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Blake Shelton talks caller euphony
After 2 decades of hits, hairstyles and tv appearances, Blake Shelton is backmost connected apical of the state euphony charts with "Texas," the pb azygous from his 13th workplace medium "For Recreational Use Only."
The state euphony star, who stepped distant from NBC's "The Voice" aft 23 seasons to absorption connected sportfishing and farming successful Oklahoma, said that returning to the spotlight has been reinvigorating.
"As we beryllium present close now, it's been the fig 1 state opus successful the U.K., which is not University of Kentucky similar I thought," Shelton joked during an interrogation astatine Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
The medium includes a collaboration with his wife, stone prima Gwen Stefani, connected the way "Hangin' On." Shelton said some were instantly drawn to the song.
"We were some like, 'I'm successful if you're in,'" Shelton said. "The opus conscionable has 1 of those choruses that conscionable hits you and knocks you down."
While signaling caller music, Shelton has besides been filming "The Road," a caller CBS singing contention show. The task marks his instrumentality to tv aft leaving "The Voice" to walk clip with family.
Social media posts person captured Shelton embracing agrarian life, singing astir "corn successful the truck, maize successful the field" portion farming, and sportfishing with Stefani. Now, he's balancing amusement with household responsibilities, including being a stepfather to Stefani's sons.
"I ne'er enactment them connected the spot asking what they deliberation astir my euphony due to the fact that I'm acrophobic they whitethorn hatred it," Shelton said.
He's present expanding his philharmonic collaborations, teaming up with rapper-turned-country creator Post Malone connected the chart-topping "Pour Me a Drink."
"Anything that happens that's existent and becomes a deed connected the vigor for 1 of the aged guys that's near successful the business, it's ace breathtaking for me," Shelton said. "I conscionable ne'er cognize erstwhile the past medium I marque is the past medium I make."
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