{"id":89993,"date":"2022-12-13T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=89993"},"modified":"2022-12-13T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:08:58","slug":"blake-shelton-has-no-plans-to-step-away-from-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/12\/blake-shelton-has-no-plans-to-step-away-from-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Has No Plans To Step Away From Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blake Shelton is stepping away from The Voice to focus on his family, but he has no plans to step away from Country music.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/blake-shelton-putting-family-first-barmageddon-cover-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He told People.com<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Walking away from music, you might as well just poison me or something. That&#8217;s not something I can go without. I can&#8217;t help it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, Blake hopes to spend his freed-up time focusing more on his music.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m enjoying watching what&#8217;s happening and putting a song out once in a while. That&#8217;s another reason that I&#8217;m excited to get some time back away from The Voice and concentrate more on, &#8216;What kind of record do I want to make? Is it going to fit in? Do I care? Do I not care?&#8217; I got a lot to figure out. But I&#8217;m not getting away from music! (Now) I can control the timing, and I&#8217;m not on anybody else&#8217;s schedule when it comes to making a record or touring. I can fit it in a way that makes more sense for us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blake will kick off his 2023 tour in February.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cl9fRnfu-cg\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton is stepping away from The Voice to focus on his family, but he has no plans to step away from Country music.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":88885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[484,2121,2072],"class_list":["post-89993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-gwen-stefani","tag-the-voice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 05:55:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/12\/blake-shelton-has-no-plans-to-step-away-from-country-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}