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If I'm honest / Blake Shelton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 555352-2 | Warner Bros.Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Nashville, Tenn. : Ten Point Productions, Inc. ; Warner Bros., [2016]Copyright date: ℗2016Description: 1 audio disc (51 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • performed music
Media type:
  • audio
Carrier type:
  • audio disc
Other title:
  • If I am honest
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Straight outta cold beer -- She's got a way with words -- Bet you still think about me -- Every time I hear that song -- Came here to forget -- Every goodbye -- It ain't easy -- A guy with a girl -- Go ahead and break my heart (featuring Gwen Stefani) -- Friends (from the Angry Birds Movie) -- One night girl -- Doing it to country songs (featuring The Oak Ridge Boys) -- Green -- You can't make this up -- Savior's shadow.
Production credits:
  • Produced by Scott Hendricks.
Performed by Blake Shelton ; with featured and assisting musicians.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Dr. James Carlson Library CD COUNTRY Shelton, Blake Available 33111008660835
Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD COUNTRY Shelton, Blake Available 33111008660843
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Blake Shelton veered toward the somnolent on the quite pleasing Bringing Back the Sunshine so it's not entirely surprising its 2016 sequel, If I'm Honest, is a bit crisper and livelier. Some of this brightening in attitude may be due to him lightening his load following a much-publicized 2015 divorce from singer Miranda Lambert -- certainly the title suggests it's time for the singer to get down to what's real -- but the electronic sheen and good times also feel like a reaction to Shelton sliding too deeply into softness. If If I'm Honest is indeed a divorce album, it's a Back in the High Life, not a Blood on the Tracks: Shelton is seizing the day, embracing his new lease on life with renewed vigor and a new love, who just happens to stop by to sing "Go Ahead and Break My Heart." Gwen Stefani's presence offers a reminder that Shelton stars on the televised singing competition The Voice, and If I'm Honest is targeted more at the mainstream audience attracted by the show than country radio proper. That's evident not only on "Go Ahead and Break My Heart," which is an adult contemporary hit by any other name, but also a song featured in The Angry Birds Movie ("Friends," a pop tune graced by banjo), a preponderance of glimmering ballads, and smirking good-old-boy humor. Shelton usually has enough swagger to let these jokes land with a crooked smile, evidenced by the heavy-handed wordplay of "She's Got a Way with Words" and the not necessarily pro-environment puns of "Green." Shelton remains appealing when he raises a little hell but like Bringing Back the Sunshine before it, If I'm Honest is at its core a balladeer's record, and Shelton pulls off these romance tunes with a sly, masculine grace that complements the album's sleek modern surfaces. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Some songs co-written by Blake Shelton.

Title from disc label.

Performed by Blake Shelton ; with featured and assisting musicians.

Produced by Scott Hendricks.

Recorded at Ocean Way Studios and Sound Stage Studios.

Full credits on container insert.

Compact disc.

Straight outta cold beer -- She's got a way with words -- Bet you still think about me -- Every time I hear that song -- Came here to forget -- Every goodbye -- It ain't easy -- A guy with a girl -- Go ahead and break my heart (featuring Gwen Stefani) -- Friends (from the Angry Birds Movie) -- One night girl -- Doing it to country songs (featuring The Oak Ridge Boys) -- Green -- You can't make this up -- Savior's shadow.

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