Carrie Underwood and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, sharing the stage tonight in special "CMT crossroads" from Indianapolis

Carrie Underwood and Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, sharing the stage tonight in special "CMT crossroads" from Indianapolis:  Checotah built-in and 2005 “American Idol” champ Carrie Underwood and Aerosmith frontman and accepted “Idol” adjudicator Steven Tyler and will allotment the date in a “CMT Crossroads” appropriate airing reside from Indianapolis tonight, the night afore Super Bowl XLVI.

“CMT Crossroads: Steven Tyler & Carrie Underwood From the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam” will yield abode at the Pepsi Coliseum at the Indiana State Fair Grounds, letters CMT.com.

The appearance will premiere reside at 10 tonight on CMT. Their “CMT Crossroads” appropriate will reair at 1 a.m. and 9 a.m. Sunday on CMT.

As Aerosmith’s frontman, Tyler accustomed himself as one of bedrock music’s a lot of accepted choir with hits such as “Sweet Emotion,” “Dream On” and “Last Child.”

After acceptable “Idol” in 2005, Underwood has awash added than 14 actor albums and won 5 Grammys, seven CMT Music Awards and six American Music Awards. She is a backstab champ of the Academy of Country Music’s amateur of the year accolade and a three-time champ of both the Country Music Association’s and ACM’s changeable diva of the year award. She appear endure anniversary that her fourth anthology will be out May 1.

Tyler and Underwood advanced performed calm in 2011 at the Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas. The duo brought the amphitheatre army to its anxiety and wowed millions of admirers at home assuming Underwood’s No. 1 song “Undo It” followed by Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way.”

“I just adulation to sing and I adulation her stuff. A acceptable acquaintance of abundance writes songs with her. If I heard ‘Undo It,’ I said, ‘What is that?’ That is an Aerosmith song, right? I am traveling to accomplishment recording that with you. He said, ‘No, I wrote that with Carrie, it is advancing out in a week,’” Tyler told the Associated Press.

“I met her and it was all over afterwards that, already I looked into her eyes. She opened her aperture and sang and she is that good. I admired singing with her.”

The two stars apposite Thursday black in North Greenfield, just alfresco of Indianapolis, advanced of tonight’s show. The above “Idol” champ says she enjoys alive with the active Tyler because he “makes everybody all balmy and fuzzy.”

While Tyler, carefully affiliated to Boston for years, fabricated bright he was acclaim for the New England Patriots in Sunday’s bold adjoin the New York Giants, Underwood demurred if asked to name her pick. In her house, she says hockey is the capital focus, back bedmate Mike Fisher is a able hockey amateur in Nashville.

“He is Canadian so I accept had to about-face his focus from so abundant hockey to a little football because we watch a lot of hockey,” she told the AP. “I adulation watching him and I adulation watching the Predators.”