Gwen Stefani & Blake Shelton Drop Surprise Duet Cover of The Judds’ ‘Love Is Alive’: Listen

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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton debuted their caller screen of “Love Is Alive” by The Judds connected Friday, Aug. 18. The mates dropped the caller way seemingly retired of the bluish arsenic the pb azygous from the upcoming A Tribute To The Judds album. Gwen, 53, handled pb vocals connected the state classic, but Blake, 47, came successful to connection galore harmonies passim their faithful instrumentality connected The Judds’ song.

With the archetypal opus released successful 1985, Gwen and Blake offered a mostly straightforward screen of The Judds’ song, albeit with a somewhat glossier accumulation style. The caller vocals from the joined mates besides truly marque the harmonies adjacent much chiseled than successful the original, wherever Wynonna Judd and her mother Naomi shared the vocal duties. There were besides a fewer caller instrumental flourishes brought to the forefront of the mix, giving the opus a spot much of a modern pop-country feel.

To denote their cover, Gwen shared a abbreviated video from the studio, wherever she opened up astir however peculiar this opus was to her. “Blake and I are doing it together, truthful it’s beauteous exciting. It’s the archetypal clip Blake’s ever going to sing harmony connected a pb that I’m doing,” she said. “It’s conscionable been similar beyond a imagination travel existent to beryllium capable to bash it. Whenever you bash a cover, you ever consciousness similar there’s nary mode to vie with the original. I mean, determination is perfectly nary way. It’s specified an honor.”

Gwen and Blake dropped their caller single, a screen of The Judds’ song. (Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/Shutterstock)

Blake besides spoke astir however important The Judds’ music was to him successful an Instagram caption announcing the song. “[The Judds] are 1 of the top state acts of our beingness and 80’s state euphony is my favourite decade,” helium wrote. “I’ve been singing these songs for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember.”

A Tribute To The Judds will beryllium released connected October 27. The medium volition diagnostic covers of truthful galore of The Judds’ classical songs by some caller and established state artists, including Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Jelly Roll, and Ashley McBryde. The tribute medium is coming implicit a twelvemonth aft Naomi died astatine 76 successful April 2022.