Keith Urban is so involved in the day to day of his career, he picked up the phone and asked for this up-and-comer to be his opening act himself.

In fact, he called Chase Matthew 's booking agent six times to lock the newcomer down for his High and Alive World Tour.

Matthew told Taste of Country Nights the epic story of how he found out he was going on tour with Urban. He heard the news from his Live Nation booking agent while he was already on the road with another A-list star.

"He came over to me on the Luke Bryan tour, he's like, 'Man,'" Matthew begins. "He's smoking a cigarette, he's like, 'Man, I gotta tell you something.'"

His storytelling is as dramatic as we imagine the moment was, as he takes fake puffs off a fake cigarette in between breaths.

"He goes, 'Man, you

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