April 28, 2025 • 11 mins
Blake Shelton is setting up a breand new album and he says he's enjoying ti just as much as he ever had. His relationship with Post Malone has motivated him to get back into the studio and record a bunch of new songs.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, Blake?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How you doing? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Life is good?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Wow? Like y'all? Studio is bad ass? Looking back there?
That is cool?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hey, you know what about this studio too? Let me
see if you recognize this place over here?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Where Wait a minute, it's not Oh my, is that
all right over there?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're This studio is in Jason el Dean's bar.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh you're kidding me. That's cool. I need do I
need to put a studio on mind?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So so I watch?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Uh, I watched to make sure your people are working
all day over Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good good.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Hey, I gotta say we we caught up.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Right when this new single was coming out.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And I've only been able to I meet Gosh, I
met you only once, uh, when you were coming through Vegas.
This is a long time ago, probably like seven eight
years ago. But there was something about getting to talk
to you when this single was coming out, that you
might be having the best time you've ever had making music.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It feels like, yeah, well, I don't know if it's
the best time. I would say it's equal to the
first time. And because I feel like those early days
before my first album came out and the excitement of
it for me because you know, I'd worked my entire
life to get to the point where I could put
(01:29):
out my first album, and then Austin came out and
had turned into a big hit, and I never expected
it to.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Be like that, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I mean I dreamed of it, but I just never expected,
like my first song to come out and do that.
And so because I had this hit on the radio
and my album wasn't even out yet, I just had
I was like a kid in a candy store, like
I couldn't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It was like I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Wait for people to get my record because when they
got it, I knew that there were songs on other
songs on there that that I felt strongly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
About, like old Red.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Old Red was also on that first album. It's like, man,
what about when they hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So I just had so much excitement and I have
that with this album. To your point, I have that
with this album. I'm giddy about it again and I
and I feel connected to those early days of just
like I'm so fired up and I can't wait for
people to get the record. And I got to say,
(02:29):
there's part of me that I hate this new way
that we released music where it's like those Instagram things
like we put at It's like no, no, no, no,
just let them get it all at once, you know
what I mean. It's like, well, that's not how the
business works, Blake, so shut up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I am.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I am excited for people to get the record and
hear it because I've been working on it for long, long,
like years I've been working on this record. I didn't
know it because I've been recording things here and there,
and I just didn't know what I was going to
do with the music. But it ends up being some
of this, Some of this music goes back, you know,
four or five years.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I will say the last time we caught up with
you was also on a zoom, except you were in
a much more gorgeous location. It was Gwen's zoom area.
I just want to ask, and you can tell me
to mind my business. Have you been kicked out of
the house now?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I did? I was today.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Look at this is the polar opposite of of the
of Gwenn's thing. This is the this has got all
my deer heads and stuff ended in here.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So it's the.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Opposite when for what, for some reason, she doesn't want
my taxidermy in her in her hang out room.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know what's wrong with her.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's well, we're gonna get a therapist involved, and we're
gonna just fix that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We'll just work it all out. There's got to be
some give and some and some back.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Deer horns laying around on my table here. There's none
of that at Gwen's office.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Uh. We were talking about the excitement you're having with
this new music man. Uh, you had put out there
was there was a couple of singles you put out.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Damn they were so good.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And when we when we caught up around that time,
you were like, this is fine, I'm okay doing this
right now.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What was the tipping point for you that did you like?
Screw it man, it's album time again.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Posts Malone was the tipping point for me working with
him last year on a couple of shows we did together,
shooting the video for for Me a Drink.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That guy.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Is so passionate about country music, and it really because
I had gotten so lazy and just lollygagging about my career. Honestly,
I mean, let's just call it what it is, you know,
and not focusing.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
On it, not to say like I should should.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Be, because I mean, I was doing exactly what I
wanted to do. I wanted to have some time and
and back off a little bit. But being around Post
was the reminder that, man, I'm the luckiest guy in
the world to get to do what I do. Just
a handful of people in the world get to do
what I do. You know, have make records and people
(05:10):
get to hear it, and and that's only going to
happen for a window of time. I mean, that's it
is what it is, that's the nature of the music industry.
And it made me realize, Man, I'm blowing it here,
like I need to focus. I need to take another
hard swing it at making the best country album I
can make, cause why wouldn't I. I mean, I'm going
(05:31):
to regret this someday if I don't. And so that's
really what lit the fire under me, was just being
around him and his passion, his excitement for for country
music and the way I used to be when I
was his age.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know, the album is coming May ninth, I was.
