{"id":1317323,"date":"2019-12-18T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1815838"},"modified":"2019-12-18T14:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:23:58","slug":"baby-were-amazed-by-jake-hoot-the-new-champ-of-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/baby-were-amazed-by-jake-hoot-the-new-champ-of-the-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby, We\u2019re Amazed By Jake Hoot, the New Champ of The Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:686381?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\"> by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\"><br \/>\n49m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlhRKDBBGPU?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlhRKDBBGPU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can almost always count on country songs \u2014 the very, very best ones \u2014 to remain timeless forever and ever. Meaning, you can take one that is 20 years old, from a band that\u2019s no longer on the radio every day, sing it on <em>The Voice <\/em>and people will discover it all over again. Or sometimes, for the very first time. <\/p>\n<p>Which is exactly what happened when Jake Hoot sang Lonestar\u2019s 1999 ballad \u201cAmazed\u201d and was crowned the winner of this 17th season of <em>The Voice <\/em>on Tuesday night (Dec. 17).<\/p>\n<p>But Hoot, 30, didn\u2019t just pluck an old country song from obscurity that one time. In fact, the Cookeville, Tennessee native made a habit of leaning on older country hits since day one. And it worked. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout the season, Hoot performed Trace Adkins\u2019 \u201cEvery Light in the House,\u201d Rhett Akins\u2019 \u201cThat Ain\u2019t My Truck,\u201d Reba McEntire\u2019s \u201cYou Lie,\u201d Willie Nelson\u2019s \u201cAlways on My Mind\u201d and Loggins &amp; Messina\u2019s \u201cDanny\u2019s Song.\u201d All great picks from a different era. (He did modern country as well, when he used Luke Combs\u2019 \u201cWhen It Rains It Pours\u201d for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/the-voice\/video\/jake-hoot-performs-when-it-rains-it-pours-the-voice-blind-auditions\/4039714\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">blind audition<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>But his choice of \u201cAmazed\u201d really struck a chord with the voters and viewers, just like it did when the band released it in the late 1990s and it went on to be their longest-lasting No. 1 single and biggest hit. It was written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo, and Chris Lindsey. The oft-covered love song even made it into a <em>CMT Crossroads<\/em> earlier this year. Brett Young and Boyz II Men covered the song flawlessly, as if it was their own.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:3f795004-7a1d-4f59-9bb4-ea235aa7994d\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lonestar \u2014 currently made up of Richie McDonald, Michael Britt, Keech Rainwater and Dean Sams \u2014 continues to make music and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonestarnow.com\/tour.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">play the road.<\/a> They have four more tour stops before the end of this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-skFgrV59A?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x-skFgrV59A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\"> Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1815838\/baby-were-amazed-by-jake-hoot-the-new-champ-of-the-voice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 49m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. You can almost always count on country songs \u2014 the very, very best ones \u2014 to remain timeless forever and ever. Meaning, you can take one that is 20 years old, from a band that\u2019s no longer on the radio every day, sing it on The Voice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1317323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 17:50:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}