It’s a Keith/Blake convergence

CBS has a fresh way to launch a music talent show.
Very simply, it will use the stars from other networks’ shows.
“The Road,” this fall, will feature Keith Urban (shown here), (previously on “American Idol,” and Blake Shelton, previously on “The Voice.” Shelton will produce it with Taylor Sheridan, the “Yellowstone” creator, and others.
CBS is the only major network that hasn’t had a big-deal music competition. NBC has “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent”; Fox had “American Idol” for 15 years, before it moved to ABC.
Now comes a fresh concept: Urban will do seven concerts in Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee, with Shelton coming along. Emerging talents will be the opening acts.
Urban, 57, spent years as a struggling country singer in Australia and Nashville, before breaking through in 1999. He was an “American Idol” judge for the final four Fox seasons; Shelton did “Voice” for 23 seasons.
“I spent a lot of my underage life playing in some seedy pubs, sometimes just for the bartender,” Urban said, via a CBS press release. “So I love the idea of throwing artists into a real-world environment.”
The tour won’t be doing any seedy, bartender-only shows. It will start March 2 at Tannahill’s, a Fort Worth spot that can hold 1,000 people in its music hall. It will end a month later in Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, the former home of the Grand Ole Opry.