I was looking up some info about it and getting
ready to talk to you. Obviously, Texas Massive sunk let
him in anyway, I got about.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Halfway through before I was like, well, hang on, now,
what the hell? Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
What else can what else can we expect from this album?
I know that the details are kind of under wraps
right now, but not really.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I mean, I have I have a song on there
that I'm besides letting them in anyway, which I think
is just an incredible piece of music. Think, thank God,
that's that's hearty by the way, no shock.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
To anybody, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
But uh, I have a duet with with Gwynn on
the album, which I won't won't surprise anybody, but I'm
super excited about that that piece of music. I think
that's gonna be an important song on the album. Uh.
And something that's on there that I'm also really proud
of as a as a song that John Anderson wrote
(06:46):
called years that that John actually I got John. I
talked to him into coming into the studio and doing
a speaking part on the record at the end of
the song. And I just think John Anderson is one
of the greats of all time. And uh, and they
finally put him in the Hall of Fame last year,
which I was super excited to see that. And and
(07:07):
and and I know that was a big deal for him.
But he made He made an album that came out
during COVID that I had a duet on there with
him called Tuesday I'll Be Gone. But the name of
his album was a song called it Years and man,
I thought Years was the best best thing I'd heard
in a long time. And he wrote the song and
(07:28):
and I told him, I said, man if and when
I'm making an album, if it's cool with you, I
want to cut Years from from my album two. And
so I did, and it's the last song on this record.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm really proud.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Of the recording we did on it and the fact
that he came in and was a part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Knowing how your relationship has grown with with a guy
like post Malone and the inspiration that you've given him.
You gave him credit last time we talked as well
for kind of inspiring where you're at mentally.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Musically right now. Was he Was he a part of
the creation process? Did you? Did you invite him to
rights or recording or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, I can't. I can't roll with with posts for
more than a day.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I mean, he that probably I'd have to find me
in the hospital you know, if I spent more than
a day with posts, you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Know a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I only recorded probably six things or I guess, uh,
from last summer till now, because like I said, a
lot of this stuff I had recorded, I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I didn't have a home for it, you know, I
didn't know exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
What I was going to do with it, and a
lot of it I just needed to go in and
sing it or or you know, put the finishing touches
on it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
So uh no I left. I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I haven't played my post mylone card yet. One of
these days, though, I'm going to call in a call
in a favor and see if I can't, uh, you know,
get some kind of other collab with him, or or
some kind of project with him, because he is so
much fun. But I do have to limit the amount
of time because I don't know if I can take
it at this point in my life.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And we had we had Craig Morgan studio probably a
good week or two ago, and uh he had some
other some amazing They always say like I want people
to talk like me, talk talk about.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Me like that in a room I'm not in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And that was Craig talking about how amazing it is
to be friends with you and what this this tour
has been like. Who would you say to this day.
Obviously Craig probably one of them, Post is one of them.
Who are some of the guys and girls that you
would consider like more than just people doing country with you?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, Trace Atkins is literally like family family to me. Uh,
I just never I don't know anybody else in my
life that I have the kind of connection with another
human being like I do him. It's just like, you know,
you in your like this, I'm sure you have guys,
(10:00):
guys that are your buddies, and then you have guys
that are your brothers, you know. And and Trace traces
that guy for me, I mean, he just he just is.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean we we've been at.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
On rock bottom together, and we've been on top of
the mountain together, and there's a lot of a lot
of miles in between both of those places, as you know,
and and he's just been a part of all of
it for me, you know. And he's just been, uh,
you know, the best friend a guy can have.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
He really is.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
When it comes to what you want to do now
this summer, as uh as this tour raps.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We're getting ready to celebrate the new album.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
What's what are your plans the rest of the year
to get out and celebrate this new music.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Well, man, we have, you know, all the big things
that come up in the year.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
The ACM Awards are coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'm gonna go out there, and they asked me to
sing Texas, which you know, I again, it's another one
of those things that I'm super excited about because you know,
if you've been doing this as long as I have,
it's like you appreciate still getting those invites this far
into the game.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, I'm going to do go.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do the CMA Fest this year, and man, I don't
know what the hell else. Just at this point, I'm
just taking it as it comes and having fun with
it and trying not to. Honestly, I'm not going to
let it get too crazy this time, because I never
want to get to the point where I feel like
it's work again, because I love this balance that I
(11:38):
have right now, and I love my job and I
want to do it as long as I can, but
have fun with it at the same time.
What's up, Blake?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
How you doing? Man?
