Dumb Blonde - Colt Ford: Country Rap’s OG

Episode Date: September 6, 2023

Colt Ford is a country rap pioneer, and today with Bunnie, he finally gets his flowers. Colt joins the show to discuss how his passion for music was ignited at a young age, his collaboration on the 'Hoodbillies' project with Krizz Kaliko, his journey in finding love, and the ways he conquers daily challenges while living with an autoimmune disease. Colt and Bunnie also get into the beauty of hustling and share valuable advice for aspiring individuals in the music industry.Watch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comColt Ford: Website | IG | TikTok See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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is this thing on bonnie who used to be a former sex worker and now hosts the podcast dumb blonde most little girls grow up wanting to be doctors and lawyers and shit and i was like i want to be super hot make a lot of fucking money and be a rock star's that was my goal as a child and here we are what's up you sexy motherfuckers welcome Welcome to another episode of Dumb Blonde. Today I have the country rap king in the building and I am so thrilled and so honored Mr. Colt Ford. Thank you. It is my pleasure. It is my pleasure. I don't know about if I'm the king but I'm just I'm glad to be here for sure and it's cool to be doing this with you. I love how humble you are

but I mean you started this shit you know. I feel like. I've been accused of that yeah. Yeah. A time or two. Like and we're gonna get into that because today I think you started this shit you know I feel like I've been accused of that yeah yeah like and we're gonna get into that because today I think you deserve your flowers sir I appreciate that thank you very much for sure dude what have you been up to what are you doing how you doing you're on tour yeah just been working like crazy tons of shows just put out a new record uh not long ago with 24 songs on it uh and it's uh I think it's my ninth, maybe my ninth album. I never thought I'd get to make one. You know, I meant like, same with like, Jelly, you know, we dream of this

and we wanted it our whole life and it took us a little bit longer to get where we are. But yeah, I'm just having a blast. I mean, I about turned 54 years old. I feel really good. You look great. I clean up all right for an old guy. And I'm just having fun.

And then i got some other projects coming out myself you know chris calico that was with tech nine love chris shout out chris shout out his wife we have a oh crystal she's awesome we have a new project we just put out the first single called hood billies together and it's just it's super fun it's uh it's him and i doing something it was kind kind of a time. And I think for both of us in our life where we needed, we needed to hang out with each other like that. He's such a good energy. He does. He's so positive, but he had gotten really down with an autoimmune disease, which I've been dealing with one that I got diagnosed with a year and a half ago. That's

really did a number on me. But luckily, like this is the first real interview I've done without my glasses on because I actually expected you to show up with the sun my vision has been so bad but i got some new medicine that's really helping me so god is good and i'm feeling good with that and yeah just just having a bunch of fun i'm as excited as i ever been about music and just playing and you know it's just it's great to still be out there on the road chasing these young boys around yeah it's crazy i think your work ethic and your drive is insane. Like it reminds me of myself kind of like we just, you're always hustling.

And I think that's one thing that connected you and I, and maybe me and Jay together as well as like the hustle. Like I don't mind what anybody does long as you're hustling. Like I just, I appreciate that work ethic no matter what it is. I like people that hustle and go after what they want and don't let anybody tell them that they can't do it or I wouldn't be sitting here because everybody told me they're like you're out of your mind I meant you're 30 at the time like 35 36 years old you've already done something that I'm like how can you do this you're 330

pounds with a cowboy hat on I'm like even though I'm really good looking I just you know I was like I don't know I didn't know what would happen but I just was so hard-headed that I was like, even though I'm really good looking, I just, you know, I was like, I don't know. I didn't know what would happen, but I just was so hard headed that I was like, I don't know the music off a ride through the country. I started letting people hear it and people were like, I don't know what this is, but I love it. So, you know, here we are all these years later. No, it's crazy.

So let's, let's take it all the way back. Let's take it back to you were born in Georgia. Correct. Let's take it all the way back. Like when you back to you were born in georgia correct let's take it all the way back like when you were a kid was music your outlet or i guess music was kind of you know people ask me like when did you get into music and i say never music got into me it was something that's always been and nobody in my family played music my mom or dad i just same with jay yeah so i was just different i mean i mean I was just that different kid that you know could kind of walk on and and Jay we have a lot of similarities in a lot of ways we

were both able to kind of walk on either side of the fence and go from you know we could go from the country to the hood to the city like we we've been lucky to have that and I think it's I think it's interesting that's what it's done to our music as well that's kind of created who we are as artists that we move in different ways and I just I just never could cut it off you know your product kind of of your environment my dad and mom and dad were you know my dad's from Hartwell Georgia my mom's from Anderson South Carolina they didn't need neither one of them had nothing didn't have indoor plumbing till they were 18 years old you know so they grew up poor and country.

And so I liked a lot of country stuff. My folks listened to and my folks were big Elvis fans. So I'm a huge Elvis fan. And that's always why I dance. I mean, like I've always been, I've always danced. Even now, I'm at 54. I'm up there like I can't be still on stage. I have to dance and do all that kind of stuff.

So that was a big thing for me but then all of a sudden I heard like Sugar Hill Gang and I heard Run DMC and I was like oh shit what is this I'm at and I actually I made a record uh kind of a rap record in 1983 wow before I'd ever I'd never even seen a white another white kid rap this was pre-Beastie Boys like I'd never even and I was like do you have it still I have no idea where that is it's a good question I wish I did my mom saves everything so she probably you should break that out I'm sorry I'm getting attacked she's probably got it somewhere I mean it's in bees getting after you because you're so sweet yes something's happening it just keeps coming towards me it was crazy like I didn't know any better and my parents never stopped me and said,

hey, you can't do that and you can't do that. Growing up where I did, I was definitely an odd kid. I was a really good athlete and I played a lot of sports. My dad coached baseball. I was good enough to have college scholarships in a couple different sports. Wait, let's not graze over that. I hadn't gotten there yet. But yeah, I was a college All-American in golf and then played professionally for the first half of my life. But I never could cut music off.

