If you stuck with The Road all season, we finally have a winner.
After weeks of bouncing from city to city, playing real venues for real crowds, the show crowned its first-ever champion: Adam Sanders.
The finale came down to three artists: Adam, Cassidy Daniels, and Channing Wilson, all taking one last turn onstage before the crowd made the final call.
The whole concept of The Road was pretty straightforward. They put artists on a bus, sent them out to perform night after night, and let the audience decide who actually connects.
Along the way, the artists were guided by Blake Shelton and Keith Urban, with Gretchen Wilson helping keep things grounded. The final three made their way to Nashville for the last stop at the Ryman Auditorium, which is about as iconic and about as nerve-wracking as it gets.
When the votes were counted, Adam came out on top, earning $250,000, a record deal, and a spot at Stagecoach Festival.
He landed his first publishing deal in 2011, which in Nashville years is basically ancient history. Since then, his songs have been recorded by some very familiar names, including Luke Bryan, Cole Swindell, Dierks Bentley, Dustin Lynch, Scotty McCreery, and Jordan Davis, among others.
(But if we’re being honest – and we are – a lot of folks thought Cassidy Daniels had this thing locked up. She was consistently strong, connected with crowds in a big way, and felt like the artist who walked onstage already knowing exactly who she was.)
Season one of The Road is officially in the books. Love the outcome or not, the show did what it set out to do … put real artists in real rooms and let the crowds decide.
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