{"id":1219,"date":"2019-01-25T05:12:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2019\/01\/blake-shelton-plays-surprise-show-at-ole-red-nashville\/"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:56:51","slug":"blake-shelton-plays-surprise-show-at-ole-red-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/01\/blake-shelton-plays-surprise-show-at-ole-red-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Plays Surprise Show At Ole Red Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Shelton played a pop-up show at his own downtown Nashville venue, Ole Red, on Wednesday, January 23rd. He announced the show several hours in advance on Twitter, and as expected, the place was packed.<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1088271611491479554&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2019\/01\/24\/blake-shelton-brings-raelynn-pryor-baird-play-surprise-concert\/2665465002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to The Tennessean<\/a>, Blake played for two hours, creating a set list from audience suggestions. He let them in on the news that he\u2019s in the studio recording new music and decided that while he was in town, he should play a show.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI swear that\u2019s why we\u2019re down here. We\u2019ve got a tour about to start up, so it doesn\u2019t hurt for me relearn some of my old stuff. There\u2019s a good chance I could screw some of this up tonight. But who cares, man? Get a drink. Get me a drink. Get them a drink. Let\u2019s just have some fun.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to his own hits and album cuts, Blake covered Conway Twitty&#8217;s \u201cGoodbye Time\u201d and the hit movie theme song, &#8220;Footloose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was also joined on stage by former The Voice contestant RaeLynn who sang &#8220;God Made Girls,&#8221; as well as Pryor Baird, who got a four-chair turn on The Voice last year and was in the audience. Blake invited him up to perform a cover of Merle Haggard\u2019s \u201cWorking Man Blues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1088298759208009728&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Blake&#8217;s Friends &amp; Heroes tour with Lauren Alaina, Trace Adkins, the Bellamy Brothers and John Anderson kicks off on February 14th in Oklahoma City, OK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/srWf2RV1WzU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton played a pop-up show at his own downtown Nashville venue, Ole Red, on Wednesday, January 23rd. ","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36,62,280,243],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-nashville","tag-old-red","tag-raelynn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 14:48:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/01\/blake-shelton-plays-surprise-show-at-ole-red-nashville\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}