{"id":1318157,"date":"2020-02-10T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1817600"},"modified":"2020-02-10T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:00:37","slug":"world-premiere-pitbull-and-blake-shelton-are-ready-to-get-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/world-premiere-pitbull-and-blake-shelton-are-ready-to-get-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"WORLD PREMIERE: Pitbull and Blake Shelton Are Ready to \u201cGet Ready\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:688562?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 \/>\n11m ago<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ejdx6_hYTiY?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\/Ejdx6_hYTiY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>At some point when Blake Shelton and Pitbull crossed paths \u2014 likely at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pitbull\/status\/1018626847855165440?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">2018 Pendleton Whisky Music Fest<\/a> in Oregon \u2014 Shelton introduced his dog to Pitbull. The dog\u2019s name? Black Betty. Which rhymes with \u201cGet Ready.\u201d And so, the inspiration for a remix of an old song from the 1930s was born. <\/p>\n<p>While the rock band Ram Jam may have made \u201cBlack Betty\u201d famous in 1977, it was actually written about four decades earlier by Huddie \u201cLead Belly\u201d Ledbetter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4cn_woPvjQI?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\/4cn_woPvjQI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>Even though Ledbetter died in 1949, he\u2019s listed as a songwriter on the new collaboration, along with Jos\u00e9 Carlos Garcia (DJ Chino), Xenia Ghali, Jorge Gomez, Jimmy Th\u00f6rnfeldt, Fernando Zulueta, plus Shelton and Armando C. P\u00e9rez (Pitbull).<\/p>\n<p>In a behind-the-scenes video, director Gil Green says, \u201cBlake shows Pit how they get down in Tennessee.\u201d And Shelton tells Pitbull, as they are sipping lemonade on a front porch out in the country, \u201cI\u2019m honored to be on a record with you, man. Truly am.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\"> Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UrYSZ5V1QuE?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\/UrYSZ5V1QuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>\t<\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video was shot in Tennessee and in Florida, so it\u2019s fitting that half the video features some honky-tonk, line-dancing girls in cut-offs, and the other half features some poolside dancers in bikinis at the Guitar Hotel at the Seminole Hard Rock near Ft. Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p>The collaboration is on Pitbull\u2019s 2019 <em>Libertad 548 <\/em>album. <\/p>\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\/1817600\/world-premiere-pitbull-and-blake-shelton-are-ready-to-get-ready\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 11m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. At some point when Blake Shelton and Pitbull crossed paths \u2014 likely at the 2018 Pendleton Whisky Music Fest in Oregon \u2014 Shelton introduced his dog to Pitbull. The dog\u2019s name? Black Betty. Which rhymes with \u201cGet Ready.\u201d And so, the inspiration for a remix of an [&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-1318157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 05:12:13","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\/1318157","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=1318157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}