It never went away from me. It was like in your soul. Yeah, it just never went away. I was always still writing. I was always still working. And I was trying to do both for a while, but they don't go together. The time to play golf is you're getting up at

4 35 o'clock in the morning well that's when i go to bed right that's when you're just now leaving the studio they don't really work together and uh you know i talk to my friends that play on the pj tour i talk to them a lot of times when i'm getting ready to go to bed and they're getting up to go to work right it's an interesting dynamic but it all you know i did a lot of jermaine dupri and I worked together a lot the first crisscross record we did so let's let's take it back though because you're grazing over this because I don't think a lot of people know this about you especially my fan base I don't think would know this just because you're really popular on TikTok for doing the song with Kevin

Gates and like a couple other songs and we'll get to that too but you were a professional golfer that's true I mean most people just automatically think male model when they yeah right and so no it's just it's it's weird my path and when I talk about it I realize that it's kind of strange no it's crazy strange to me but it's awesome my parents never they never told me like you can't do that you can't and they were like I don't know I meant was this white kid my son 13 year olds and he were like I don't know I meant this white kid my son 13 year old and he raps I don't know they've never seen anything like it before I just was into it I couldn't I just did anybody else in your family golf yeah yeah my dad my dad was a good player

when he was younger I was just wondering like where he picked it up there and then I just you know it just happened and uh and it's just a great game and it's been it's it's been good to me for a lot of years and been fun to do the celebrity stuff as I came along in music and uh so you did a record in 83 how old were you in 83 I was three let's see I was about 12 or 13 okay 69 so you were still I was a freshman in high school okay so you were doing music in school yeah I was trying to I was always I could never make music go away I was always trying to do music, trying to with my friends and, and, you know, a lot of times you chase different things.

I meant like, uh, you know, if you look at kind of where Jay started musically to where he is now, you'd go, I didn't see, you didn't see that coming. I wonder why people, cause you have been able to flop genres so much as flop a good word. I don't know. Just crisscross for me. Yeah. Just flop over to, you know, different genres and nobody has ever came at you. I don't think as hard as they did my husband, they have called my husband a sellout. They have said so much shit and I feel like it was so accepting of you to do it. But then when Jay does it, it's like, it's a whole nother thing. And by the same token, there's been a lot of things on my side that i that i had like but jay's gotten radio

play and i've never gotten any i've never had a song on the top 40 road not for me they played for jason but i've never had i've sold right at a little over five million records and but i've never had a song on the top 40 never wow and i think do you think that's because you've always stayed independent that could have something to do I've tried to think of every kind of reason yeah there was obviously when I first came out there was nobody really quite like what I was doing and and to me you know Charlie Daniels god bless his soul was so good to me like he felt like early on like he said I think you're just picking up where I left off you know i meant so he was so sweet to me what a blessing what oh my god the guy was just the greatest but

i i wasn't trying to they give me credit for starting this new sub genre i that was never my intention so what was your first single that you dropped let's let's go there because i i need to dissect this we're going back to my space now. Okay. So my space. Because I had never heard of country rap until Colt Ford. And I never, and I, again, like I said, I never intended to go, look, I started this. I just was trying to make the best music I could make. Yeah. And I, for me. I appreciate the humbleness.

And it's the same though, like with Jay though, from the same point of like, he was all, he rapped, but he's singing that. And that's what people was like. I was always afraid to, I was's singing now. And that's what people are like. I was always afraid to sing. Right. And I ain't no great singer by any stretch of the imagination, but I've discovered the way I sing that makes sense depending on the song that I'm singing, the right songs.

Yeah. Well, you've got to feel it. But I never got, you know, I was out here trying to fight with the radio, and everybody in town was like, we love it. We don't know what to do with it, but they were kind of scared of me so that's kind of like how they were with jay at first whenever he first started to cross over they were like we really love you we just don't know where to put you and that was kind of the thing i meant so for me i think i was i was probably about 10 years ahead of everything versus where everybody's mindset is now

and everything i and there was i would would go and I would visit radio. I'd give them everything they asked me. I am a nice dude. That's just who I am. I like to see people win. I love to help people. I love to shake the fans' hands and tell them thank you. Without them, none of us would be able to do what we do.

Absolutely. But radio would be like, they would play it a little bit, but they're just like, well, I don't know. And then, you know, Jason Aldean records Dirt Road Anthem. It's almost a, it's almost a diamond single. I mean, like clearly it works. Did you write that song?

Yeah. I mean, Brantley and I wrote that. Okay. So Brantley and I wrote that together. Shout out Brantley. We love Brantley. Oh my God. That's my brother.

Yeah. I met, uh. Sweetest man ever. I talked to him, talked to him yesterday. He's a talker. Uh, yeah. We get off late nights sometimes. Yeah. No, that's my brother. Yeah, I met... Sweetest man ever. I talked to him yesterday. He's a talker. Yeah, we get off late night sometimes and get into some deep conversations. Yeah, no, that's Brantley. Because we kind of came up together.

Yeah. And we were trying to figure it out. And we sat down and wrote Dirt Road Anthem in probably 30 minutes. Wow. We didn't have any idea. We were just right... I was picking him up to go write with another friend of ours. And he only had his motorcycle then.

And it was freezing cold. And was like well check this out and we start and we wrote dirt road anthem I was like this is cool I don't know if anybody give a shit about this but we liked it we were just writing about what we liked the greats we didn't have any idea and then turns out to be you know one of the biggest songs in the last 30 40 years I meant so I feel like radio play and I had talked about this all the time. This is nothing new and it's not me shading the industry, but radio play is so political.

It is. And, and again, also then we were an independent record label. So that's, that's a very different thing in Nashville. Cause almost every independent at least has some affiliation with a major, whether it be distribution or something. And we have none. We have had none we we've never had any we've manufactured ourselves we've we've done all that ourselves and which has been super cool and very rewarding but at the same time it's been a little i think it's maybe held me back in some things and honestly i've had an amazing career i'm still playing music i'm still

making a living do it uh but at the same time there's a lot of things that kept me from they would go well you're not on the radio so we can and i'm like well and i think that's what how can i get on there if you don't give me you know right they just would never give me a chance and i think that's what they dangle in front of artists is okay well if you sign with this record label you can get radio play exactly and it's like people think of it as like selling out but really it's like in order to get to the next level you have to play the game and i think there's you know varying degrees of what what are you willing to do to get to where you know what do you what do you want out of it what do you want to do with it and like how could you not you know if you if you love what you're doing

you'd love i'd love to play it on the biggest platform i'd love to play the stadiums and and all that kind of stuff that's I love it that's why I love playing that's why I still play at about to be 54 I still play 100 plus shows a year because I freaking love the fans and I love playing all the stuff goes away from me when I hit the stage like the weather's sick what I mean I've played throwing up in between songs I've played with kidney stones I meant like oh my god yeah I don't wish that on people. I don't like, but, uh, it's just been, it's been an interesting journey. It really has. It's been a, it's been a wild, wild ride from where it started. Let's go back to my space. So around my space is when you started dropping music. Yeah. And I think that's kind of like I was on my space too.

