CBS‘ upcoming music competition series The Road has found its top-billed act.
Country music star Keith Urban will serve as the headliner for the show, in which up-and-coming acts serve as his opener on several tour dates. The audiences at those shows will help determine who stays on tour and who goes home.
The Road comes from creators Blake Shelton and Taylor Sheridan and is slated to air on CBS in the fall.
“I spent a lot of my underage life playing in some seedy pubs, sometimes just for the bartender. So I love the idea of throwing artists into a real-world environment to find out if they are artists,” Urban said in a statement. “Paying your dues sucks, but there are things in this business that can’t be taught, like how to put together a set list, whether to extend or cut a song during your performance or how to work the crowd. For me, touring has always been my first love. It’s where the rubber meets the road. But it’s the only road to take if you want to be a performer.”
Urban and the show’s contestants will perform at small and medium-sized venues in Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee in March and April, culminating in a show at the storied Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Free tickets to each show will be given out on a first come, first served basis.
Urban is not a stranger to music competitions, having served as a judge on American Idol for its last four seasons on Fox in the 2010s. He was a guest mentor on Idol (now on ABC) in 2023 and also served as a coach for three cycles of the Australian version of The Voice.
MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios and Shelton and Lee Metzger’ss Lucky Horseshoe Productions are producing The Road. Sheridan, 101 Studios’ David Glasser, Shelton and Metzger are the executive producers.
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