Blake Shelton will release fall album
Blake Shelton (The Oklahoman Archives photo)
As I mentioned in my column, record labels are continually adding to the list of fall releases coming out in advance of the holiday shopping season.
The latest country music star to be added to the fall slate: Ada native and Tishomingo resident Blake Shelton.
Warner Bros. Records has announced that Shelton will release his fifth album, “Startin’ Fires,” on Nov. 18.
“I’d like for this album to start some musical fires in some new fans and maybe fan the flames for loyal fans who have been with me for a while,” Shelton said in a news release. “So, I named it ‘Startin’ Fires’ – which comes from one of the songs on the album, ‘Good at Startin’ Fires.’”
The album’s first single is “She Wouldn’t Be Gone,” a powerful ballad to lost love written by Jennifer Adan and Cory Batten that is currently climbing the country charts. The label decided to move the album release up to November due to enthusiastic response to the single, according to www.blakeshelton.com. As of last month, the album was set for an early 2009 release.
“She Wouldn’t Be Gone” follows on the heels of Shelton’s fourth No. 1 single, “Home,” a track from his spring release “Pure BS Deluxe Edition” and features his girlfriend and fellow country star Miranda Lambert on backing vocals.
Shelton again teams with Lambert, who lives on a neighboring farm in Tishomingo, on “Startin’ Fires.” The couple, who embarked Friday on a co-headlining tour, co-wrote the song “Bare Skin Rug,” and Lambert also is featured on the track’s vocals.
Shelton co-wrote one other track on “Startin’ Fires,” “Here I Am” with Dean Dillon.
Acclaimed producer Scott Hendricks, who has worked with Brooks & Dunn, Faith Hill and Alan Jackson, produced most of the album, with Brent Rowan producing the track “This is Gonna Take All Night” and Bobby Braddock producing the song “I Don’t Care.”
“Startin’ Fires” will be Shelton’s second release of the year, following May’s “Pure BS Deluxe Edition,” a re-release of his 2007 “Pure BS” with three additional tracks, including “Home.”
A multi-platinum-selling artist, Shelton started his musical ascension with his 2001 self-titled debut, for which Radio & Records named him the year’s breakthrough country artist. It also earned him multiple nominations for awards from the Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music.
His first No. 1 single, “Austin,” spent six weeks atop the charts, and he scored No. 1 hits with “The Baby,” “Some Beach” and “Home.”
He has notched several No. 1 videos, including “Ol’ Red,” “Heavy Liftin’,” “Some Beach,” “Goodbye Time,” Nobody But Me,” “Don’t Make Me,” “The More I Drink” and “Home.”
Shelton joins fellow Oklahoma country stars Toby Keith and Rascal Flatts, which includes Joe Don Rooney of Picher, releasing albums this fall. Keith’s “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy” and Rascal Flatts’ “Greatest Hits Volume I” are set for Oct. 28 release.
In addition, Oklahoma native Reba McEntire will release her box set “50 Greatest Hits” on Oct. 28.
Also, Carrie Underwood of Checotah will be featured on “Elvis Presley Christmas Duets,” which includes Presley’s holiday recordings reimagined as duets with current singers such as Underwood, Martina McBride and Amy Grant. It will come out Oct. 14.
Other country stars releasing albums this fall include Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney, Lee Ann Womack, George Strait, Trace Adkins and Billy Ray Cyrus.
The track list for “Startin’ Fires” is listed below. For more information, go to www.blakeshelton.com.
1. “Green”
2. “Good at Startin’ Fires”
3. “She Wouldn’t Be Gone”
4. “I’ll Just Hold On”
5. “100 Miles”
6. “Never Lovin’ You”
7. “Country Song”
8. “Home Sweet Home”
9. “This Is Gonna Take All Night”
10. “Here I Am”
11. “I Don’t Care”
12. “Bare Skin Rug”
-BAM
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