Colt Ford’s dramatic comeback from a massive heart attack that killed him twice — he was brought back by doctors each time — last year continues.
The latest news was shared by the popular country music singer this week, as he posted a series of videos of himself in the studio and announced that new music was on the way. That’s a big moment for any performer, but again, for a guy who has been through what Ford has, it’s just a bit sweeter.
“I’m back baby,” Ford says in one of the videos. “I’ve been working hard. I’ve been down here working hard so that I can get back to y’all, and I got some new music for y’all. Brand new song called ‘Hell Out Of It’ with my buddy Michael Ray. So, whatever you doing you better be living.”
Fans loved seeing the announcement which came weeks after Ford also announced he was returning to touring this year.
Ford collapsed following a show in early April of 2024. He revealed some of the details of his medical ordeal later that month when he called in to the Big D and Bubba radio show from his hospital bed.
“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.
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.