Dustin Lynch, Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild, Jordan Davis and Brothers Osborne will make special guest appearances on the soon-to-premiere competition series executive produced by Blake Shelton, officials revealed on Thursday (September 4).

Shelton teamed up with Yellowstone’s Taylor Sheridan to executive produce The Road, a competition series focused on live performances on tour. The up-and-coming musicians taking part in the show’s debut season will advance through the competition by winning over live audiences on tour. Contestants open for global superstar Keith Urban. “Here for the Party” icon Gretchen Wilson serves as tour manager. Wilson confirmed in a previous teaser for The Road that the winner receives a recording contract and “a quarter of a million dollars.”

These are the contestants performing on The Road:

Adam Sanders, 36, from Lake City, Florida
Billie Jo Jones, 34, from Emory, Texas
Blaine Bailey, 23, from Tahlequah, Oklahoma
Briana Adams, 30, from Winchester, Texas
Britnee Kellogg, 40, from Anthem, Arizona
Cassidy Daniels, 25, from Marion, North Carolina
Channing Wilson, 49, from Lafayette, Georgia
Cody Hibbard, 32, from Adair, Oklahoma
Forrest McCurren, 35, from Jefferson City, Missouri
Jenny Tolman, 29, from Nashville, Tennessee
Jon Wood, 28, from Wake Forest, North Carolina
Olivia Harms, 29, from Canby, Oregon

The Road will premiere on October 19. The show will air on Sundays from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS, and will be available to stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.

Kathi Yeager