Dinner For Two: Keith & Jake Owen

Keith Urban will spend the summer on the road with Jake Owen.  While Keith was familiar with Jake’s music, the two really had never met.  So Keith invited Jake to an intimate dinner party at Keith & Nicole’s Nashville house.  Jake described it this way: “I got a text from him inviting me to his house, and it was a catered Italian dinner, I guess it was a gift from Nicole to Keith.  I was like a sponge soaking up this experience, because I walk in and there’s Reba standing there, there’s Sheryl Crow, Kenny’s there, and all of a sudden I felt like, wow!  But what I thought was so cool was there was a long table for dinner there were name tags for where we were going to sit.  Nicole was at the end of the table, and I assumed Keith was going to sit next to her.  But Keith had his name tag next to me, so he sat next to me all dinner long so he could catch up with me and figure me out.  We just talked about everything, and that made me realize I wanna be like that.  He just seems very present and happy with where he is now, and I think that’s something to strive for.”

On Friday night, Keith invited Jake on stage to sing together on Jake’s hit, “Don’t Think I Can’t Love You.”  I like when there’s genuine comeradery on a tour, for the people coming to the show so they don’t think it’s just the opening act, that there’s a connection between the two, and Jake’s got that vibe about him so it’s easy to bond with him, and I thought tonight would be a good way to do that.”

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