Blake Shelton Reveals Post-Touring Plans on Oklahoma Ranch
- Blake Shelton discovered his love for country music, hunting, and fishing as a teenager while watching Tracy Byrd’s Weekend Outdoor show on TNN.
Blake Shelton might be a world-famous musician, but his first love is the great outdoors.
In a recent interview with Hook & Barrel magazine, the "Boys 'Round Here" singer recalled the moment he discovered his greatest passions as a teenager while watching TNN and Tracy Byrd's Weekend Outdoor show.
"I was the guy that basically had already figured out what makes me happy by the time I was 14 years old: It's country music and fishing and hunting," he told the outlet. "I saw (Byrd's show) and remember going 'Oh my God! You can be a country singer and hunt and fish? Those are my two things!'"
In recent years, Shelton has been able to do all the hunting and fishing he wants on his 1,300-acre ranch in Tishomingo, Okla., where he doesn't use depth finders or scopes and avoids setting up game cameras before and during deer season.
"There's a love to the mystery of not knowing what's out there, not knowing what fish might be under that log," he said. "If I don't know what's there, it could be the next world record!"
As Blake explained, despite his successful country music career, he's always thinking about life on the ranch.
"It's 25 years now since I had my first song on the radio," he said, adding, "And I'm sitting here, feels like a hundred years later, wondering how many more hours I have to be in Los Angeles before I can get back to Oklahoma and start setting my trap lines."
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Of course, that doesn't mean performing isn't a top priority. Shelton kicked off 2025 with a two-week residency in Las Vegas, going on to hit the road with Craig Morgan, Deana Carterand Trace Adkinson his latest "Friends and Heroes Tour" in February.
"It's the most fun I've had, from a concert standpoint, in my career," Shelton said. "I open the show and perform, then throughout the night these other artists will make an appearance. It's really like a music festival all crammed into one night."
Once the tour is over, however, Shelton is heading right back to the ranch—where he just might be joined by a fellow musician or two.
"That's the great thing about country music artists," he said. "About 70% of 'em, before I even shake their hand, I can almost guarantee we'll have something in common, and it's hunting and fishing."
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