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Blake Shelton On Touring in 2021: ‘I’ll Believe It When I See It’

Blake Shelton has not yet announced tour dates for 2021 and there’s a reason for that: he’s not sure that tours will be able to happen this year. Blake said…

Blake Shelton On Touring in 2021: 'I'll Believe It When I See It'
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Blake Shelton has not yet announced tour dates for 2021 and there's a reason for that: he's not sure that tours will be able to happen this year.

Blake said during a recent press conference when asked about getting back out on the road, "You know obviously I can't wait. I'm not as confident as everybody else that we're about to just blast right back into it again. I hope so. I just try not to get my hopes up right now. I'm just taking it one step at a time."

He added, "I feel like we all got stung and burned so many times last year it was like, 'Oh, just maybe, just maybe' and then nope, it's not gonna happen. I am to the point where I'll believe it when I see it."

Shelton did say that aside from everything else he's doing, performing for fans is his only real concern. He offered, "This is what I do. I said since I started on The Voice ten years ago, all I ever wanted to be is a country singer. And when all that stuff is over with in my life and career, I'm still gonna be doing this somewhere, somehow whether there's a tip jar in front of me or at an arena somewhere. Music is really the only shot I had at life and I love country music."

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.