Colt Ford is one tough dude, and we know that because he is not only still here, but he is heading back out on the road to tour.
That’s amazing considering the fact that the country music star died twice — he was revived each time — after collapsing with a massive heart attack following a concert last April.
He has already stepped back on the stage, doing so alongside his buddy Brantley Gilbert, back in September. But Ford showed up on Instagram Tuesday to make another big announcement in his recovery process.
What’s up y’all, it’s your boy Colt Ford,” he says with a smile in the video he shared to his account. “Y’all come check me out. I’m going to be back out on the road this year. The devil couldn’t keep me down baby.”
Fans were ecstatic to see the announcement.
“Glad to hear that,” one person responded. “Best news I’ve heard in a while.”
“You look so health and well!!!” another wrote. “Hope it continues!!”
There were plenty of other responses like that and you can see them all here.
Ford revealed some of the details of his medical ordeal in late April when he called in to the Big D and Bubba radio show.
“It’s been a traumatic, crazy experience,” Ford told the hosts. “I didn’t even remember coming out here to do a show in Phoenix.”
Ford had just stepped back onto his tour bus after performing at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row bar when he texted his fiancée, ‘Hi baby.’”
“And then I fell over dead,” he said.
Ford said that, luckily, his band came out to check on him and found him. And, he said, Gilbert got involved in getting him to the hospital and, eventually, making sure he was switched to another hospital when the one they were at didn’t have the correct equipment to deal with Ford’s heart situation.
“He said, ‘I don’t care what you do, get him to the other hospital,’” Ford said of Gilbert.
Ford said he died during transport to the other hospital.
“They brought me back,” he said. “They saved my life. The Lord had more for me to do.”
He added that one of his doctors told him he would not have given him a 1-percent chance to live.
“He said, I would give you a .1 percent chance that you would have survived,’” Ford said.
“I had so much trauma in my body and my heart,” he said. “I had three stints put in (my heart).”
Ford, who has worked closely with Toby Keith, Jamey Johnson and Jason Aldean, has had his share of health issues. Taste of Country reported last year that he was battling Myasthenia Gravis, an autoimmune disease.
He also reportedly had eye cancer and had to undergo surgery three years ago to deal with that.
Ford, whose real name is Jason Farris Brown, is a former professional golfer. He has released eight studio albums with his first coming in 2008, and his most recent, “Must Be Country,” released in 2023.
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