Colt Ford – Answer to No One

Buddy South

The evening started with Buddy South a band that is comprised of five members from Oklahoma, Kansas and Virginia. Buddy South is an Oklahoma City based outlaw country band that combines the fundamentals of rock and roll with the traditions of country music. The band refers to their sound as “Cowtown Rock.” Driving the band’s sound is their approach of duo guitar and sweeping pedal steel guitar. Baritone vocals deliver the bands lyrics that are drawn from real life experiences that are very relatable; the songs celebrate the pleasures of a simple life and empathize with the hardships that go along with it. Check out their debut album “Exchange and Rockwood.”

I was looking forward to seeing Colt Ford again, and the band did not disappoint. The band has charted six times on the Hot Country Songs charts. Colt Ford, whose birth name is Jason Farris Brown has and is still making his career in country rap, he released six albums which he co-founded and even was nominated for the Academy of Country Music Award in 2011. This retired professional golfer did the right thing when he decided to retire his golf clubs and make music his new career.

With the American flag hanging down his microphone stand, Colt opened up the show with the song “It’s All” followed by “Mr. Goodtime” and “Answer to No one”. It was so interesting to have this cowboy looking country guy performing rap but that made the show just so much better. After a great start; the band got on a roll and pumped out some great tunes with “Highlife”, “Back”, “Crank it Up” and “My Truck”. Time flew by listening to all of the different songs and the show ended fittingly with the song “Time Flies”. Just looking around it was evident that everybody enjoyed the country/rap mix style of music. No one wanted to go home yet and by the applause and cheering of the crowd it was obvious to the band that they wanted more. Hell, the band even gave us another medley starting with “Satch Boogie” and ending with “Can’t you see”. At the end of the night we got an amazing encore; the band finished the night off with Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Gimme Three Steps” and Brantley Gilbert’s song “Dirt Road Anthem” which actually featured Colt Ford on the recorded version. The highlight of Colts show was when he played “We the People” which is his latest single, released May 10^th. All in all it was a super entertaining evening and like Colts song said Time Flies.