Filed under: Country News, TV

Blake Shelton's album, Based on a True Story ... will hit store shelves and online retailers on March 26, just hours after the season four premiere of "The Voice" on Monday, March 25. In preparation for those two events, the superstar entertainer has been juggling a whirlwind schedule, and although the new disc will unquestionably be a country record, he acknowledges that his horizons have been broadened by living in L.A. and working on the TV show.

"Being a part of 'The Voice' ... everything I know about every other genre, I've learned in the last two years," Blake told The Boot and other reporters at a recent media event. "AC/DC, Guns 'N Roses, Van Halen, I was pretty much lost when it came to other genres. Now I know a lot about what's going on out there because I'm a part of it, I'm living it on that show. You learn a lot about songs and the form of them and I don't think there's any way around it. If you take in music and you make music, eventually some of that stuff is going to leak into it."