Shout out doll parts. That was me. Um, and I think that's kind of like I was on myspace to shout out doll parts that was me and I think that's kind of where I started getting in touch with all different sorts of music and all that stuff and that is where I've just where I discovered you because I was I was in on the west coast right so we had never heard of country rap and didn't know anything about it and then you know there's you it was crazy it was wild I meant to it was kind of uncharted territory and I didn't know I just knew that people know i just knew that people that i just knew that people that friends of mine or people i'd met that thought that had the same kind of ideas that i do i'd play it for them they're like shit we like this i meant

you know and that's where ride through the country came from and uh is that your first album yeah that was the first record and shannon and i had pretty much did most of that record in atlanta i have notes here that i'm looking at so don't think I'm like Atlanta because we did we didn't know anything about Nashville we didn't know how it worked and then we started coming up here and meeting with people and then the very first song I wrote in Nashville was with Jamie Johnson and Jeremy Popoff and we went to the studio the next day to cut it and I'm like well how are we cutting the song like I admit like all we have is a guitar vocal I'm like and I'm watching these session players write it down and Shannon and I are going what the hell are they writing down like I don't even know what this chart is I don't know what any of

this stuff is and then we go in there and they they go one two three and the music starts I'm like how did that come from what we did and we kind of went okay we need to kind of re-record the record so we went in and made a bunch of changes and right through the country came out and No Trash My Trailer and, you know, Dirt Road Anthem was on that record and it just started going crazy. Like on MySpace. Like a snowball. Yeah.

And I started, Brantley and I were both trying to figure it out. We had really only played some shows in Georgia and, you know, around there. And we thought, that's pretty damn cool to do that. But then all of a sudden I started going out and venturing out some other places and i'm i'm going man i just came from the west coast and there's people out there that sing that shit like they know the worst it was yeah dirt road was huge yeah i mean like on the west coast she's from the west coast too it just went bonkers like i you know we did we didn't know i mean we were trying to make this record and we we started average joe's entertainment and thought well the worst case scenario we have a couple of years to see if it's kind of like

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure it's like we'll go see if we can make this work and and here here we are years later with a huge successful film company and publishing company and record label and still you know still chasing it and trying to bring up some young kids and help them along. So when did you start Average Joe's? We started at the beginning of 2007. Okay. Because Shannon and I, Shannon had sold 40 million records as a producer.

I mean, he'd worked with Jermaine. He worked with Usher and TLC and all these people. But it was all Atlanta hip-hop, R&B stuff. So we were like, well, we know everybody in the industry. So we went out to LA and we know everybody in the industry. We've got good. So we went out to LA and we go to Warner Brothers and we sit down. There's like pop office, rap office, rock office. Where's country office? Oh, that's Nashville. Can you introduce us? Nope. Don't know who that is. Like it was so disconnected. We were like, oh shit, this might be harder than we

thought. Cause we thought we would be able to walk in here and they'd go, oh, well here's Jim. And you guys, and they were like, yeah, we don don't know who's we don't know anything about nashville it was like its own little island right so shannon and i literally just started getting in the car and coming to nashville we didn't know anybody here we just started getting in the car and coming to nashville spending three or four days and going to tin roof and picking up game yeah and you know and just trying to figure it out and meet people and grip and grin and you know and now we're pretty much entrenched in in Nashville so that is what made you want to start Average Joe's well no I mean it was just like when I started doing this music kind of kind of the first part I started doing it

it was like well we started playing it for some people and they're like this is really cool have no idea what to do with this right We don't know where to take it. Especially at that time, there's only one way. You put out a single, the major labels, and they take you, and you do the dance and country radio, and then you work it up. That was the only way. Which that is the most outdated system I've ever seen. It's not a good business model anymore. It's crazy.

And it was just, like I said was it was the only option we had right and which is cool because you look at jay's situation now like he was able to get that popping on the internet and online and people just and they just and then the masses were like you have no choice like we want this yeah and for me it was like there wasn't that outlet to get it out there to get me i mean you know you had again my space but it didn't really have the impact it wasn't didn't have that pop the like tick tock yeah it didn't have that pop the tick tock instagram half so it was uh it was just a different row different row to hoe i guess yeah but it's been fun it's been you know it's been frustrating at

times because you see and you go why can't i why didn't I get the chance you know why couldn't I do that and do you ever feel like that do you ever feel like these people that you have helped is kind of like a stepping stone um do you ever feel like they've kind of like left you behind even when they've gotten a little bit more notoriety than you have not really because I didn't I never I have never done anything with the intention of making sure you give me something back but what's right is right you know there is that and there's some truth to that and there's some there's some people that i think could help a little bit more but right i mean a lot of them don't have the stones to do that or to buck the system so to speak and go i don't give a shit what you want i mean i'm i'm down with colton i want you to help i mean and yeah, there's times when I get frustrated with it

because I'm like, man, I've done a lot. But I've never been on any award show. I've never gotten to do any. I've never done any of that. Which they're not all they're cracked up to be. No, and I get that too. Just so you know. Like I said, I mean, it's easy.

They're really hot and it's like a freaking big warehouse. I mean, I've gone to them a bunch, but I just have never gotten to really play on them. I've never gotten to do anything. That's like a dream of an artist is to get to play at a show. Give me the mic. I'm pretty good with just the mic. It'll be funny if you let me host it.

