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Billboard (Feb. 13th 2010)

Blake Shelton is nothing if not a realist. "I can look at SoundScan and want to slit my wrists, not just for me, but for the entire industry," he says. "You can either try something new or you can go with what you already know isn't working. So I'm all about being a guinea pig."

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Music Row (January 2010)

Blake Shelton’s journey to country stardom starts way back in his high school days in Oklahoma, when he was part of the entertainment for an event in hometown Ada honoring acclaimed Nashville songwriter Mae Axton.

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CMA Close-Up (2010)

When country fans talk, artists listen. So when fans kept asking Blake Shelton when he was going to put out a new album, their hopeful refrain kept hammering away at him.

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