Speaker 1 (00:02):
Life is good?
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:03):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Wow? Like y'all? Studio is bad ass? Looking back there?
That is cool?
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Hey, you know what about this studio too? Let me
see if you recognize this place over here?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Where Wait a minute, it's not Oh my, is that
all right over there?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
We're This studio is in Jason el Dean's bar.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh you're kidding me. That's cool. I need do I
need to put a studio on mind?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So so I watch?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Uh, I watched to make sure your people are working
all day over Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Good good.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Hey, I gotta say we we caught up.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Right when this new single was coming out.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
And I've only been able to I meet Gosh, I
met you only once, uh, when you were coming through Vegas.
This is a long time ago, probably like seven eight
years ago. But there was something about getting to talk
to you when this single was coming out, that you
might be having the best time you've ever had making music.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
It feels like, yeah, well, I don't know if it's
the best time. I would say it's equal to the
first time. And because I feel like those early days
before my first album came out and the excitement of
it for me because you know, I'd worked my entire
life to get to the point where I could put
(01:29):
out my first album, and then Austin came out and
had turned into a big hit, and I never expected
it to.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Be like that, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I mean I dreamed of it, but I just never expected,
like my first song to come out and do that.
And so because I had this hit on the radio
and my album wasn't even out yet, I just had
I was like a kid in a candy store, like
I couldn't wait.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It was like I couldn't.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Wait for people to get my record because when they
got it, I knew that there were songs on other
songs on there that that I felt strongly.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
About, like old Red.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
Old Red was also on that first album. It's like, man,
what about when they hear that?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You know?
Speaker 4 (02:09):
So I just had so much excitement and I have
that with this album. To your point, I have that
with this album. I'm giddy about it again and I
and I feel connected to those early days of just
like I'm so fired up and I can't wait for
people to get the record. And I got to say,
(02:29):
there's part of me that I hate this new way
that we released music where it's like those Instagram things
like we put at It's like no, no, no, no,
just let them get it all at once, you know
what I mean. It's like, well, that's not how the
business works, Blake, so shut up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I am.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I am excited for people to get the record and
hear it because I've been working on it for long, long,
like years I've been working on this record. I didn't
know it because I've been recording things here and there,
and I just didn't know what I was going to
do with the music. But it ends up being some
of this, Some of this music goes back, you know,
four or five years.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I will say the last time we caught up with
you was also on a zoom, except you were in
a much more gorgeous location. It was Gwen's zoom area.
I just want to ask, and you can tell me
to mind my business. Have you been kicked out of
the house now?
Speaker 2 (03:23):
I did? I was today.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Look at this is the polar opposite of of the
of Gwenn's thing. This is the this has got all
my deer heads and stuff ended in here.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
So it's the.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Opposite when for what, for some reason, she doesn't want
my taxidermy in her in her hang out room.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know what's wrong with her.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's well, we're gonna get a therapist involved, and we're
gonna just fix that.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
We'll just work it all out. There's got to be
some give and some and some back.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Deer horns laying around on my table here. There's none
of that at Gwen's office.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Uh. We were talking about the excitement you're having with
this new music man. Uh, you had put out there
was there was a couple of singles you put out.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Damn they were so good.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And when we when we caught up around that time,
you were like, this is fine, I'm okay doing this
right now.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What was the tipping point for you that did you like?
Screw it man, it's album time again.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Posts Malone was the tipping point for me working with
him last year on a couple of shows we did together,
shooting the video for for Me a Drink.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That guy.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Is so passionate about country music, and it really because
I had gotten so lazy and just lollygagging about my career. Honestly,
I mean, let's just call it what it is, you know,
and not focusing.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
On it, not to say like I should should.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Be, because I mean, I was doing exactly what I
wanted to do. I wanted to have some time and
and back off a little bit. But being around Post
was the reminder that, man, I'm the luckiest guy in
the world to get to do what I do. Just
a handful of people in the world get to do
what I do. You know, have make records and people
(05:10):
get to hear it, and and that's only going to
happen for a window of time. I mean, that's it
is what it is, that's the nature of the music industry.
And it made me realize, Man, I'm blowing it here,
like I need to focus. I need to take another
hard swing it at making the best country album I
can make, cause why wouldn't I. I mean, I'm going
(05:31):
to regret this someday if I don't. And so that's
really what lit the fire under me, was just being
around him and his passion, his excitement for for country
music and the way I used to be when I
was his age.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know, the album is coming May ninth, I was.
