Although perhaps no one is prouder to be an Okie than Blake Shelton, Texas has been particularly good to him of late. The country music mainstay recently scored his 30th No. 1 hit with “Texas,” the lead single off his forthcoming 13th album, For Recreational Use Only. And just recently, the former Entertainer of the Year climbed into his pickup truck and headed south to Frisco, where he will present at Thursday’s (May 8) 60th ACM Awards. Ahead of the ceremony, Shelton revealed he will also take the stage at the Ford Center at The Star to perform his latest chart-topping hit.
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Blake Shelton Talks ACM Awards Excitement
Severe rainstorms have battered North Texas and South Oklahoma this week, but Blake Shelton wasn’t letting anything keep him from this year’s ACM Awards ceremony.
“Just got in my truck and… freaking rain, went through the storm and I was excited when I crossed over into Texas,” the “Honey Bee” singer, 48, told Country Now. “It was like, wow, I’m literally going to Texas to sing ‘Texas’ at the ACM Awards, which is pretty cool.”
New Album Out This Week
Ironically, it was also a Lone Star-themed song that put Blake Shelton on the map 24 years ago. His debut single, “Austin,” spent five weeks atop the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 2001. But between his 12-year coaching stint on The Voice and other business ventures like his chain of Ole Red restaurants, the six-time ACM Award winner’s music career took an inevitable backseat. He hasn’t released an album in four years, since 2021’s Body Language.
That changes Friday, May 9, with the arrival of For Recreational Use Only. “Texas” is Shelton’s first single released under his new label, BBR Music Group/BMG Nashville and Wheelhouse Records. And he already sees parallels between the upbeat tune and his 2019 No. 1 hit “God’s Country.”
“Ken was telling me, I think how many years, five years since I’d had a number one song,” he said. “So to your point, I mean it is like a ‘God’s Country’ almost, because I was kind of starting to think, well, maybe that was it.”
