Keith Urban, Chris Stapleton, Vince Gill Kick Out the Multi-Guitar Jams at Country Radio Showcase
(WorldNews Music)

Country music doesn’t have a lot of superstar singer/songwriters who also happen to double as guitar heroes, but all three figures that fall into that rarefied category ended up trading licks Thursday at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Keith Urban was closing out a Universal Nashville showcase with “Blue Ain’t Your Color� when he was joined for an epic instrumental coda by Chris Stapleton and Vince Gill. Where Johnny Cash once kicked out the footlights, it was the jams that were suddenly being kicked out. Ironically, this electric finale was the conclusion of what was supposed to be an all-acoustic show, Universal’s eighth annual Ryman showcase for Country...