After singing the undying classic “Pink Houses” with John Mellencamp at the 2015 CMA Awards, Keith Urban took the stage solo to sing his Ripcord single “John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16.” It was cool seeing Urban sing about Mellencamp after sharing the stage with him.
As for those other two Johns, there were no tractors in sight (at least on stage — we can’t speak to the parking lot) but there were plenty of shout-outs to the good Lord at the CMAs (John 3:16 refers to the oft-quoted Bible verse, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”).
“Ain’t that America,” indeed.