Colt Ford Serves Up Tasty ‘Chicken & Biscuits’

Colt Ford releases his sophomore album, 'Chicken & Biscuits,' today (April 20), and the recipe includes a few special ingredients, namely Darryl Worley, Randy Houser, James Otto, Joe Nichols, Josh Gracin and DMC of Run-DMC.

"Those are my buddies, and they came and sang on those songs because they liked them, and they dig me and they realize it's honest and real," Colt tells The Boot. "It's not something slicked up and made up or created in some laboratory. It's just a fat dude from Georgia trying to make country music the best that he can, and they don't mind being a part of it."

The former professional golfer always had a love and a passion for music, and one day, he decided to change careers and dove head first into the world as a musician. Many have tried to characterize his music or put it in a box, but there's one label he'd like to avoid.

"I don't like people calling me a country rapper." Colt says emphatically. "I asked people, 'Did you call Johnny Cash a country rapper, or Charlie Daniels or Toby Keith 'I Wanna Talk About Me?' Is he a country rapper? No. That is exactly what I do. I get in that argument. They say, 'Well, you don't sing.' Well, Aerosmith sings, are they country? Is Kiss a country group? They sing ... No! Well, stop saying that. They're just saying it out of knee-jerk reaction. If you give me a valid argument, hell, I'll listen it. But don't make up something that's not real, because it's different."

For Colt's second disc, he wanted to turn it up a notch. "The first record, if you want to have a career, should be black and white, like this is who I am," he explains. "And I felt like that's what I did with 'Ride Through the Country,' I pretty much wrote it myself, because I didn't think anybody was silly enough or totally understood what I was doing. And this next record, I wrote with a lot of different people and I wanted it to be black and white with a little red. And then the next one, I want it to be black, white and red with a little bit of green. But I haven't changed who I am as an artist. So ... when you hear these songs, you look at me and go, 'Yeah, that dude's [music] is life. That's really what he knows about.'"

"For this album, I want them to realize that it's still me being who I am, but I've grown a little bit as an artist and a writer," Colt clarifies. "I'm still giving them the stuff that they want, but I'm giving them some new stuff and hopefully, they can grow with me."

You can catch Colt performing some of his songs from the new album 'Chicken & Biscuits' when he plays a show in Clemson, S.C., on Thursday (April 22).

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