Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing

Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
Studio album by Keith Urban
Released	7 November 2006
Genre	Country
Length	62:21
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Keith Urban, Dann Huff
Keith Urban chronology
Days Go By (2005) Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing (2006) Greatest Hits: 18 Kids (2007)
Singles from Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing
"Once in a Lifetime" Released: 22 August 2006 "Stupid Boy" Released: 5 December 2006 "I Told You So" Released: 8 May 2007 "Everybody" Released: 18 September 2007

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Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing is the fifth studio album by Australian country singer Keith Urban. It is his fourth album release in the United States, and his fifth for Capitol Nashville. The album was issued on 7 November 2006. It includes four singles with "Once in a Lifetime", "Stupid Boy", "I Told You So" and "Everybody", all of which were Top 10 hits on the Billboard country charts. The album has been certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA and Platinum by the CRIA and ARIA. Urban produced the album with Dann Huff.

Content

On the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart dated 2 September 2006, this album's lead-off single "Once in a Lifetime" debuted at number 17, making it the highest-debuting country single in the 62-year history of the Billboard country music charts at the time. This record was later broken in 2007 by Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink" (which debuted at number 16 on the same chart), and then again by Garth Brooks' "More Than a Memory" (which debuted at number 1). "Once in a Lifetime" went on to peak at number 6 on the country charts. The other singles released from this album ("Stupid Boy", "I Told You So", and "Everybody ") went to number 3, 2, and 5 respectively, making this the first American album of Urban's career not to produce a Number One hit. "Raise the Barn", a duet with Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, was written in response to Hurricane Katrina.^[2]

The song "I Can't Stop Loving You" is a cover of a Leo Sayer song. "Stupid Boy", was originally recorded by its writer, Sarah Buxton.

Track listing

• All songs produced by Keith Urban and Dann Huff, except tracks 11 and 13, produced solely by Urban.
• The Japanese edition omits "Raise the Barn" but adds "Gotta Let It Go" as track 13. The international version omits "Raise the Barn".

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.^[2]

• Keith Urban – lead vocals, background vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, ganjo, EBow, slide guitar, piano, mandolin, bouzouki, percussion, papoose, keyboards, drum machine, bass guitar
• Beth Beeson – french horn
• Tom Bukovac – rhythm guitar
• Larry Corbett – cello
• Eric Darken – percussion
• Mark Douthit – tenor saxophone
• Dan Dugmore – pedal steel guitar
• Jerry Flowers – background vocals
• Barry Green – trombone
• Mike Haynes – trumpet
• Erin Horner – french horn
• Dann Huff – rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion
• Chris McHugh – drums, percussion
• Rami Jaffee – Hammond organ
• Tim Lauer – synthesizer, accordion, harmonium, pump organ, piano
• Doug Moffatt – baritone saxophone
• Monty Powell – bass guitar
• Eric Rigler – tin whistle, Uilleann pipes
• Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
• David Stone – upright bass
• Russell Terrell – background vocals
• Joy Worland – french horn
• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle
• David Campbell - string arranager, conductor

All strings performed by the Nashville String Machine.

Chart performance

Album

Singles

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