I mean, like, you let me and Jelly host it, it'll be funny as shit, I guarantee you. Oh, dude, that would be hilarious. But, you know, I don't know. There's times when, you know, and sometimes you get alone and you go, man, I deserve to get that or to get it. At least give me a chance. Yeah. Because for me, it was always where we're not sure if you're country. And I'm like, have you ever been to my show?

My fans are the country of the country. And then it was like, well, we. I feel like you represent the white trash country just, you know. I mean, I'm like, I don't know. It was always like, we're scared. What if one person, like I was at a station, like my dad's really never heard me on the radio. And he's 87.

He's not in great shape. That makes me sad to go, you know, with all I've done to go, man, he's never really got. My hometown radio station never played me. Oh, my gosh. And so it's like, yeah, that's frustrating sometimes. And I think at this point. When was the last time you needed to go to a doctor,

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be some of that but honestly i don't know it's beyond my control i mean uh you know uh somebody told me it's not my not none of my business what other people think about me i mean i just try to do my thing i try to do right i'm good to folks i play hard as i can when you let me on that stage i play hard as i can i love your spirit it's just the only way i know to do it and i love helping these younger artists and i love you know jump i've never charged anybody for features or nothing like i jump on songs and play with people because it's... I mean, you're with everybody. Let me look at this list I have written out for you. You have done...

It's fun. I've been lucky that a lot of them have said yes too, so... Yeah, you... I mean, who... What country artist gets a song with Kevin Gates?

Like... And it's actually a good song. It's a fun song. It's a great song. Hardy wrote... It's called Hood. Hardy wrote that song. Did he?

Aw, we love Hardy. I mean, yeah, that kid's brilliant. He's freaking brilliant. He is so good. I mean, like, we love Hardy. I mean, yeah, that kid's brilliant. He's freaking brilliant. He is so good. His wife, Callie, too. Love her. He's really, truly brilliant.

But yeah, you know, there's a lot of those. Like, I love what Morgan and Hardy and Ernest are doing. I mean, I think they're, I mean, and I love that they're sticking together. Yeah. I appreciate that. We love Ernest, our dog. I mean, you start talking about rap like earnest is oh i know about as dope as anybody i've ever heard so a lot of you guys don't know this but oh my god i'm

still getting attacked by this damn fly um a lot of you guys don't know this but earnest actually was a rapper yeah he was back in the day that's how him and jay met each other too was i knew they go way back yeah like when i first when i met him and started i was Ernest. I knew they'd go way back. Yeah. And like when I first, when I met him and started, I was like, holy shit, this dude is crazy good. I would love to hear Ernest rap now. Oh, he's still super dope.

I got to get him on the podcast and get him to rap. We did that song, She Gon' Do It, that I did with Angie Kay. I mean, he, he was right on that. He's phenomenal.

Yeah. He's great. He was right around Son of a Sinner too. I'm just, I'm just still trying to chase it, you know, and there's still part of me that I can't cut it off. I'm still that little kid that's just a huge dreamer, and I still think, you know what, maybe after all these years,

maybe this song will be the one that breaks through, or they'll play it radio. Radio, you guys need to play some Colt Ford. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I mean, it's okay. I mean, I'm going to keep making music. I would think as much as you have been in the industry and have the connections now, somebody would be willing to just give you a chance on the radio. It's been interesting. Like I said, I'd get some people that would play a song and, you know, and play, play the heck out

of it. And then I could never get it to reach critical mass though, you know, cause to get that spot up at the top, you got to play, you got to have everybody playing it not just a few stations and it was always kind of that with me you know but again i mean it there's times like i said there's times when you sit there alone sometimes you'd be lying if you weren't human to go man i had i never really have got the same opportunity as some people or i hadn't really got the flowers that maybe you think you deserve but at the same time i mean you get what you get you don't throw a fit ain't that what I tell my that's what I tell my kids yeah we got his baby girl here in the studio and uh yeah you know I'm just I'm still just tickled to be able to play music for a living I'm still creative I still

love making music I meant you know there's still some people I want to work with yeah that's what I was going to ask you. I was going to say, I don't think that you could stop. You're like a Rolling Stone. So it's like, I don't know how, I don't know how to quit. I don't really know how to, I don't know how to lose. I don't know how to stop. I just, I just keep going. I just, I love making it and long, and there's still people that come see me and we sell a bunch of tickets and

there's still people I definitely, you know, like, I hope me and Jay have talked about doing a record together. Jay loves you. My husband loves you. He's been super great and he's super humble and I'm I couldn't be you know people there's so many people ask me are you jealous that I'm like no that's my friend well I'm gonna be jealous of my friend like I've never I've never understood that like I don't want to I don't want to be that person like I'm happy for him and we're friends. So I look at it, if he wins, then maybe we write a song together,

and that wins because of that. You know what I mean? Not sitting there going, how come he got to do that? And I don't see things that way. Yeah, absolutely. I just love working, and I'm going to keep trying to do it. If you could work with anybody, because you've worked with so many people. Like, I don't know if there's any person you haven't worked with not really i mean who would you want to work

with i've been so lucky that these artists have taken time i meant like to work with me they didn't have to do that they believed in me they like me they like the music nobody i've worked with that i didn't have a relationship with either i don't like i didn't like the whole manager set it up with something like i like it to to be real. Yeah. It's very impersonal. Yeah. I just can't, I can't do business that way. Yeah. Like I wanted like, yeah, I didn't want somebody to set it up and go, how are you getting to go down? Like, I want to have Bunny's phone number. She has my phone number. People ask, I was like, yeah, we text. I mean, but like, yeah, it's just that to me, it's always been relationship based. Yeah, absolutely. To me, life is relationship based.

So I just, I just keep doing it. But there's again, yeah, like I'd love, I mean, me and Hardy have talked about doing something. Yeah. Me and Morgan have talked about it. I mean, I'd love, I mean, me and Jay have talked about doing something. Yeah. There's a lot of people I'd still love to work with.

Yeah. But I've always said. Is, what is like your holy grail of being able to work with somebody? I don't, I don't know. Like Garth Brooks or somebody? Well, I mean, that'd be pretty with somebody? Who would it be? I don't know. Like Garth Brooks or somebody? Well, I mean, that'd be pretty cool. I don't know what, I don't know. They seem to be mad at Garth right now.

