{"id":2642,"date":"2011-07-26T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:47:53","slug":"blake-shelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/blake-shelton\/","title":{"rendered":"BLAKE SHELTON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2643\" title=\"BLAKE-SHELTON-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLAKE-SHELTON-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLAKE-SHELTON-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/BLAKE-SHELTON-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>LAKE SHELTON<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Red River Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Warner Bros.]<\/p>\n<p>Blake Shelton, known outside the mainstream country world as resident cornball on NBC\u2019s <em>The Voice<\/em>, swarmed to the top of the charts recently with the hillbilly valentine \u201cHoney Bee.\u201d On <em>Red River Blue<\/em>, perhaps the most pop-sounding collection in his catalog, he works best when exposing the different shades of domestic partnerships. The harmonies of Nashville\u2019s leading women (\u201cI\u2019m Sorry\u201d with Martina McBride, \u201cRed River Blue\u201d with wife Miranda Lambert) draw a sharper focus to his stately Oklahoma drawl on songs of love gone wrong. Smart redneck rock anthems like \u201cGet Some\u201d and \u201cGood Ole Boys\u201d display his goofy side effectively, but the album\u2019s quality dips on more trite tales of rural-route life (\u201cHey,\u201d \u201cReady to Roll\u201d). Shelton\u2019s country soul truly shines when he colors outside his format\u2019s narrow grid. Exhibit A: the steel-laced \u201cSunny in Seattle,\u201d a clever homage to George Strait\u2019s classic \u201cOcean Front Property.\u201d \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLAKE SHELTON Red River Blue [Warner Bros.] Blake Shelton, known outside the mainstream country world as resident cornball on NBC\u2019s The Voice, swarmed to the top of the charts recently with the hillbilly valentine \u201cHoney Bee.\u201d On Red River Blue, perhaps the most pop-sounding collection in his catalog, he works best when exposing the different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2093,1636,2094,528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}