Oklahoma's Best Country KLAW101 is proud to present Grammy and Emmy Award winning performer Blake Shelton and legendary radio host Bob Kingsley with the world premier of Shelton's brand new album If I'm Honest, this Sunday afternoon at 3pm on KLAW.

The album, If I’m Honest, is probably Blake Shelton's most personal of his career. Long known as a public figure unafraid to be himself, Blake has applied that same guileless approach to his art, bringing a searing emotional honesty to the 15 slices of life that make up the project.

“I’ve never been as proud of an album as a body of work as I am of this one,” he says, citing the title itself as an example of his approach. “I felt like with this record being so important to me and basically autobiographical, a snapshot of a year-and-a-half of my life, an ordinary album title would be a copout. I thought, 'I can do better than that.'”

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The heart of the album lies in songs of regret and remembrance, like “Bet You Still Think About Me” and “Everytime I Hear That Song,” and in songs about the process of taking a chance on love, including “Every Goodbye,” “Came Here To Forget,” “It Ain’t Easy,” “One Night Girl,” and “You Can’t Make This Up.” An emotional highlight comes with “Go Ahead and Break My Heart,” which features Gwen Stefani, who co-wrote it with Blake. “It’s hard for me to talk about this song without smiling,” he says, “just for the fact that she and I wrote this thing together about our circumstances at the time.” Stefani shows up again as Blake talks about “A Guy With A Girl,” a song about being with someone who turns every head.

“I’ve experienced this so much in the last few months,” he says, “because Gwen goes to a completely different circle of award shows and parties than I’ve ever got to and so I’m like a fish out of water. I notice that people approach us but they’re really approaching her and that’s what this song is about—the guy is just the guy with her.”

He is especially proud of “Savior’s Shadow,” a gospel song that got its start in a dream and has been widely embraced in Christian markets. “For a guy like me who’s never really stepped out about my faith,” he says, “this is another matter of being honest, of talking about things that happened and how they played out.”

Rounding out the album is an upbeat, catchy and highly country look at friendship. “Friends” came about when the producers of The Angry Birds Movie called and invited Blake to write the movie’s key song.

“I told my manager after that first meeting to make it happen, no matter what,” he says. Blake’s role in the film, the voice of Earl the Pig, is the latest in a wide range of accomplishments for the Oklahoma-born singer who long ago assumed superstar status. Shelton is currently riding a streak of #1 singles that stretches back to 2009’s “Hillbilly Bone,” his concerts are among the hottest tickets in the business, he hosted the 2016 Kids Choice Awards on Nickelodeon, and he is currently the subject of a career-spanning exhibition called "Blake Shelton: Based on a True Story," at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.

So join Blake Shelton and Bob Kingsley for the premier of If I'm Honest, this Sunday afternoon at 3pm, and then again at 4:30 for those that missed it, on Oklahoma's Best Country, KLAW101 and on the web at klaw.com.

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