★★★★★
Coming in at six songs and a lean 22:30 run-time, Blake Shelton's All About Tonight is what I imagine being in the studio audience for an average sitcom would be like. There are those archetypal characters--the mean father-in-law, the sensitive cowboy--and perhaps a actually funny and heartfelt love story or two--fiancé Miranda Lambert guests on the standout track, "Draggin' The River...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
John Deere tractors, blue-collar jobs and good-hearted women are the stuff typical country albums are built around, and the latest offering from WB artist Blake Shelton is no exception. Full of cleverly crafted, albeit sometimes predictable, mid-tempo numbers, Startin' Fires glorifies a life full of "bare feet," "fishing" and "backwoods"-all rendered with nostalgia in his tune "Home Sweet Home...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
When announced last fall that they'd sit out the current season of "The Voice" -- which premiered Monday night on NBC with and Usher as the new judges -- both singers said they planned to spend more time focusing on music...
- www.latimes.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
The star has never burned brighter for Blake Shelton than it does as the time of the release of Based On A True Story..., the first album released by The Voice mentor after his monumental CMA Entertainer of the Year award from 2012. It's a time in his life where everything is seemingly golden and great and throughout the course of the record, it's pretty evident as there aren't many sad songs on the record (actually there's only one). It's just where he is in his life...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Country superstar/"Voice" coach Blake Shelton is all about getting personal on "Based On A True Story...," his seventh studio album to date. "Every song on the album, I've either been through those situations, or I'm going through them right now," Shelton admitted. Among the most relevant in Shelton's life at the moment are cuts like "Doin' What She Likes" and "Ten Times Crazier...
- www.billboard.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
On NBC's singing competition "The Voice" -- which, wouldn't you know, returned Monday, the day before this album's release -- Shelton is likable, funny, and more thoughtful than is required of a reality show. Between his perch in the big red swivel chair and his recent ACM/CMA triumphs, Shelton is the reigning king of pop country and he's wearing it well...
- www.bostonglobe.com
2013-04-20
★★★★★
For many artists, making a christmas album is a labor of love and/or a dream come true. And that's clearly the case with Blake Shelton's first Yuletide collection Cheers, It's Christmas. The 14 song collection features guests including friends Reba McEntire, Kelly Clarkson, Xenia, Michael Buble, Pistol Annies, his wife Miranda Lambert and his mother Dorothy Shakleford on a special song they co-wrote, "Time For Me To Come Home...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-11-29
★★★★★
The New York Times and New Yorker discovered this Okie from Ada after he topped the Billboard charts with his eighth album in just ten years. The path to mainstream exposure was no doubt aided by his marriage to Texan star Miranda Lambert, not to mention a permanent judging role on hit TV series The Voice. Unlike his singing spouse, Shelton didn't write his string of ten number one hits - instead, he draws from a vast pool of writing talent...
- www.beat.com.au
2011-09-26
★★★★★
Click to listen to Blake Shelton's Red River Blue Blake Shelton is probably the most famous country singer in America right now - but not for his music. As the handsome, heart-on-sleeve papa bear of The Voice, NBC's hit American Idol knockoff, Shelton is the butch Southern analog to Idol's Steven Tyler: cracking wise, hooting for his teammates, eyes welling up when he describes how close he feels to them...
- www.rollingstone.com
2011-08-01