{"id":2403,"date":"2025-04-18T09:28:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2025-04-18T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T09:28:06","slug":"blake-shelton-is-coming-in-hot-with-a-fiery-new-anthem-boldly-declaring-hell-stay-country-or-die-tryin-its-not-just-a-song-its-a-full-bl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton is coming in hot with a fiery new anthem, boldly declaring he\u2019ll \u201cStay Country or Die Tryin\u2019.\u201d It\u2019s not just a song\u2014it\u2019s a full-blown promise from a man who\u2019s sticking to his roots no matter what. With a new album dropping May 9, Blake\u2019s making it clear: he\u2019s not changing lanes, he\u2019s flooring it down the country road."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/countrymusicnation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/blake-country-trying-800x400.png\" alt=\"Blake Shelton, who knows how to stay country, performs on New Year's Eve in 2024.\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<h2>Blake Shelton Is Gearing Up To Release A New Album On May 9<\/h2>\n<p>Blake Shelton\u00a0is vowing to \u201cStay Country or Die Tryin\u2019\u201d as he prepares to release his new album next month.<\/p>\n<p>Last year (2024), Shelton\u00a0left his longtime label, Warner Music Nashville, and\u00a0signed a new deal\u00a0with BBR Music Group\/BMG Nashville.\u00a0<strong>Shortly after, he released a new single,\u00a0\u201cTexas,\u201d\u00a0which pays homage to\u00a0George Strait.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTexas\u201d was a smash success and helped Shelton\u00a0break a personal record, earning the highest number of first-week radio adds in his entire career. Now, several months after its release, \u201cTexas\u201d currently sits near the top of both of\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u2018s country charts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blake Shelton - Texas (Official Music Video)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jV2119sUQlo\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Then, in March, Shelton announced the upcoming release of his\u00a0first album in four years. Titled\u00a0<em>For Recreational Use Only<\/em>, the album is slated to be released on May 9, the day after the\u00a0<em>ACM Awards.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\"><\/div>\n<p>Shelton has since revealed the album\u2019s\u00a0full tracklist\u00a0and also released another song,\u00a0\u201cLet Him in Anyway.\u00a0The emotional track has Shelton speaking to God as he pleads for him to let a friend into heaven who \u201c<em>was just shy of redemption\u201d\u00a0<\/em>before he passed away.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blake Shelton - Let Him In Anyway (Official Audio)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvBOE4frDow\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Hear Blake Shelton\u2019s New Song, \u201cStay Country Or Die Tryin\u2019\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Now, with a little less than a month until he drops\u00a0<em>For Recreational Use Only<\/em>, Shelton has released another new song.\u00a0<strong>Titled \u201cStay Country or Die Tryin\u2019,\u201d it\u2019s the album\u2019s opening track.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shelton teased \u201cStay Country or Die Tryin\u2019\u201d in a video he shared on April 8. The clip shows him passionately singing the song onstage, expressing his country boy pride as he sings lyrics such as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIn God, we trust<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Detroit, we rust<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Redneck letter testifyin\u2019<\/em><br \/>\n<em>From the born in the cut<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Till the day that I\u2019m dust<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I\u2019ma stay country or die tryin\u2019.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DIMJhAVuNVF\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=675&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Flitaglobal.com&amp;rp=%2Flehieu%2Fblake-shelton-is-coming-in-hot-with-a-fiery-new-anthem-boldly-declaring-hell-stay-country-or-die-tryin-its-not-just-a-song-its-a-full-bl%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawJu-kdleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHnLGudeWPjePpfrT-#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A2211.1000000089407%2C%22ls%22%3A1635.7000000029802%2C%22le%22%3A2196.2999999970198%7D\" height=\"1005\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shelton spoke about his fiery new track in a press release cited by\u00a0<em>The Music Universe<\/em>. He said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWhen I heard \u2018Stay Country or Die Tryin,\u2019\u2019 it took me back to the first time I heard \u2018Ol\u2019 Red\u2019 or \u2018God\u2019s Country.\u2019 It\u2019s got so much energy and is full of those little catchphrases and things we say out in the country. I absolutely fell in love with it. I\u2019m proud of this recording \u2013 and I love singing it live even more. Hopefully, you\u2019ll come catch a show and sing it with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shelton released the full song on Friday (April 11).\u00a0<strong>Listen to it in the video below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-embed\" data-wpr-lazyrender=\"1\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blake Shelton - Stay Country Or Die Tryin' (Official Audio)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6eW_h7al4e0\" width=\"350\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"350\" data-origheight=\"235\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Shelton Is Gearing Up To Release A New Album On May 9 Blake Shelton\u00a0is vowing to \u201cStay Country or Die Tryin\u2019\u201d as he prepares to release&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow24.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}