Idol Chatter & Voice Views

Christina Aguilera returns to join Pharrell Williams, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton as the Season 10 coaches on The Voice. (NBC Photo)

Well, I’ve spent a lot of time over the past week listening to pre-show music from this year’s Top 48.

And, wow, are we in for a treat.

We’re going to meet the woman who played “Curly Sue” back in 1991 and is now a talented singer-songwriter. We’re going to meet a young woman who toured with Prince. We’re going to meet a country singer who recorded an album of duets with the likes of Dolly Parton, Tanya Tucker, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

And so, so many other talented singers. It’s been a while since I heard such an impressive array of pre-show music.

Now, let’s just hope Mark Burnett and his wife haven’t selected the Season 10 winner before the first audition airs. (Sorry, the excessive pimping of Jordan Smith ruined Season 9; his voice could have spoken for itself).

And let’s just hope Season 10 offers more drama than Season 8, when we knew Sawyer Fredericks would win long, long before the finals arrived.

Anyway, I’ve been featuring some of my favorite pre-Voice songs from the Season 10 cast in the featured video spot on this blog for the past week. Now it’s time to put them all in one place for your listening pleasure.

So here they are, seven reasons to get excited about Season 10 of The Voice.

Check back for a live blog Monday night when the blind auditions begin. And in coming weeks, I’ll be posting “meet the singer” blogs on each member of the Top 48.

Mary Sarah: “Dress Up This Town” from her 2015 album of the same name

Nick Hagelin, “Monday Morning” from his self-titled 2015 EP.

Angie Keilhauer, “Understand” from her 2014 Live Acoustic Sessions EP

Owen Danoff, “Juliette” from his 2014 album “Twelve Stories”

Emily Keener, “Let It Shine” from her 2015 album “East of the Sun” with The Womacks

Kata Hay, “Drives Me Crazy,” a single released in 2014

Alisan Porter, “Stay or Run,” from her 2014 album “Who We Are”

See also:
2016 albums, singles and videos from former Voice contestants (so far, of course)
2015 in Review: Top 15 Voice songs
2015 in Review: Top 5 Voice albums
2015 in Review: Top 5 Voice videos