On the just-released digital set, Urban treats his fans to fresh renditions of `Defying Gravity`s` second single, `Kiss a Girl,` its current single, `Only You Can Love Me This Way,` and the track `Til Summer Comes Around.` "There was a particular clarity that I had with who I am and what I wanted to say and what kind of music I like making," he told Billboard.com. "On this record I didn`t do a lot of second-guessing. I think I might have done a lot of second-guessing in the past, and with this record I just operated much more from instinct. I just kept everything spontaneous, and I think it is a much stronger record because of that approach." The rest of the iTunes Originals album offers a career overview spanning the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised country star`s recording career. It features new renditions of `Who Wouldn`t Want to Be Me,` `Days Go By` and `Tonight I Wanna Cry,` as well as the original album versions of `But for the Grace of God,` `You`ll Think of Me,` `Making Memories of Us,` `Raise the Barn` and `Defying Gravity`s` first single, `Sweet Thing.` The collection mixes the songs with a dozen interview segments, in which Urban talks about how he got started, his first Grammy Award and the pressure of following up successful albums. "I feel touched when I see people singing along with the songs and you just see the love, the want and the joy and the fact that they`re so with you in the moment," Urban says in one of the interviews. "It`s a really blessed job that I have that I get to see that." `Defying Gravity` was released March 31 and debuted as Urban`s first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Urban is touring North America until October 9 and has dates booked in Australia for December. Bureau Report