So I don't know what's going on. What is the world not mad at anybody? I don't know. Yeah. I mean, it's, I don't know. How do you feel about the Jason? Everything you do is. How do you feel about the Jason Aldean situation that's going on right now?

I mean, if you grew up anywhere near small town, like I don't understand what people are talking about. Like that's right. That is the mentality in the small towns. Like it's all for one and one for all. It don't matter. Black, white,

whatever side. I mean, you go to small towns and you see stick together, high school football or something like that. And these small, I mean like that's, that's a big deal. Yeah.

Like in everybody for everybody. And they'll fight everybody from every town around there. I mean, so again, and I don't know the history of the time, but on the video and this, and I'm like, there's bad shit that's happened everywhere.

So I also know they're mad at Miranda Lambert right now too. Again. Yeah. Everybody's mad at everybody. It doesn't matter. It's the dangest thing I've ever seen. I just, we're damned if we do.

Yeah. There's just no way. So you just, I think you just keep playing music and you got, It doesn't matter. It's the dangest thing I've ever seen. We're damned if we do. We're damned if we don't. I think you just keep playing music as long as you can look yourself in the mirror and feel like yeah, I did the right thing. I don't know how you come out and say this and that. It's beyond me.

You can't make everybody happy. You'll be miserable if you try to do that. I'm going to assure you. I've given up. I've tried a lot to do that. I tell everybody to go fuck themselves. That I've tried a lot to do that I tell everybody to go fuck themselves yeah that is my specialty

now have a nice day yeah I mean that fuck you very much in a good Christian way yeah in the sweetest way possible

I mean that's I kind of and I'm I was very I used to take some of that stuff very personally you know

I mean it took me to heart and I would see people when the first record came out Hope Cook Ford Dies in a Plane Crash I'm like holy shit I don't know you I've never met you like oh no I read some wild shit I mean obviously you've I mean I'm sure you you've seen it I had

to tell my mom I'm like mom stop looking at this stuff yeah it'll drive you it'll drive you crazy because everybody has an opinion everybody has something to say and half of them are not good it's it's again people it's like people critiquing songwriting i'm like if you want to sit me down with rhett and dallas and you know people like that that have written jeffrey steel that have written multiple number ones and they critique my songwriting i would love to listen to that yeah but when it's somebody that's blogging lives in their mom's basement eats boogers and thinks wrestling's real i mean like what am i supposed to do with that i mean i'm just like whatever man i mean whatever i mean go write a song yeah exactly go write a song and see how far it gets yeah i meant i mean i remember

standing there with bobby with kid rock one night and somebody walked up and they're like all you did was take werewolves of london sweet home alabama and put it together and he's like well shit you should have done it it made me a bunch of fucking money. Yeah. You know, go do it. Go, Bob, go. Yeah, man, it's like, do your thing. Yeah.

You know, I'm just excited that there's music out there. I'm excited that I can still be doing what I'm doing. And, you know, to watch Jelly have all the success and selling out these, I mean, like, really connecting with something in music that's... Been missing. That's making a difference in people's life yeah when I get to that kind of stuff that's when I really you know I mean I've had multiple things with kids and make-a-wish and a dying

kids and they're going you you want to meet me like this is what you want to do like like it's hard to and so many soldiers i've done a lot of stuff with and and to see that and you know it's like that's that's incredibly humbling to me i mean and to go man you care about something i did made a difference in your life and to have a parent at a meet and greet go our son died last year in a in a four-wheeler crash and we played your music at his funeral it's hard to figure out how to respond to that like that is unbelievably humbling that you're a part of and they say they play the music because it makes them feel like he's still he's still with them and i'm going so i've been a part of

their happiest time in their life and their saddest time in their life and the music still means something so radio singles or not, I'm winning. I'm winning. If I'm making a song that people, you get that response. Brian Martin and I, who's a new artist that's really streaming like $7 million a week right now. Good Lord. He's never even been on the radio, never done anything.

We wrote a song called Help, uh it's really about mental health and it's about and he he's dealt with some issues just like i've done and i'm not i'm he but he's younger than me and it was troubling for him like he didn't really want to talk about it i was like we have to do like because people can relate it'll save somebody's life like do you realize the power what you know what kind of power that is absolutely i talk about my podcast all the time i'm a huge advocate for it and i think that's what happened with chris and i how we really linked up together like we both had a time in our life where we're kind of struggling with autoimmune disease and yeah let's talk about

the autoimmune disease so take us on this journey it's called um what i got diagnosed called myasthenia gravis and it affects the muscles in your face it can destroy your vocals it can destroy your throat oh my goodness and and it it messed with your vision like i could see you out of either eye but then when i looked at you together i'd see three of you melting like a lava lamp it was oh my goodness it was like tripping on ass or something like it was crazy and i finally got this uh intravenous drug this iv drug that i did four treatments of it and or something like it was crazy and i finally got this uh intravenous drug this iv drug that i did four treatments of it and it's like it just tripped the breaker or something

and so that's working i'm back seeing again it's hallelujah at the shows to be able to go i hadn't been able to see y'all i can see y'all now be able to take my glasses off and uh so yeah that's good but i think with chris and i same thing like, men have got to step up and be men more. You know what I mean? And don't be afraid. We've been raised in that, you know, you be tough, it's up and up, whatever. And it's like, no, it's okay for you to be vulnerable. It's okay to tell you some shit is bothering me.

Yeah. And I need to talk to my brother or something. You know, I meant like, you know, me and Brantley and I talk on the phone or something you know i meant like it you know me and brent when brantley and i talk on the phone every day when we hang out i just love you brother i mean like you got to be able to say that and i think i think men got to stand up and be like man it's okay if you're hurting bro i'll i'm there for you and you know we all need that i mean men women just in general just to be honest and go, Hey, maybe I need a little help. And absolutely. And so I'm still enjoying being able to do that and still growing and learning. And, uh, I'm, I'm getting, I found my person. I'm getting married again this year. He said, I'm getting

married again. You sound like me. I did it for it. And it was, and it was great. We, you know, it was way more good than bad. Who is she? Her name is Megan. Hey, Megan. And she's just an absolute rock star. She kind of saved my life. I love that. Sometimes it takes a good woman to come and lift you up when you're down. There ain't no question about that.

