THE ROAD

“I'll be honest, I wasn’t exactly dying to do another singing show,” admits Blake Shelton, who was a coach on The Voice for 23 seasons before departing in 2023. So why did the country superstar want to join a brand-new competition series? “[Executive producer] Lee Metzger and I started kicking around this idea: What if we built a show that actually looked like what it takes to make it as an artist?” Shelton explains. “Sleeping on buses, playing for crowds that didn’t buy a ticket to see you, writing songs that may or may not pay the bills. That’s real.”

- Alyssa Norwin

The series follows 12 emerging artists opening up for Keith Urban—who was previously a judge on American Idol for four seasons and on Australia’s version of The Voice for three—in music venues across the country. Throughout the season, Shelton, along with