Keith Urban covers Sabrina Carpenter's “Espresso” on “Tonight Show”

Keith Urban has great taste in music!

The 56-year-old country singer surprised viewers when he spontaneously performed Sabrina Carpenter's summer hit “Espresso” during his appearance on the US television series “Espresso”. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote his new album High on Tuesday, September 24th.

The special appearance came after host Jimmy Fallon praised Urban for his cover performances on the show. “One of the things I love about you is that you do covers,” he said, referring to Urban's renditions of songs by Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande.

“How do you choose which cover songs you’re going to do?” he asked the singer.

“I don’t know, just a well-written song,” Urban said. “I mean, Taylor's songs are all well-written, the bones are good… you can do any well-written song in almost any style.”

Fallon, 50, then asked, “Is there something ticking in your head right now?”

Urban responded, “Uh…you could do Sabrina Carpenter 'Espresso'…you could do that on a banjo or something,” as the audience cheered.

“I mean, this is the song of the summer,” Fallon said. “I mean, do you think you could do that with a banjo?”

Then Fallon pulled a banjo from behind his desk and handed it to him.

“Do you mean that seriously?” Urban asked. “You happen to have one!?”

“I mean, try it!” Fallon urged.

After a few seconds of fine-tuning the instrument and trying out a few notes, Urban launched into a country-inspired rendition of Carpenter's viral pop hit, singing the lyrics while playing the banjo as the audience clapped along.

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The “Blue Ain't Your Color” singer's cover of “Espresso” comes after he recently praised another pop singer – Swift.

In conversation with a British newspaper The timesUrban shared his admiration for the singer for navigating the spotlight.

“It's been remarkable watching Taylor grow in public because it's pretty brutal,” he told the outlet. “It feels like people have long since forgotten what she had to go through,”

“Just a trial by fire again and again – and getting stronger and stronger,” he added proudly.