I mean, I watched my mama. She's about to be 80 and she still handles things like a G at my house, at my dad's house. And it's uh yeah so it it's been phenomenal to to have that and to and to find that person uh that you know sometimes you weren't sure maybe you'd ever find i mean and again there's people that look at it same with me just like they look at you and just like how did y'all it doesn't matter how y'all figured out it's how we it's how we do it's how souls connect yeah

it's how people connect it's how they react and how they treat one another and you know people are so caught up in the way this looks the way that looks it's like i deal with it every day several years ago it's funny so they used to when country weekly used to be out they did the top they did the top 10 sexiest men in country music yeah so they wrote 49 they had 49 people that were in there and they were and they allowed one write-in ballot so i got the write-in ballot and so and then it goes to fan voted right and i finished ninth yeah and uh jason aldean finished like eighth or seventh and i beat george straight and everybody and and eb mcfarland who was my publicist at the time was like i know y'all are

looking at colton going hey he's big and he's 300 but like sexy has nothing to do with like it's the way physical it's how you carry yourself talk to him for a little while as a woman and see if you don't feel like he makes you it's the way somebody makes you feel absolutely and i so that that was that's one highlight i only Jason only beat me by one and George didn't beat me and he's never spoke to me since so maybe that made him mad I don't know that is hilarious still making music and I love to see what you're doing I love all the success and how y'all hustle together and you hustle separately and together and like I love that I appreciate that so much.

If you could give somebody any advice that's going through an autoimmune thing, because I know you kind of glossed over it a little bit, but that was a really tough time in your life. I'm not gonna lie. It took me, it took me down and it took me to the point where I took guns away from myself. Like it, it, it really had me down. I mean, it, it, it had me down i mean it it had me down how long did you go the same way like how long did you go through it uh for about six months where i was like i was just i was just i don't know i was just i was existing because everything that i'd been able to do and that i loved all of a sudden just went away like i was still playing shows i put my glasses on close one eye people go oh colt was great he was drunk i'm like i don't playing shows i put my glasses on clothes one eye people go oh

colt was great he was drunk i'm like i don't even drink i mean i'm like but i couldn't see so my balance was terrible my my depth perception was terrible i had to make sure they taped up the stage what a fucking soldier though to be going through this and still wanting to go out and just make people happy yeah i can't stop playing music because this what am i gonna do sit at home like that shit that ain't to make me happy either. So I just wanted to work. So I played 100-plus shows like that. That's insane.

The doctor's like, you need tons of rest and no stress. And I'm like, well, that's just freaking great. 21-day tour, let's go. Exactly how do I do that and do what I do. Yeah. So, you know, I just kind of, I just fought through it. But it was tough, no lie. I leaned on some friends at times kind of, I just fought through it, but it was tough. No lie, man. Like I had, I leaned on some friends at times when I called them up and be like, dude, I'm

like, I'm not doing good. Like I, because I, again, what I love to do on the road was play golf. That was my escape from being on the road. I'd go play golf. All of a sudden can't do that. Cause I can't see. And then I hunting and all the other stuff like that being Brantley that I love to do. Can't do that because I can't see and then I hunting and all the other stuff like that me and Brantley that I love to do can't do that can't see and it was dangerous driving and then it was

just like he the doctor was like oh by the way heat really affects it too I'm like awesome so you know when I'm playing this festival and it's 97 degrees outside like I think last July we had 20 shows I averaged 17 hours a day sleeping. Wow. It was all I could do. I mean, I would sleep, wake up at 4 o'clock, eat a couple bites of sandwich, go back to bed, wake up 30 minutes before the show, somehow run up on stage, play the show,

and I'd be asleep before they loaded the truck. I mean, like I just, and I just, but again, Megan knew I was in a tough place and she loved me through it. She encouraged me when I, I don't want to be a pussy and cry on your show. I get emotional. I'm an emotional dude. No, that's good though. But like, loved me through that and loved me to keep going, you know, hanging there. Come on.

Yeah. Keep fighting. And got some medicine in the last couple months that has really made a difference. So I'm back where I can see. I can play golf again. So are good things are good you only you went through that because there was just a a blessing in the lesson and you know yeah you have such a great attitude about everything else that maybe we don't know what the reason was good bad shit happens to good people all the time but it does you're here to tell your story and the story is going to touch

so many people and i i want it to and again if i can leave that i mean it ain't about music new i'll come and go you know toby keith comes and go we all of us as artists come and go the music lives on the music is what it is and it's the fans like the fans that you made a difference in people's life you shook a hand when you know when they were sitting there. It doesn't make a shit to me. You catch me at Waffle House, I can eat a patty melt and have mustard on my face.

I'll take a picture with you. We wouldn't be here without that. Absolutely. That's how my husband is. He will literally, 200 people will line up at an arcade and he'll take a picture with every person. That's me. I've gotten in trouble. My tour manager's yelling at me for time to go

and that's the only time I ever get to invoke, like, by the way, I run this shit. We'll me. I mean, I've gotten in trouble. I've gotten, you know, my tour manager's yelling at me for time to go and that's the only time I ever get to invoke like, by the way, I run this shit. We'll go when I say so. Yeah. I mean, the bus ain't leaving until I'm on it.

But for me, if there's 500 people there, then there's 500 people I got to take a picture with. Yeah. And I wish, that's one thing I try to impart

and tell these younger artists like some of them that, you know, Tyler Farr grew up playing guitar. Tyler played guitar for me and was on tour with me. And, and, and to see some of these guys that come up and do well.

And George Burge is doing really good right now. And he's like, the people at radio go and boy, you train, you trained him up, right? I'm like, I didn't train him.

I just tell him like, be humble, be kind, be thankful. Yeah. This is, this ain't no damn, without them, there's no, I do this shit. him, like, be humble, be kind, be thankful. This ain't no damn. Without them, there's no us.

