“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. And yet, two years later, the country superstar is bringing a brand new singing competition show to CBS.
So, what changed his mind? “[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.”
The guys got Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan and producer David Glasser on board as executive producers, and The Road “all fell in place.”
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