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Hello and welcome to Behind the Rose Podcast. I'm your host, Blake Horsman, here with my buddy as usual, Eric Bradley. And today, we're talking to country singer-songwriter Colt Ford. Back in the day, pot farm was a place to go. Load the truck up hit the dirt road. Jump the barbed wire, spread the word. Light the fire, they call the girl. You may not know this, but Colt is a co-writer of one of the biggest hits in the past 10 years. His song, Dirt Road Anthem, was a number one for Jason Aldeen and was nominated for a Grammy. The song is approaching 10 million sales, and you won't believe how long it took Brantley Gilbert and him to write it. Colt's been taking a break during quarantine, but we're looking forward to his eighth album soon. Here's our chat with Country Star Colt Ford, Behind the Road. Thanks coming on to be a fun episode. Yeah, man, always.

I'm about to do it with you boys. The last time we saw you, man, was here at Denver at the Grizzly Rose.

You remember that concert? I do remember that. Do you remember that? Barely, man. I remember me and Ben going up on stage. I remember that. I do remember that. Now, do you remember that? Barely, man. I remember me and Ben going up on stage. I remember that. I do remember that you and Ben going up on stage. Yeah. That was right after your illustrious summer. Yeah. That's a good word for illustrious. I'm going to use that. You see how I did that? Yeah, I mean, I twisted it all together. So it sounds mysterious.

That was very polite.

Mysterious and sexy at the same time.

I think that was pretty much the first time we had met. But you'd know, Eric, how long have you known? How have you got long? Have you got long of you guys known each other? Oh, man. has to be about what four or five years now longer than that maybe maybe last time with me and brantley and just

probably four or five years at least yeah that's up a red rocks i believe yeah that's been a minute

i don't know i'm so confused on time right now with everything i'm not sure where i do know i'm at

my mom's house but i don't necessarily know what day it is or what year it is.

There's today, tomorrow, and yesterday. That's it. Yeah, I know what it. I know what it ain't. It ain't 20-20 anymore. So that's Hallelujah, man. You know, kidding. So what's pretty cool that came out of your guys' relationship, though, was you meeting Ben Higgins and then he ended up on one of your music videos. Is that right? I don't know if that's cool that I really.

It's more cooler for Ben, not really to me.

No, yeah, it was great.

I met Ben and what a great guy.

And it's funny how things, you know, when you, when you meet cool people or an establish, and for me, I'm a relationship guy. Like, I don't care what you do. I don't care if you play sports, sold 100 million records, you know, hang out with lots of hot chicks like you do. I mean, I don't care. I mean, I just like good people. And Eric was such a cool guy. We became friends friends and that led to Ben. And, you know,

then Ben, I had an idea for this video. He comes to do the video. Ben ends up meeting the love

of his life there in Nashville. I mean, that was the first time he'd spend any time with her. So I'm

pretty much responsible for Ben's entire career, really. I totally forgot. I actually remember talking to him when he was down there filming with you and him saying he was like yeah i'm kind of seeing a girl too i was like oh damn so yeah you that is all on you for yeah he met her and then he can't he was like yeah i didn't know why he was so excited to come do the video until he got there and i saw her i'm like oh you can, you can care less about my video. You just wanted me to buy a ticket and come hang out with this girl. Dude, you got to make a speech or something at their wedding. Yeah, you got to make a speech. Great guy. It's been great to get to meet, you know, great to meet you and hang out and me and eat talk all the time we've become really really good friends

that's awesome man that's pretty cool speaking about that music video still like he was a teacher

and you're a janitor yeah well that's if you looked at us side by side that's probably what you

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