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Blake Shelton talks with Katie Neal at the 2024 CMA Awards Radio Row!

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00:00How are you?

00:03Man, I'm great.

00:04I'm happy to be here.

00:05I haven't been to one of these things in, I don't know, maybe 10 years or something.

00:10Well, that's why we've never met.

00:12Probably so.

00:13Are you excited to watch your buddy Luke Bryan host?

00:14No.

00:15Oh, my God.

00:16What an idiot.

00:17Right?

00:18Like, how does he keep getting the job?

00:19I think because people love to watch, you know, Trainwreck on TV.

00:24I'm going to tell him you said that.

00:25Yeah.

00:26But I'm excited about Lainey.

00:28I think she's incredible.

00:30I'm a huge fan of hers.

00:33And of course, Peyton is so funny.

00:35And Luke's funny, too.

00:36I got to give it to him.

00:38They got the right combination there.

00:39They did.

00:40That's good.

00:41Right?

00:42You've got new music out, Texas.

00:43Talk to me about this.

00:44Are you having so much fun, like, having this new release and seeing how everybody's reacting

00:46to it?

00:47I really am.

00:48I was nervous, you know.

00:52It's been a while since I released any new music, you know.

00:57When I retired from The Voice, I just kind of, like, went away.

01:02Well, you were on there a long time, so you needed a minute.

01:0623 seasons I was on that show.

01:09And so I was happy to get a break.

01:12And then, you know, this spring I got that Post Malone reached out to me and asked if

01:19I would be on the record with him.

01:21And then that thing took off.

01:23And now here I am making my own music again.

01:26And I'm fired up about it.

01:27I really am.

01:28I'm just trying to take it all in this time around, you know.

01:34The first chapter of my career, which I think goes from 2001 to probably 2021 or 22 is kind

01:44of a blur to me, you know.

01:46And to be able to kind of relaunch again and know how hard it is in this business to have

01:53success and to have a hit song.

01:56And I'm really enjoying kind of slowing down this time and taking it in and enjoying these

02:02moments for what they are.

02:04Because not a lot of people get to experience it, you know.

02:06And so I really am having a blast with it this time around.

02:10Good.

02:11I'm glad.

02:12The last time we talked, you were saying how, like, working with Post kind of, like, reinvigorated

02:14you to get back out there.

02:17It did.

02:18It did.

02:19And, you know, I felt like I'd kind of gotten lazy, you know, and I'd kind of taken for

02:26granted what I do, you know, because I had been on the I've been saying on the hamster

02:32wheel for so long that you just kind of forget, like, man, when you were when I was a kid,

02:39I dream.

02:40My only dream was being on the radio, you know.

02:44And I mean, the very small lottery winning percentage of people get to do this, you know.

02:52And but being around Post, it was like, look at this kid, man.

02:56He's the biggest star in the world.

02:58He couldn't be more excited about what he does.

03:01And what am I doing?

03:02This is this is what I do.

03:03And I really do credit him for for firing me up about it again, you know, and wanting

03:08to make some more music.

03:09And as long as people want it and want to at least hear it and give me a chance, and

03:14it's actually literally stupid not not to do it, you know, exactly.

03:18What can you say about the rest of the music that you've been working on?

03:21I've got, you know, I wouldn't say a lot.

03:25I probably have an album's worth of music that recorded that I have.

03:30I don't think it's there yet.

03:32I'm going to keep recording and looking for songs until they tell me they got to start

03:37printing albums.

03:38I need to turn something in, you know, for sure.

03:40Well, you're going to have you've got new music out now.

03:41More coming, obviously. Your wife also just put out a new record.

03:44She did on Friday song for them, man.

03:47I've got a lot of there's a lot of favorite songs and I'm probably too close to the album

03:52because I literally was there when she come home and play me these songs as they were

03:58written, you know, and and then go into the studio with her and watching her, you know,

04:02record the stuff here in Nashville with Scott Hendricks, you know, and from Purple

04:07Viruses to Bouquet and Marigolds.

04:11I mean, I can I have a lot of favorites.

04:13My favorite for a long time is what she ended up coming out with, you know, as the first

04:19first single, Somebody Else's Problem.

04:22But Bouquet is an incredible piece of piece of work, too.

04:26That's amazing. Well, listen, it's so good to see you.

04:28Thank you. So happy to hear like more new music and again, loving the single.

04:31Thank you so much. Have so much fun at the show.

04:33And thank you for coming to see us. Absolutely.

04:35Blake Shelton.

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