Check Out My Interview With Blake Shelton Over At The 9513

"This has been an amazing year for me," he says. "If you would have told me when I started out that I would have two major awards, a CD in the upper reaches of the charts, a sold-out show at the Ryman Auditorium and a career that's generally on fire, I would have thought you were pulling my leg."

He's got all that and more. The SIX PAKs, of course, are Blake's two most recent CD's, innovative ways to get music into the hands of his fans more often. The first, Hillbilly Bone, included a title track that sped to the coveted #1 spot on the singles charts and won Blake two major awards--Vocal Event of the Year from the Academy of Country Music and Collaborative Video of the Year (with his partner in crime Trace Adkins) from CMT. The SIX PAK CD debuted at #3 on Billboard's all-genre Top 200 chart and #2 on the Top Country Albums Chart, and kicked his already humming career into overdrive.

I had an opportunity to talk with Blake over at the granddaddy of country music blogs, The 9513. Catch a snippet of it below and then read the whole thing HERE.

"This is my seventh album. As people learn about me and my personality–especially lately through Twitter and more television–I think it’s the type of music that they’d expect to hear from a guy with a personality like mine. That comes from me becoming more confident in who I am and that I’m an absolute dipshit half the time. (Laughter) And I’m okay with that. Once you learn those things and embrace them about yourself, you become that guy when you record. I think that’s why 11 years into this thing, I’m finally connecting with my audience more than ever."