I was looking up some info about it and getting
ready to talk to you. Obviously, Texas Massive sunk let
him in anyway, I got about.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Halfway through before I was like, well, hang on, now,
what the hell? Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
What else can what else can we expect from this album?
I know that the details are kind of under wraps
right now, but not really.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
I mean, I have I have a song on there
that I'm besides letting them in anyway, which I think
is just an incredible piece of music. Think, thank God,
that's that's hearty by the way, no shock.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
To anybody, I don't think.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
But uh, I have a duet with with Gwynn on
the album, which I won't won't surprise anybody, but I'm
super excited about that that piece of music. I think
that's gonna be an important song on the album. Uh.
And something that's on there that I'm also really proud
of as a as a song that John Anderson wrote
(06:46):
called years that that John actually I got John. I
talked to him into coming into the studio and doing
a speaking part on the record at the end of
the song. And I just think John Anderson is one
of the greats of all time. And uh, and they
finally put him in the Hall of Fame last year,
which I was super excited to see that. And and
(07:07):
and and I know that was a big deal for him.
But he made He made an album that came out
during COVID that I had a duet on there with
him called Tuesday I'll Be Gone. But the name of
his album was a song called it Years and man,
I thought Years was the best best thing I'd heard
in a long time. And he wrote the song and
(07:28):
and I told him, I said, man if and when
I'm making an album, if it's cool with you, I
want to cut Years from from my album two. And
so I did, and it's the last song on this record.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I'm really proud.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Of the recording we did on it and the fact
that he came in and was a part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Knowing how your relationship has grown with with a guy
like post Malone and the inspiration that you've given him.
You gave him credit last time we talked as well
for kind of inspiring where you're at mentally.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Musically right now. Was he Was he a part of
the creation process? Did you? Did you invite him to
rights or recording or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
No, I can't. I can't roll with with posts for
more than a day.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I mean, he that probably I'd have to find me
in the hospital you know, if I spent more than
a day with posts, you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Know a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
I only recorded probably six things or I guess, uh,
from last summer till now, because like I said, a
lot of this stuff I had recorded, I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I didn't have a home for it, you know, I
didn't know exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
What I was going to do with it, and a
lot of it I just needed to go in and
sing it or or you know, put the finishing touches
on it.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
So uh no I left. I didn't.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I haven't played my post mylone card yet. One of
these days, though, I'm going to call in a call
in a favor and see if I can't, uh, you know,
get some kind of other collab with him, or or
some kind of project with him, because he is so
much fun. But I do have to limit the amount
of time because I don't know if I can take
it at this point in my life.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And we had we had Craig Morgan studio probably a
good week or two ago, and uh he had some
other some amazing They always say like I want people
to talk like me, talk talk about.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Me like that in a room I'm not in.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And that was Craig talking about how amazing it is
to be friends with you and what this this tour
has been like. Who would you say to this day.
Obviously Craig probably one of them, Post is one of them.
Who are some of the guys and girls that you
would consider like more than just people doing country with you?
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Well, Trace Atkins is literally like family family to me. Uh,
I just never I don't know anybody else in my
life that I have the kind of connection with another
human being like I do him. It's just like, you know,
you in your like this, I'm sure you have guys,
(10:00):
guys that are your buddies, and then you have guys
that are your brothers, you know. And and Trace traces
that guy for me, I mean, he just he just is.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I mean we we've been at.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
On rock bottom together, and we've been on top of
the mountain together, and there's a lot of a lot
of miles in between both of those places, as you know,
and and he's just been a part of all of
it for me, you know. And he's just been, uh,
you know, the best friend a guy can have.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
He really is.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
When it comes to what you want to do now
this summer, as uh as this tour raps.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
We're getting ready to celebrate the new album.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
What's what are your plans the rest of the year
to get out and celebrate this new music.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Well, man, we have, you know, all the big things
that come up in the year.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
The ACM Awards are coming up.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I'm gonna go out there, and they asked me to
sing Texas, which you know, I again, it's another one
of those things that I'm super excited about because you know,
if you've been doing this as long as I have,
it's like you appreciate still getting those invites this far
into the game.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
You know, I'm going to do go.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Do the CMA Fest this year, and man, I don't
know what the hell else. Just at this point, I'm
just taking it as it comes and having fun with
it and trying not to. Honestly, I'm not going to
let it get too crazy this time, because I never
want to get to the point where I feel like
it's work again, because I love this balance that I
(11:38):
have right now, and I love my job and I
want to do it as long as I can, but
have fun with it at the same time.
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