Opry.com’s Guide To What’s New In Country.
Cheer’s, It’s Christmas
Christmas may be a few months away, but Blake Shelton’s new album will make you want to put up the tree early.
The album features several guest appearances including: his wife Miranda Lambert, The Pistol Annies, Michael Bublé, Kelly Clarkson, long-time friend, Reba McEntire and a very special duet with his mother, Dorothy Shackleford.
Blake included classic Christmas songs that have touched him over the years as well a few originals. There are two brand new songs on the album that focus on Shelton’s Oklahoma roots. “Oklahoma Christmas,” which he performs with Reba, and “Time For Me To Come Home,” co-written by his mother.
“When I decided I wanted to make a Christmas album, one of the very first thoughts I had was I want to record a song that’s about Oklahoma and Christmas time and I would like for it to be a duet with Reba,” he said.
Track List (click here to purchase)
1. “Jingle Bell Rock” (featuring Miranda Lambert)
2. “White Christmas”
3. “Oklahoma Christmas” (featuring Reba)
4. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
5. “There’s A New Kid In Town” (featuring Kelly Clarkson)
6. “Santa’s Got A Choo Choo Train”
7. “Home” (featuring Michael Buble)
8. “Winter Wonderland”
9. “The Christmas Song”
10. “Blue Christmas” (featuring The Pistol Annies)
11. “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”
12. “Silver Bells” (featuring Xenia Martinez)
13. “Time For Me To Come Home” (featuring Dorothy Shackleford)
14. “The Very Best Time Of Year” (featuring Trypta-Phunk)
To help you get even more in the Christmas spirit, here are Opry members Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride with Julianne Hough:
Free The Music
Jerrod Niemann’s sophomore album Free The Music could not be more aptly named. This new record puts a spin on traditional country format and includes instruments not found in many of today’s country songs.
GACtv.com says, “Niemann knows his way around a lyric. Having written or co-written every song, the varying sounds showcase his talents through vastly different styles. It’s a wild musical exploration when Niemann gets behind the controls. Blurring genres and leaping boundaries, the new 12-song collection takes its title seriously with an envelope-pushing brand of country that mixes up a concoction of sound that includes honky tonk, pop, psychedelia and reggae – all with a 3-piece horn section.”
“This album is my interpretation of how I feel about country right now,” Jerrod says. “The pedal steel guitar has come to define country music, but there were years and years of country being made before that instrument was even invented. Horns have been in country going back to the 1920s. And fiddles and other string instruments date back even further. I took all those things and put them on Free The Music,” Jerrod explains. “I made this record in an effort to try and mix 1927 with 2027, but I didn’t want to disregard 100 years of what people have already done musically. Instead, I wanted to take that and do it in a way that is also representative of the future.”
The album’s first single “Shinin’ on Me” continues to climb the Billboard Top Country Songs chart, landing at No. 18 this week.
Track List (click here to purchase)
1. “Free the Music”
2. “Whiskey Kinda Way”
3. “Get On Up”
4. “I’ll Have to Kill the Pain”
5. “Only God Could Love You More”
6. “Shinin’ On Me”
7. “Honky Tonk Fever”
8. “Guessing Games”
9. “It Won’t Matter Anymore”
10. “I’m All About You” (feat. Colbie Caillat)
11. “Real Women Drink Beer”
12. “Fraction of a Man”
Watch Jerrod’s performance of “What Do You Want” on the Opry stage.
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