BLAKE SHELTON ... true-to-your-school kind of relationship and connection to what country means as a fundamental-type thing. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STAY COUNTRY OR DIE TRYIN'") SHELTON: (Singing ...

BLAKE SHELTON: (Singing) She's probably in Texas. Amarillo, all I know. DETROW: That's the album's lead single, "Texas." Marcus Dowling covers country music for The Tennessean. He says this album ...

Country singer Blake ... SHELTON: (Singing) Seven generations from a dirt road corn crop, boots ain't ever seen easy street. DOWLING: People say a lot of things about the (ph) music, but the one thing ...