You don't just get to go do this shit. Like, there's a lot of work in it. And on the stage, people see that and they go, oh, yeah, that's great. And it is. But you know, because you're out here doing it, there's a lot that goes into getting on that stage. It's insane. And there's a lot of tireless and no sleep and getting up to do

an interview when you might not feel like it or sometimes y'all might be arguing and i don't want to be a nice guy today yeah but this fan right here or this little girl or this little kid they don't know that your job is to they want to see smiling jelly they want to see happy colt ford yeah even and so you got to be able to do that and not forget that like this, these people are what allow us to do what we do. I mean, I've dug a ditch. I don't want to do that shit. I've done other stuff.

Me too. We won't talk about it because there's little ears here. I understand, but you know what I'm talking about. Like this is great to be able to do what we do and to have this, to be able to make some music that means something to somebody. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big deal.

I'm just happy to still be doing it. I love it. I love your attitude about everything. So you and Chris are dropping a single or is it an album? Singles, we did it. It started out, we were just going to make a record together.

Right. And we'd never even met before. We knew obviously who each other was, but we'd never met. And we met. And then it was just like, there was just this kind of kindred. Yeah.

You guys both have the same sweetness to you. Yeah, just kind of this kindred brother thing. And it was one of those times when we talked together, it was like we both kind of needed this. Yeah. So I was able to encourage him with what he was doing. And then he's been able to encourage me. And so we leaned on each other.

And one song is like, well, let's make one more song and see what that's like. And then it's like, well, let's make an EP. And so the first single, Badass American, has been out for about about a month and now we're about to drop a new one called hits different we're even calling it smile music because it's just it's not good it's not misogynistic towards women it's not it's just two grown-ass men from two different places making cool music that sounds cool but feel good music kids could listen to it adults cool it still got swag and it's super fun so I'm gonna keep on making music today so somebody tells me I can't when does the whole EP drop is the whole

EP out the EP is gonna drop here we got this singles coming out hits different then we have one call on the 28th right yeah and then we have big yeah this is the next single we've already shot three videos then we've got three more coming after that. And I think the EP will probably come out probably end of the year here in the fall sometime. Just so people have it to look forward to. If not, there's nine other albums. Yeah, it must be the country just came out.

It's a lot of fun. So, shoot, I'm just making music. If you wanted anybody to go and download an album, what is your favorite album that you've made? If somebody was like, hey, I want to go find out who Colt Ford is. If they didn't know anything about Colt Ford, I'd say the easiest thing to do would be start with Ride Through the Country. I mean, like Ride Through the Country is the best.

It's kind of black and white. Like, this is who I am. Right. And every, there's a writer and a producer in town that's produced most of my records, a guy named Noah Gordon, this unbelievable talent. And when I first started writing with him, he had already had tons of cuts. He said, your first record needs to be black and white.

Like, this is who I am. And then the second record is black and white, and you add a little red to it. And then the next record is black, white, and red, and you add a little, so you keep adding a little color. And that's kind of what I've done. And I've been lucky that the fans have followed with me. Like, I mean, you see somebody all of a sudden try to go a different direction than people like whoa whoa what the hell is that but for me they've kind of

i've wanted them to love me you know i wanted i wanted to connect with the people like i see that with you with your fans because i read that stuff and i watch i watch jelly with the fans like you can tell there's a connection it ain't just about the song like yeah they're our friends they're friends and that's why i've always seen it like i see people at shows i'm like i've seen you 10 times this year i'm like my show's really good but shit it ain't changing it ain't got that much difference and they're driving five hours to see me again it's like that blows my mind that's so humbling so i think right through the country is a good explanation uh of who i am but this new record is 24 songs it's got a lot of cool stuff a lot more of me singing on my own doing songs by myself but i'm super jacked about the hood billy's thing because it's something fun

and it's kind of a sound i've never heard the whole sound before so i've never heard it seems to be your forte introducing new sounds yeah and that's been fun and so and chris is just such a freaking genius uh and obviously you guys know because he i meant oh yeah we love chris yeah with jay and had some success and tech all of them travis we love travis like i hope uh i meant like hood billies feels like we need to go do this shit on the road with jelly like yeah take hood billies because it's just it's just you if you ain't smiling when you listen to that you probably need to go lay on a couch and talk to somebody like something's going on with you yeah because it's just so fun and uh i'm just gonna keep on i'm just gonna keep on making music like i've been producing a lot of

younger kids uh this kid there's a kid named king jerome uh there's a young black kid from dallas texas lives on a horse farm like i love that ride's horse like that's what he does that's This kid, there's a kid named King Jerome. There's a young black kid from Dallas, Texas. Lives on a horse farm. I love that. Straight up rides horses. That's what he does every day. That's amazing. And he's kind of a country R&B kind of thing that's killing it.

And then there's a kid named Blake Fades from Oklahoma. I love Blake. He actually just DM'd me the other day. So we're... He's talent. His sound that we have created. Versus kind of where he kind of where he started for where he is now yeah from ardmore oklahoma which is where my fiancee's from which

is where megan's from yeah and this sound uh somebody asked me to describe it i said well if you mixed post malone the baby and co wetzel together and that's that's kind of what he sounds like yeah yeah and i'm like and they're like well that doesn't exist i'm like well yeah it does yeah we were producing his record right yeah and it's some of the coolest shit i know he's great i've i discovered him never heard anything like it my life like i've heard pieces of it yeah it's got a little it's got some little pieces of me in there yeah but then like there's just some other stuff where i'm going wow i've never heard anything like this it's super cool check him Check him out, guys. Blake Fade's on TikTok. He's amazing.

And yeah, just going to keep on rocking. I love that you're always helping the younger kids. If you had any advice for any females or males that are trying to come up in the genre or just in music in general, what would you say? Just be honest. You know what I mean? I know you've seen that. I know we keep talking back to Jay, but there's so many similarities in our,

in our musical journey as what we try to do younger versus where we ended up. Didn't happen. It almost happened. It kind of happened. Then it didn't. And somebody is going to help us. And then they didn't. It's kind of morphed its way into where it is now,

but it's like, it's just, you, you gotta be honest with who you are as an artist because quite honestly i know some friends of mine in this town that are not necessarily happy every night singing what they sing yeah and i'm like damn that must suck because it's not them right i'm like wow that must really suck but i've had an artist friend of mine a big artist that i'm sure y'all know yeah one time i was like he just finished a record i was like he goes well i love

half of it and i'm like what do you mean he, well, I love half of it. And I'm like, what do you mean? He goes, well, the label made me cut the other half. And I'm like, well, damn, that must really suck, bro. I mean, that is the one advantage I do have. Like, I ain't never had to record somewhere. I'm like, I don't want to do that. Right. That's not who I am. Yeah. Like,

so be honest. I mean, be yourself. Be yourself. Yeah. If there's like-minded people like you, then they'll find it. And now more than ever, you can do it without the labels and stuff. You can do it. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And I've told several artists that, you know, like, you don't need us.

