youtu.be/twUHGt3emE8 For Debbie Lynn Allen Musical career 2001–06: Beginnings After several years in Nashville, he signed to Giant Records in 2001. In 2001, he was slated to release a song entitled I Wanna Talk About Me as a single. Staff at the label considered the song unsuitable for a lead-off single, however, and the song was eventually recorded by Toby Keith, whose version was a number 1 single. Instead, Giant released Austin as Sheltons debut single. Shortly after its release, Giant Records was closed, and Shelton was transferred to parent company Warner Bros. Records. Austin went on to spend five weeks at Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. Warner released his self-titled debut album, which was produced by songwriter Bobby Braddock. It also produced the top 20 hits All Over Me, which Shelton co-wrote with Earl Thomas Conley and Mike Pyle, and Ol Red. Although Sheltons rendition of Ol Red was not a major radio hit, he considers it his signature song, and it has become popular in concert.[5] Blake Shelton received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of 500,000 copies. Blake Shelton received a positive review from Maria Konicki Dinoia of Allmusic, who called Austin tremendously imaginative and praised Shelton for including songs written by Braddock and Conley. Country Standard Time was less favorable, with Scott Homewood saying that it album just smacks of being assembled with the intent on capturing the burgeoning alternative country market. Sheltons second album, The Dreamer, was first released on February 4, 2003, on Warner Bros. Records. Its lead-off single, The Baby, reached Number One on the country charts, holding that position for three weeks. Although the second and third singles (Heavy Liftin and Playboys of the Southwestern World, respectively) only reached No.32 and No. 24, The Dreamer earned gold certification as well. He, along with Andy Griggs and Montgomery Gentry, sang guest vocals on Tracy Byrds mid-2003 single The Truth About Men. Blake Sheltons Barn & Grill was the title of Sheltons third studio album, released in 2004. Its lead-off single, the Harley Allen co-write When Somebody Knows You That Well, peaked at No.37 on the country charts, while the follow-up Some Beach became his third No.1 hit, holding that position for four weeks. It was followed by a cover of Conway Twittys 1988 single Goodbye Time. Both this cover and its followup, Nobody but Me, reached Top Ten for Shelton as well. As with his first two albums, Blake Sheltons Barn & Grill was certified gold. Accompanying the albums release was a video collection entitled Blake Sheltons Barn & Grill: A Video Collection. On December 18, 2005, several of Sheltons songs, including Nobody but Me, appeared on the TV movie The Christmas Blessing, starring Neil Patrick Harris, Rebecca Gayheart, Angus T. Jones, and Rob Lowe. Shelton had a small role at the end of the movie, playing himself at a benefit concert, singing Nobody but Me.
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