And for me, there was just never an option to go home.” It really took a lot of courage to do that, and you know, you go big, or you go home. “Auditioning for the show is one of the scariest things I’ve ever done in my life. “I don’t know what to say about that! I’ve never been expensive!” Linsey laughs.īut regardless of whether she takes the crown tonight, her stock has definitely risen - along with her self-worth. If I can afford Meghan when this thing is over with, I’d love to have her out on tour with me. When asked if they might hit the road together again, the “Sangria” singer replied, “I hope so! Maybe she’ll let me open for her. “But when you get shut out and you find a way to fight back - I can’t commend her enough for that.”Īs one-half of Steel Magnolia - her country duo with former fiancé Joshua Scott Jones - Linsey once toured with Shelton as his opening act.
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If you get that door cracked open at some point and you get your foot in the music industry, that’s hard,” Shelton tells Rolling Stone Country. “She deserves to win because she fought back, and man, that’s impossible to do. I’m really on the other side of that stuff that I felt was holding me back.” I feel like I’ve come a long way, especially through the show. That’s kind of my goal as an artist - not changing for a guy. “I wrote it in the middle of a bad relationship,” she explains to Rolling Stone Country. “Change My Mind” was written with a couple of friends during an especially vulnerable period in her life. “I don’t usually play covers, and this whole thing of being dropped into this whole framework where it’s like you’re singing all these well-known covers, it’s been awkward in some ways for me.”Īlthough Meghan Linsey has been lauded for putting her own bluesy imprint on classic cuts, she relished the opportunity to showcase her talent as a songwriter. The father of two from Traverse City, Michigan, admits the karaoke format of The Voice has been an adjustment. It’s a song about economic disparity, and hope in troubled times,” he tells Rolling Stone Country.
“It’s not a love song, it’s not a song about drinking beer in red solo cups. Team Adam’s Joshua Davis says his heartland anthem, “The Workingman’s Hymn,” is indicative of his point-of-view as a singer-songwriter. “Do I like it?! Is that a question? No, I loved it, and it was an amazing moment,” she recalls. Hawthorne tells Rolling Stone Country Williams timidly asked whether she liked the piece. But when I thought about her, I was like, ‘OK, it’s ‘Bright Fire’…I could just hear what she was going to do with it.” I woke up at 6:00 one morning, and I was like, ‘Oh!’ The song was called ‘Sun’ first. “So she walks into my life, and it’s like, ‘Well, I have to do a song,’ and I have to figure out what it’s going to be. “There was this song that I had that I hadn’t quite gotten right yet,” he recounts. The 10-time Grammy-winning writer, producer and artist tells Rolling Stone Country how “Bright Fire” became his gift to his young ingénue. Louisiana high school junior Koryn Hawthorne found herself at the receiving end of coach Pharrell Williams’ prolific ability to multi-task. So dude, you win! I don’t care what happens. “If I was 16 and Eddie Vedder was like, ‘Hey Adam, dude-that-loves-me-and-worships-me, here’s a song I wrote and you can sing it,’ that would blow my flippin’ brains out. Rival coach Adam Levine said he could understand the euphoria of singing a track hand-picked by an idol. “I remember hearing the music when my dad was working on the house, and I just fell in love with his voice, and the way he plays guitar, and I picked up a lot of that kind of style that he does,” Fredericks explained leading into his performance.
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