Keith Urban has released his first ever holiday song, the bluesy, retro-sounding “I’ll Be Your Santa Tonight.”
Urban penned the song with Shane McAnally.
“I’ve always wanted to record a Christmas song, but I really wanted to try and write something new,” the country star explained, in a release. “So, Shane came to my house and we wrote, really, about a Christmas gone terribly wrong. No snow. Too much fog. Nobody can make it to the party.
“It’s going to be a colourless Christmas, until her man comes through.”
Urban released the song with a video, directed by Chris Hicky, that shows him playing piano, guitar and bass in a winter wonderland.
“I wanted to keep the video loose and a bit more performance-based than the actual story line,” he said, “because everybody has their own version of what a song should look like, so I didn’t want to touch on that too much.”
Check out the video below: