The newest episode of CBS’ The Road showed Keith Urban having a lot of fun with Blake Shelton — from sharing a hug to joking about pickup lines.
During the Sunday, October 27, episode, Urban, 57, and Shelton, 49, settled in to watch the performances on the first part of a two-day stop in Texas. One of the contestants took the stage and asked the audience who was there “with someone you love.”
“Well, I want you to put your arms around that person right now if they are here,” she added as Urban and Shelton reached out for each other. The performer then encouraged the loved ones watching the show to repeat a phrase to their dates, which Urban told to Shelton, “I am going to love you until my tank is empty.”
Later in the episode, another musician sang about cowboys.
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“You think it’s a good pickup line? Hey, cowboy, what is your name?” Shelton asked Urban, who fired back, “Well, not from you.”
The Road follows 12 emerging musicians who are competing as opening acts for Urban while he tours across America. The contestants advance to the next city based on the reaction from the crowds at their respective shows. By the end of the season, only one act is left standing.
In addition to Urban and Shelton, Gretchen Wilson appears in the role of tour manager, and executive producer Taylor Sheridan was also in Sunday’s episode offering advice to the remaining group. Country music stars Jordan Davis, Karen Fairchild, Dustin Lynch and Brothers Osborne will also join as special guest advisers throughout the season.
Urban filmed The Road before Us Weekly confirmed in September that the country artist and wife Nicole Kidman had split after 19 years of marriage. They met in 2005 following her divorce from Tom Cruise. After one year of dating, Kidman, 58, and Urban got married and expanded their family in 2008 with the arrival of daughter Sunday Rose. Two years later, Kidman and Urban welcomed daughter Faith via surrogate. (Kidman is also the mother of daughter Isabella and son Connor, whom she adopted with Cruise, 63.)
Urban opened up about the highs and lows of life on tour while filming The Road.
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“Where do we start? It’s a calling, and you’re going to do it or you’re not going to make it,” he explained. “When you wake up on a tour bus at 3:30 in the morning and you’re sick as a dog, you’re in the middle of nowhere and you’ve got to play your fifth show later that night, and you haven’t slept, and you miss your friends, and you’re missing your family, and you’re completely lonely and miserable and sick — and you say to yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’”
Urban added: “The only answer can be: because this is what I’m born to do. We’re going to find out who’s made for that stuff [on this show].”
Urban previously spoke exclusively with Us about the “discipline” required to succeed in the music industry.
“I just played a show in Vegas last night and I had another one tomorrow night, and [taping] this finale fell in between. So I came home after the show last night, got in at 5 a.m., here we are, and then take off tomorrow, go to Vegas,” he shared with Us. “I think that never changes, as far as the discipline required to do what we do. And it’s been great watching Gretchen handle them as well and give really good advice. [She’s] like Mama Bear, in the best way.”
The Road airs on CBS Sundays at 9:30 p.m. ET before streaming on Paramount+.