You don't need anybody. Just keep doing your, keep doing what you're doing. Like, look it up, church. I mean, just killing it on his own. Ryan's great. He's so smart. Yeah. I mean, like it's, and everybody

can do it so many different ways now, which is cool. And it allows, and somewhere right now, there's some kid sitting in his basement somewhere and whatever little town making the hottest shit you ever heard that you haven't heard yet. And there's some beautiful young blonde girls going, I want to be bunny. And I, and you's she at tell her come on and they're trying you know I mean and that's that's cool I mean that's that's no I love that no we have definitely influenced the younger generation in the podcast area for sure I've helped a couple girls get their start in the podcast area so I try I'm just like you I try to game up everybody that I can and just help I mean any anybody long as I see that see that you'll listen and that you'll hustle.

And that's, you know, like with Blake, I mean, I spent it. He goes, you don't ever talk to me about music. I'm like, music's easy, bro. Like, you already know who you are. I'm like, I'm trying to tell you how to win at this game. Yep. And I'm old enough to be your dad. So I'm telling you shit that I'm trying to tell you how to avoid the snakes.

Some of them don't want to listen, though, until they go through it themselves. And that's true. And sometimes you just got to go, okay, man, I tried. But, you know, go do your thing and i wish you the best of luck yeah you just gotta watch some of the young artists i'm like i'm trying to tell you how to there's a hole over there don't fall in that hole there's a snake over there he'll bite you don't don't pick him up i mean like i'm trying to tell him that and that's you know it's stuff i've learned over a lot of years yeah trying to chase it and uh you know it's but it's it's still great to be able to make music and isn't it amazing stuff like this to come do things like this uh yeah yeah still great to be able to do it i'm excited isn't it amazing the the wisdom that

comes with being older because i'm 43 so and i look back at 23 year old me and 23 year old me would never listen to 43 and that's megan she's 40 She's 43. She'll be, I'll be 44 here. I mean, I'll be 54 in August. Yeah. That, yeah, it's, it's amazing what you learn. And I, you know, still trying to tell little girl here things that, you know, that you're trying to see you grow up. And you got to listen to him

because we do know what we're talking about. I promise. It might not make sense now, but it will. So many times I just didn't you know i think back and i i drop all these sayings on people all the time they're like i'm like my dad used to say my dad was just like the unbelievable motivator yeah coach and just made everybody like everybody loved him like they i was like i don't know if he was the best baseball coach but the players would run through a brick wall from him and that's for him and that's

all that matters that's way more they believed in him and he would just constantly say these things now that as i get older i'm like oh my god that's just that's so you know it's so you know it's just so good i meant like it's just it's so good he was just a little used car dealer i mean didn't come from much and you know but i meant he just said rents rents never he said success has never owned it's rented and rents do every day oh I love that every day you got to get up and get my new it's my new motto every day I meant like you don't own this you got to get up and get after absolutely so that's just now that I got it I'm scared to lose it because I've came from nothing you know so it's like I'll never stop right because I'm just always gonna the dream. And you've worked hard to get to where you are and you've overcome

a lot of obstacles. And I mean, that's one of the things that impresses me about you. I mean, I loved, I don't know all of your story. I know, I know as much as you let me in, but you're very open and honest with letting people know like, Hey, I've, we all, we've all, we're all sin. We've all fall short yeah for sure i mean we're none of us are really worthy but if you get up and go make the most of it every day and try to you know do something that makes a difference in somebody's life then shit even my dad would always say that he's like remember you're trading a day of your life today that could be important to somebody like you don't know who it is so take the time at the

gas station to say what's up and you know shake their hand so take the time at the gas station to save us up and you know shake their hand and take a picture so i just i try to never forget that absolutely tour let's talk about tour real quick i'm out there all over the place he's like i'm out here uh tell him tell him where they can like i mean just all how many more cities do you have i'm just playing everywhere fairs festivals like festivals, bars. It's like wherever. You'll see me. Barbed-edge, backyards, Bunny's house, wherever it is. I don't matter. Wherever they're playing, wherever they want me at, I'll play.

Do you have a set schedule right now? Yeah, there's probably 50, 60 shows still left on the books. Wow. I wonder if we cross on our tour. I don't know. I hope someday we'll be able to get out there and play some shows with y'all i meant well we're because we leave for tour on thursday so we're going to be out on the road but if you guys are playing in the same

somewhere yeah pop through and say what's up that would be amazing yeah i hope so i mean like i said i'm huge fan of what what jay's doing i mean i i love seeing it i love seeing the success i love seeing the the crossover i mean like that shit is just, it's cool to me and I'm proud of him and proud of you that y'all doing your thing. We're proud of you. Colt, thank you so much for coming by. You are just a sweetheart and I hope you just till the wheels fall off, man. Like you're amazing. I'll put some skis on and still push it down the hill.

Listen, you're out here playing blind. I believe you, okay? I'm going to keep working. Not anymore, but you were. I'm seeing that. Tell everybody where they can find you on social media. Just everywhere. You know, please trust the blue check marks.

All these fake pages, God Almighty. I'm like, anybody has to be. If you're hustling that much, you got to fake a Colt Ford page. You need to get some other stuff going on in your life. But Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all those, I'm out there everywhere trying to, I'm still trying to learn this TikTok thing. I'm, I'm a little old for it, but I'm trying to. I think you're crushing it.

I'm trying to figure it out. I'm still trying to figure it out. But, and then coltford.com. I mean, I'm out there. I meant to, and I will respond and we'll see it shows. We're out there doing it. Yay. Thank you so much for coming by.

It was my pleasure, Dawn. Thank you. Thank you for sitting in too. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.