Blake Shelton - Startin Fires

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Blake Shelton - Startin Fires

“Blake Shelton announces that “I’m a lucky man” near the start of his fifth album, which is exactly how someone dating fellow country singer Miranda Lambert should probably feel. That relationship gives “Startin’ Fires” its verve and spirit, a love-struck recovery from the heartbroken pall that hung over 2007’s “Pure BS.” There’s some self-recrimination in “She Wouldn’t Be Gone” and a neat twist in the plot of “I Don’t Care,” but mostly Shelton is in L-O-V-E and overjoyed to sing about it. “Country Strong” offers an anthemic salute to boot-wearin’ men and women, “Home Sweet Home” pays tribute to just that, and “This Is Gonna Take All Night” is a pronouncement of sexual intent so direct it would make the late Barry White smile. The “Fires,” it seems, have more than merely started. —Gary Graff”

Blake Shelton - She Wouldn’t Be Gone

Good hook, but doesn’t have enough to put it over the edge. 5/10

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