Just out of high school, Warner Bros. recording artist Blake Shelton left Oklahoma to move to Nashville. Back home at only 16 years old, Shelton had received statewide focus when he won the Denbo Diamond Award, the top award for young Oklahoma entertainers. In Nashville, Shelton was able to get several material published with Naomi Martin Music, Warner/Chappell Music, and Jerry Crutchfield music. Shelton turned his songwriting into a successful recording in 2001 with his debut single, “Austin”; the song eventually spent five weeks at number one. “All Over Me” and “Ol’ Red” followed in 2002, allowing Shelton’s record to go gold. His star power was on the rise and Shelton was as busy as ever. He wasted no time recording a follow-up release. The Dreamer appeared in February 2003, hot on the heels of the Top Ten single “The Baby.” A third album, Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill, was put forth in 2004, along with a DVD, Blake Shelton’s Barn & Grill: A Video Collection. In 2007 he put forth the cleverly titled Pure BS on Warner, came by Startin’ Fires in 2008.
Blake’s latest project is the release of a dual set of “six-packs”. Six tracks per CD at a slightly lower-than average price, including hit tracks like “Hillbilly Bone” featuring Trace Adkins. The “six pack” format bucks traditional album templates and sales models, while allowing fans to get new music more frequently.
The Official Music Video For Blake Shelton’s “Over.” Below is the official music video for Blake Shelton’s current single, “Over.” Below that is the last webisode for the Diary of a Director segment. Enjoy! Get More: Over, Blake Shelton, Blake Shelton Videos
A Behind The Scenes Look At Blake Shelton’s Music Video For “Over” Part 3. This is webisode 3 for this Diary of a Director series. The focus is the music video for Blake Shelton‘s latest single, “Over,” directed by Roman White. To see parts 1 and 2 CLICK HERE. As the first two did and I’m sure the last one will (tomorrow), Blake Shelton keeps me laughing with his “unique” sense of humor. Watch and you will see what I mean.
A Behind The Scenes Look At Blake Shelton’s Music Video For “Over.” CMT has a four-part webisode series running called Diary of a Director. The focus of this series is the music video for Blake Shelton’s new single “Over,” directed by Roman White. The webisodes are a behind the scenes look at the making of the video. Here are the first two webisodes and the next two will air on Wednesday (6/13) and Thursday (6/14) with the world premiere of the video on Friday (6/15)! Enjoy!
Jermaine Paul Is The Season 2 Winner Of The Voice! Although Jermaine Paul is not a country artist, his coach Blake Shelton, is through and through! On last night’s finale episode on NBC Paul took first over Juliet Simms (Team CeeLo), Tony Lucca (Team Adam) and Chris Mann (Team Christina). We would like to give the hugest round of applause possible for Jermaine and Shufflin’ Shelton! With Jermaine’s powerhouse-of-a-voice and Blake’s pure confidence, this team member is no longer a backup singer! Below is a video of the coach and team member giving fans a very soulful version of “Soul Man” that is sure to get you in the mood to groove! Below that is a heartfelt performance by Jermaine to Shelton singing his coaches hit, “God Gave Me You.” Congrats again to the success of everyone who was a part of this season!
Complete List of the 2012 ACM Awards Winners! Well, the 2012 ACM Awards have come and they have gone! It was an evening with some really great performances and our favorites include Blake Shelton, Chris Young, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown Band and in a taste of what’s to come with this summers Brothers of the Sun Tour, a duet from Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney! (Tell us your favorites below!). There was also the much talked about live wedding accompanied by a performance of “Marry Me” by Martina McBride and the lead singer of Train, Pat Monahan (reactions seem to be split between cute and creepy…what did you think?). And of courese there was plenty of humor with Blake not always being able to get through his scripted jokes, Reba being her usual fabulous and down to earth self, and Brad Paisley swapping his cowboy hat for a ZBB style cap! In case you missed it the complete list of winners is below! Be sure to tell us what you think! Don’t forget to go here to check out the complete list of off-camera award winners too! 47th Annual ACM Awards Winners Entertainer of the Year Taylor Swift Male Vocalist of the Year Blake Shelton Female Vocalist of the Year Miranda Lambert New Artist of the Year Scotty McCreery Vocal Duo of the Year Thompson Square Vocal Group of the Year Lady Antebellum Vocal Event of the Year (Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company): Don’t You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson (Broken Bow Records) Produced by: Michael Knox Video of the Year (Award to Producer(s)/Director(s)/Artist(s)): Red Solo Cup – Toby Keith Producer: Mark Kalbfeld Director: Michael Salomon Album of the Year (Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company) Four The Record – Miranda Lambert (RCA) Produced by: Chuck Ainlay, Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf Single Record of the Year (Award to Artist(s)/Producer(s)/Record Company) Don’t You Wanna Stay – Jason Aldean With Kelly Clarkson (Broken Bow Records) Produced by: Michael Knox Song of the Year (Award to Composer(s)/Publisher(s)/Artist(s)) Crazy Girl – Eli Young Band Composers: Lee Brice, Liz Rose Publishers: Cake Taker Music (BMI), Mike Curb Music (BMI), Sony/ATV Tree Publishing (BMI), Sweet Hysteria Music (BMI)
The Story Behind Blake Shelton’s Latest Single “Drink On It!” I don’t know about everyone else, but I have been in love with Blake Shelton’s “Drink On It” ever since Red River Blue came out last summer! The song is great and like nothing else that is on the radio right now. We at CMNB can’t wait for the video to come out, but until then we thought you might like to know a little more about the song from Blake himself! Here is a clip where Blake talks about how he got his hands on this little ditty!
