via Warner Music Canada
NASHVILLE, TN– Country music superstar Blake Shelton’s
deeply personal new album If I’m Honest is available for preorder now at
iTunes. Fans who buy the album before its May 20 release will get an instant
download of “Go Ahead and Break My Heart,” the special duet Shelton performed
with Gwen Stefani on The Voice May 9.
The Warner Bros.
Records/Warner Music Nashville release will be an Apple Music and iTunes
exclusive for digital downloads and streaming the week of release before going
out to all online outlets on May 27. Shelton has already shared several tracks
with fans. Lead singles “Came Here to Forget” and “Savior’s Shadow” are now at
Country and Christian radio – the beautifully bittersweet “Came Here to Forget”
is already Top 5 and destined to be Shelton’s 22nd No. 1 – and “Friends” is
part of The Angry Birds Movie soundtrack.
And tonight 16
million fans will see Shelton unveil song No. 4 in a very special performance
with Stefani, who co-wrote and recorded “Go Ahead and Break My Heart” with
Shelton. The two have been competing coaches on The Voice and Stefani served as
a mentor/advisor for Team Blake this spring as he goes for his fifth victory in
10 seasons.
Shelton considers If
I’m Honest the best album of his career and is excited to share the music with
fans in the run up to release. His 12th studio LP will lead off with “Straight
Outta Cold Beer,” the high energy cut that serves as a party-to-forget entry
point for the larger story If I’m Honest tells.
“Man, I love this
song because it’s basically just what we do,” Shelton said. “You go find
whoever’s got property that touches the river or the lake or a field somewhere
and just have a party out in the woods. I see these critics and bloggers saying
they’re tired of hearing about a tailgate and an ice chest and a campfire.”
The former CMA Entertainer of the Year and five-time Male
Vocalist of the Year is also excited for everybody to hear the way he and
producer Scott Hendricks meld genres on “It Ain’t Easy.”
“’It Ain’t Easy’ is a
song Rhett Akins sent over to me and I just fell in love with it because it
sounds like something they made at Muscle Shoals back in the day when that
earthy R&B sound was bleeding into country music,” Shelton said. “And so
when I heard it, it was like, ‘Whoa! This sounds like my heroes like Earl
Thomas Conley, Kenny Rogers and Con Hunley. That’s going to be a completely new
sound to the kids out there these days and I want to be the guy that gets to
showcase that feel and get it back out there again.’”
Shelton will share
more personal insights about his new music over the next two weeks as he
prepares to release If I’m Honest. Fans can also learn more about him when the
Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, opens Blake
Shelton: Based on a True Story on May 27. The exhibition will examine the
star’s road to success, from his childhood to his move to Nashville as a teen,
and from his multi-platinum recording breakthrough to becoming a national
celebrity. A range of artifacts, including stage wear, instruments, song
manuscripts, photos and personal items will help tell the story of Shelton’s
struggles and triumphs.
And he’ll hit the road on the fall leg of the 2016 Blake
Shelton Tour Presented by Gildan in September, kicking off the run in his home
state of Oklahoma. For tour dates, tickets and the latest news and information,
be sure to follow @blakeshelton on Twitter and stay tuned to www.BlakeShelton.com
If I’m Honest track
list:
1. Straight Outta Cold Beer
2. She’s Got A Way With Words
3. Bet You Still Think About Me
4. Every Time I Hear That Song
5. Came Here To Forget
6. Every Goodbye
7. It Ain’t Easy
8. A Guy With A Girl
9. Go Ahead And Break My Heart (Featuring Gwen Stefani)
10. Friends (from The Angry Birds Movie)
11. One Night Girl
12. Doing It To Country Songs (Featuring The Oak Ridge Boys)
13. Green
14. You Can’t Make This Up
15. Savior’s Shadow
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