Bringing Back the Sunshine is the ninth studio album by country music singer Blake Shelton. The album was released on September 30, 2014, by Warner Bros. Nashville. The album was produced by Shelton's longtime producer Scott Hendricks. "Neon Light," the album's lead-off single, was released on August 18, 2014. The album's second single, "Lonely Tonight", received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. The title and September 30, 2014 release date for Bringing Back the Sunshine were both announced on August 1, 2014, one day after Shelton performed a free concert on the beach in Atlantic City to an audience of over 60,000 and the same day that he performed a concert at Madison Square Garden. The album's release date was timed for one week after the premiere of The Voice's seventh season. Shelton described Bringing Back the Sunshine as "a throwback" to his first few albums, saying, "I want to sing all kinds of songs" but also "I got very far away from what I used to sound like". Reflecting on how country artists had shifted the genre away from its roots over the years, Shelton called himself "guilty of it as anybody" and explained that the album title was chosen to evoke "bringing back" a more traditional style of country music, saying, "The whole album is searching for parts of me that I think have… not gotten lost along the way, but stuff that I haven't addressed in my music as much as I used to, whether it's drinking songs, heartbreak songs or son

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