Blake Shelton Is Set To Host The Second Annual NRA Country/ACM Celebrity Shoot! NRA Country and the Academy of Country Music announced that the Second Annual NRA Country/ACM Celebrity Shoot will take place on Saturday, March 31. ACM Entertainer of the Year nominee, Blake Shelton, will host the event, as well as co-host the Awards the following Sunday with Reba. The shoot will be part of The Week Vegas Goes Country, the week that leads up the 47th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards. The NRA Country/ACM Celebrity Shoot, presented by SoundGear by LaPierre, is a two course, 10 station, 40 target sporting clay competition for 20 teams of five shooters, including a celebrity captain. The event, emceed by Storme Warren, will take place at the Desert Hills Shooting Club. Celebrity participants include Lee Brice, Craig Campbell, Cowboy Troy, Ira Dean, Edens Edge, Craig Morgan, Jake Owen, Thomas Rhett, Outdoor Channel’s Lee & Tiffany Lakosky and Nick Mundt, TNA Impact Wrestling stars Jeff Hardy and James Storm and more! The Second Annual NRA Country/ACM Celebrity Shoot will support the Wounded Warrior Project, the Folds of Honor Foundation and the Nellis Air Force Base Youth Programs. “The Academy is thrilled to continue this partnership with Blake and NRA Country. Many traditions and values are shared among the country music and outdoor enthusiast communities – today we get to have a little fun together while paying our respects to the men and women of our armed forces at the same time.” -Bb Romeo, Chief Executive Officer of the Academy of Country Music
With Only Two Episodes In Of The 2nd Season, We Have Already Heard Some Stars! So if you didn’t know (you must be under a rock), the season premier of The Voice was Sunday after the Super Bowl. For the second season we are taking a journey with coaches Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Adam Levine and Cee Lo Green to find “the voice” that will take America by storm. It is obvious that everyone in the CMNB office is pulling for Team Blake, but any coach that gives us a country star will be just fine with us too! This year instead of teams of 8, the coaches will get to pick initial teams of 12! So far Team Christina has four of her spots taken with Chris Mann, Jesse Campbell, Lindsey Pavao and The Line (a duet). Team Adam has three spots filled with Angel Taylor, Kim Yarbrough and Tony Lucca. Cee Lo also has three team members, Angie Johnson, Jamar Rogers and Juliet Simms. Most importantly, Team Blake has three artists in the running! Gwen Sebastian, Jermaine Paul and RaeLynn have got to be excited to be on the funniest guys team right?! Next Monday, February 13, the “Blind Auditions” will continue! Don’t forget to tune into NBC at 8/7c to watch all of the comedy from the coaches and talent from the hopefuls unfold!
Blake Shelton and The Voice Mentors Get Funny for Superbowl Ad. It’s no secret that over the past few years, the Superbowl and its media extravaganza has become just as much about the ads that air during its prime airtime as it is about the actual game. NBC’s The Voice producers clearly weren’t about to miss out on this year’s golden opportunity to steal a little more limelight for the upcoming season of their hit series! Blake Shelton (clearly, our favorite mentor!), Adam Levine, Cee Lo Green and Christina Aguilera are back and kicking the season off right with a funny and action packed trailer for the season (with a special guest…). Check it out below, and make sure you catch up on last night’s season premiere if you haven’t already! 2012 The Voice Superbowl Ad [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OjVPRGD8ow]
Chris Young Has Earned His 5th Consecutive #1 Single! Chris Young has had a great deal of deserving success in the recent months. He has been nominated for Male Vocalist of the year and Single Record of the year for his hit, “Tomorrow,” for the 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards. Young has joined ACM Awards co-host and “The Voice” star Blake Shelton as one of only two solo artists to top Billboard’s Hot Country Song chart with their five most recent singles as “You” surges to the top this week. “I am ecstatic! I’ve been excited for each #1 and to have five in a row feels amazing.” -Young “You” was written by Young with Luke Laird, is the follow up to his #1 smash “Tomorrow” from his highly acclaimed third album NEON, which opened at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 in July of 2011. The song has racked up over 350,000 downloads. The singer/songwriter’s four previous chart toppers include “Tomorrow,” “Gettin’ You Home,” “Voices” and the title track to his 2009 gold certified sophomore album, The Man I Want To Be. Catch Young on tour with his labelmate, Miranda Lambert, on her On Fire tour!
