Blake Shelton Still Relies on Nashville’s Best
His Next Album Is Packed With Songs From Other Writers
When David Kent and Kirsti Manna pitched “Austin” to Blake Shelton, they were unknowns. And so was he.
But that all changed when Shelton recorded it, released it as his debut single in 2001 and took it to the top of the charts.
“They took a chance on me. I took a chance on them,” Shelton said in a new Facebook video. “When the right artist gets the right song, it can change the course of someone’s life forever. And it did for me.”
Fast forward 16 years, and Shelton is wrapping up the music on his
next album — joking that it feels like his 200th album — and explains
why he only wrote one song on it.
“I’ve got one song on there that I wrote, and the rest are all from
other writers in Nashville because I’m always hearing something that
blows me away,” he said. “I love being a songwriter, but I am more
excited about making a great album. I’m gonna be honest with myself, and
the only way to do that is to lean on the incredibly talented writers
in Nashville.”
In the early days, when Shelton took his first real music industry
job, he was a staff songwriter. But he never really considered himself a
great one.
“The reason is because there are so many incredible songwriters in
Nashville that I can’t even begin to compare my songs to the work that
they put out and the brilliant songs that these writers come up with,”
he said, “time and time and time again.”
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