Keith Urban has performed with an eclectic group of musicians, including Alicia Keys, Bryan Adams, Al Green and Justin Timberlake. The latest to join that diverse list are the Counting Crows, as Keith teamed up with the rockers last Friday at Wisconsin's annual Summerfest concert event.

Even Keith, who is a huge fan of the band, admitted it was a bit of an odd pairing -- but a great one. "Yeah, I guess we've got our own things going on," he told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel with a laugh. "It's just the way it happened ... We didn't know about it until the gig was booked. I'm thrilled. I love those guys. It's really just Summerfest and their imaginative pairing, which I think is killer."

Friends on and off stage, Brad Paisley and Keith Urban took home the award for Collaborative Video of the Year for their hit single, 'Start a Band'.

"Brad called me up and he said he had a song he wanted me to play on," Keith said." I said absolutely. It was a blast."

"First of all, Martina is shorter than I thought," Brad joked of his labelmate Martina McBride. "What an honor to work with this guy (Keith). I think the world of you, and everybody here does, too."

Keith Urban describes his current Escape Together World Tour as part tour and part reality show. The country superstar says cameras are following him around all the time, capturing footage to be shown on the jumbo-sized screens during his concerts.

One aspect of being followed around constantly, both literally and figuratively, is dealing with misinformation that often gets reported as fact. Case in point: the recent rumors that Keith and wife Nicole Kidman planned to adopt a baby from Vietnam.

Although he's certainly no slouch himself, Keith Urban thinks the coolest guy in in country music these days is Jamey Johnson. During Keith's concert last month at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, he invited Jamey to the stage with him for a spontaneous rendition of his award-winning hit, 'In Color,' while Keith handled the harmonies. A special video of the pair's performance was created for Keith's official YouTube channel.

"That guy is just deeply, deeply authentic, and such a part of a sound I haven't heard in Nashville for a long time," Keith tells California radio station K-FROG.

Recent reports that Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman plan to adopt a baby from Vietnam are being strongly denied by a representative for the Oscar-winning actress.

"The report is not true," Nicole's rep, Catherine Olim, told E! News. "We have no idea who started the rumor, but it's fabricated."

The denial comes hot on the heels of reports from British and Australian tabloids that Keith and Nicole had approached Vietnamese authorities to begin the adoption process. Read the full story.

Are Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman trying for baby No. 2? If British and Australian tabloids are to be believed, the couple may be adopting a baby from Vietnam.

Britain's Daily Mail claims the couple have already approached Vietnamese authorities to begin the process. And in a cover story for the current issue of the Australian tabloid New Idea, the deputy of the Department of International Adoption at the Ministry of Justice in Hanoi, Dang Minh Dao, is quoted as saying, "Yes, Nicole Kidman wants a baby from Vietnam. We've been approached by the American Embassy."

'American Idol' helped turn Carrie Underwood into a country superstar. But don't expect reigning 'Idol' champ Kris Allen to follow the same career path.

In spite of the fact that he earned raves for his performance of Garth Brooks' 'To Make You Feel My Love' during the competition, and was joined by Keith Urban on Keith's hit, 'Kiss a Girl,' during the show's finale last week, country music clearly isn't where the 23-year-old's passion lies.

"That's not my cup of music and not the feeling that I want in my album," Kris said during a teleconference last week.