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The Ranch
Origin	Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Genres	Country
Years active	1997
Labels	Capitol
Associated acts	Dixie Chicks
Former members
Peter Clarke Jerry Flowers Keith Urban

The Ranch was a three-member country music band, formed by New Zealand-born country artist Keith Urban in 1997. Urban served as the band's lead vocalist, in addition to playing guitar, ganjo, and keyboards. Jerry Flowers sang harmony vocals and played bass guitar, and Peter Clarke played drums.^[1]

The band recorded only one album and charted two singles on the country charts before disbanding in 1998. Besides its two singles, The Ranch included a song entitled "Some Days You Gotta Dance", which was later released as a single by the Dixie Chicks from their 1999 album Fly, and which also featured Urban on guitar. Urban later started a solo career on Capitol Records. The Ranch's album was re-issued in 2004 on Capitol/EMI as Keith Urban in The Ranch.

Contents 1 The Ranch (1997) 1.1 Track listing 1.2 Personnel 1.2.1 The Ranch 1.2.2 Guest musicians 1.3 Chart positions 1.4 Singles 1.5 Music videos 2 References

[edit] The Ranch (1997)

The Ranch
Studio album by The Ranch
Released	1997
Recorded	1997
Genre	Country
Length	43:01 (original release)
Label	Capitol
Producer	Miles Copeland, Carlton "Santa" Davis, Monty Powell, Keith Urban
Professional reviews
Allmusic - link Country Weekly – link (re-release)
2004 re-release (Keith Urban in The Ranch)
Re-release cover

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Keith Urban and Vernon Rust except where noted.

1. "Walkin' the Country" – 2:56
2. "Homespun Love" – 2:44
3. "Just Some Love" (Cyril Lawson, Scott Phelps) – 3:18
4. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" (Marshall Morgan, Troy Johnson) – 2:29
5. "My Last Name" – 3:48
6. "Desiree" – 5:49
7. "Freedom's Finally Mine" – 3:51
8. "Hank Don't Fail Me Now" – 3:03
9. "Tangled Up In Love" – 3:51
10. "Clutterbilly" (Urban, Peter Clarke, G. M. Holden) – 2:41
    • instrumental
11. "Man of the House" (Rust) – 4:13
12. "Ghost in the Guitar" – 4:11
13. "Stuck in the Middle" (Gerry Rafferty, Joe Egan) – 3:50¹
14. "Billy" (Gary Burr, Monty Powell, Urban) – 3:46¹

¹Bonus tracks, featured only on 2004 re-release.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] The Ranch

• Peter Clarke – drums, percussion, hand claps
• Jerry Flowers – bass guitar, background vocals, hand claps
• Keith Urban – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, ganjo, keyboards, lead vocals, hand claps

[edit] Guest musicians

• Randy Flowers – hand claps on "Some Days You Gotta Dance"
• Gary Gazzaway – horns on "Clutterbilly"
• Tony Harrell – Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer and glockenspiel on "Desiree", piano on "Ghost on the Guitar"
• Jim Horn – horns on "Clutterbilly"
• Charlie McMahon – didgeridoo on "Billy"
• Johnny Neel – Hammond B-3 organ on "Just Some Love", "Freedom's Finally Mine", "Stuck in the Middle"
• Richard Nord – guest vocals on "Homespun Love"
• Buck Reid – pedal steel guitar on "Man of the House"
• Eric Silver – fiddle on "Just Some Love"
• Joe Spivey – fiddle on "My Last Name"
• Vernon Rust – guest vocals on "Homespun Love"

Strings on "Ghost in the Guitar" performed by the Nashville String Machine, conducted by Carl Marsh, arranged by Carl Marsh, Monty Powell and Keith Urban.

[edit] Chart positions

Chart (2004)	Peak position
Billboard Top Country Albums	34

[edit] Singles

Year	Single	Chart Positions
		US Country	CAN Country
1997	"Walkin' the Country"	50	65
1998	"Just Some Love"	61	92

[edit] Music videos

Year	Title	Director
1997	"Walkin' the Country"	Roger Pistole
	"Clutterbilly"

[edit] References

v • d • e Keith Urban Studio albums Keith Urban (1991) · Keith Urban (1999) · Golden Road (2002) · Be Here (2004) · Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing (2006) · Defying Gravity (2009) Compilation albums Keith Urban in The Ranch (1997) · Days Go By (2005) · Greatest Hits: 18 Kids (2007) U.S. Singles "It's a Love Thing" · "Your Everything" · "But for the Grace of God" · "Where the Blacktop Ends" · "Somebody Like You" · "Raining on Sunday" · "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" · "You'll Think of Me" · "Days Go By" · "You're My Better Half" · "Making Memories of Us" · "Better Life" · "Tonight I Wanna Cry" · "Once in a Lifetime" · "Stupid Boy" · "I Told You So" · "Everybody" · "You Look Good in My Shirt" · "Sweet Thing" · "Kiss a Girl" · "Only You Can Love Me This Way" · "'Til Summer Comes Around" Guest singles "The Twelfth of Never" · "Funky Tonight" · "In God's Hands" · "Start a Band" Related articles Discography · Capitol Nashville · The Ranch