Flashback: Blake Shelton Starts Road to Fame in 'Austin'

In 1998, songwriter Bobby Braddock (“D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” “He Stopped Loving Her Today”) was getting ready to produce a new artist from Oklahoma. In his upcoming memoir, A Life on Music Row, due this fall, Braddock recalls that the singer was “tall, funny, irreverent, mullet-headed and talented.” Today, that artist is known…