The Dreamer

Performer: Blake Shelton
Artist: Larry Cordle; Charlie McCoy; Neal Coty; John Wesley Ryles
Engineer: Ed Seay; Paul Hart
Producer: Bobby Braddock
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Blake Shelton (vocals, acoustic guitar); John Willis (acoustic guitar); Brent Rowan (electric guitar, baritone guitar, Wurlitzer piano); Danny Dugmore, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Russ Pahl (banjo); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, fiddle); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); David Angell, John Catchings, David Davidson, Pamela Sixfin (strings); Charlie McCoy (harmonica, trumpet, vibraphone); Michael Rojas, Tim Lauer, Bobby Braddock (keyboards); Michael Rhodes, Alison Prestwood (bass); Shannon Forrest, Greg Morrow (drums, percussion); Sharon Vaughn Bellamy, Larry Cordle, Neal Coty, Wes Hightower, John Wesley Ryles, Blake Shelton (background vocals). Personnel: Blake Shelton (acoustic guitar, background vocals); John Wills (acoustic guitar); Brent Rowan (electric guitar, baritone guitar, Wurlitzer organ); Dan Dugmore, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Russ Pahl (banjo); Jonathan Yudkin (mandolin, fiddle); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); Donald Teal, John Catchings, Jim Grosjean, Anthony LaMarchina, Mary Kathryn Vanosdale, Kris Wilkinson, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, David Davidson , David Angell, Carole Rabinowitz-Neuen (strings); Bobby Braddock, Michael Rojas, Tim Lauer (keyboards); Greg Morrow, Shannon Forrest (drums, percussion); Danny Myrick, Dennis Wilson , Larry Cordle, Leslie Satcher, Melodie Crittenden, Neal Coty, Wes Hightower, John Wesley, Blue Miller (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Ed Seay. Recording information: Cool Tool Audio, Blluebery Hill; Sony; Tracking Room; Treasure Isle; Tree Studio. Photographer: Kristin Barlowe. From the opening guitar riffs of THE DREAMER's first song, "Heavy Lifting," it's clear that there's more than a little rock & roll in Blake Shelton's country music, but that doesn't mean the lad hasn't got a sense of Music City history. In case you thought the country tradition of trucking songs died out with Dave Dudley, Shelton serves to remind that it's very much alive--though now decked out with modern-sounding rhythm loops--on "Asphalt Cowboy." "In My Heaven" finds Shelton imagining his version of paradise, a place where there's no violence, loneliness, or dishonesty. The album's working-man-with-heart-of-gold stance, widescreen power chords, and anthemic choruses suggest that Shelton is something of a country Springsteen, but the bottleneck guitar on "My Neck of the Woods" and the honky-tonk fiddle of "Georgia in a Jug" leave little doubt as to the side of the Mason-Dixon line on which his heart resides.

Rolling Stone (6/26/03, p.81) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Power country for the racetrack..." Entertainment Weekly (2/7/03, p.83) - "...His earnest emotion ingratiates him..."

Country star Blake Shelton's popularity is due not only to his rakish good looks, easy-going country croon, and tuneful songwriting, but also in part to the fortuitous failure of Warner subsidiary Giant Records. After the label folded in 2001, Warner Brothers picked up Shelton's contract and helped catapult him to the top of the charts with hits like "Austin," "The Baby," and "Some Beach."

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