{"id":1302803,"date":"2019-01-24T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1802423"},"modified":"2019-01-24T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T18:30:55","slug":"blake-sheltons-motto-seems-to-be-have-bar-will-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/blake-sheltons-motto-seems-to-be-have-bar-will-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton\u2019s Motto Seems to Be \u201cHave Bar, Will Play\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 10m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

What good is a stage with your name on it if you don\u2019t take advantage of it once in a while?<\/p>\n

That must\u2019ve been what was on Blake Shelton<\/a>\u2019s mind on Wednesday (Jan. 23), when he spontaneously decided to put on a show at his Nashville Ole Red. According to the Tennessean<\/em>, Shelton said<\/a> that he was in the recording studio in Nashville when he came up with the idea for a pop-up show. \u201cI don\u2019t think Luke Bryan did this at his bar. What a dump. It\u2019s just a bunch of bro-country playing over there,\u201d Shelton joked about Bryan\u2019s 32 BRIDGE Food + Drink right across the street from Ole Red.<\/p>\n

There may or may not have been an official set list, but Shelton took the opportunity to reach way, way back for some of his oldest hits. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to do songs I think I should remember, and I think I\u2019m doing pretty good,\u201d he said. \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>\n

When I talked to Shelton last year for Cowboys & Indians<\/em>, he\u2019d told me<\/a> that he felt the same way about the Oklahoma Ole Red. \u201cOklahoma needs this. There are a lot of artists where I come from who would love to play at a venue like this. Because before it opened, unless someone was having a barbecue or there was a fair or something nearby,\u201d he explained, \u201cthere weren\u2019t many options for people who wanted to perform. It\u2019s been a real shot in the arm to a community that really needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shelton played for more than two hours, taking requests from the audience even when he struggled to remember all the lyrics from his nearly 20 years in the business. And there were a couple guest appearances: RaeLynn joined Shelton on stage for her \u201cGod Made Girls\u201d and their collaboration on \u201cBoys\u2019Round Here,\u201d and Pryor Baird and Shelton shared the stage for a cover of Merle Haggard\u2019s 1969 \u201cWorkin\u2019 Man Blues.\u201d Both are former contestants on The Voice<\/em>.<\/p>\n


Set List from Ole Red Pop-Up Show<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNeon Light\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n

\u201cAll About Tonight\u201d (2010)<\/p>\n

\u201cGuy with the Girl\u201d (2016)<\/p>\n

\u201cDoin\u2019 What She Likes\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n

\u201cSangria\u201d (2015)<\/p>\n

\u201cTurnin\u2019 Me On\u201d (2018)<\/p>\n

\u201cOl\u2019 Red\u201d (2002)<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Beach\u201d (2004)<\/p>\n

\u201cCame Here to Forget\u201d (2016)<\/p>\n

\u201cGonna\u201d (2015)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s Got a Way with Words\u201d (2016)<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Eyes\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n

\u201cLonely Tonight\u201d (2014)<\/p>\n

\u201cHillbilly Bone\u201d (2009)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll Name the Dogs\u201d (2017)<\/p>\n

\u201cI Lived It\u201d (2018)<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Time I Hear That Song\u201d (2017)<\/p>\n

\u201cSure Be Cool if You Did\u201d (2013)<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody But Me\u201d (2005)<\/p>\n

\u201cAustin\u201d* (2001)<\/p>\n

\u201cShe Wouldn\u2019t Be Gone\u201d (2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cDrink On It\u201d (2012)<\/p>\n

\u201cHome\u201d (2008)<\/p>\n

\u201cWho Are You When I\u2019m Not Looking\u201d (2010)<\/p>\n

\u201cMine Would Be You\u201d (2013)<\/p>\n

\u201cGoodbye Time\u201d (2005)<\/p>\n

\u201cHoney Bee\u201d (2011)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Baby\u201d (2002)<\/p>\n

\u201cPlayboys of the Southwestern World\u201d (2003)<\/p>\n

\u201cFootloose\u201d (2011)<\/p>\n

\u201cGod Gave Me You\u201d (2011)<\/p>\n

* Enjoy the official music video for Shelton\u2019s debut single, \u201cAustin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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