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Colt Ford confirmed for the City of Hope 20th Annual Celebrity Softball Challenge.

Country music’s biggest stars go to bat in the fight against cancer every summer at the Nashville Celebrity Softball Challenge. Celebrating its 20th year, the event helps raise funds and awareness for City of Hope's lifesaving mission. 

Hailed as the unofficial kickoff to the CMA Music Festival, this high-profile game features country stars, athletes and celebrities taking the field to represent team sponsors Grand Ole Opry Live and After MidNite with Blair Garner. Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Clint Black and many others have all stepped up to the plate to help find a cure.

By Flint Journal staff

May 13, 2010, 9:21AM

Courtesy | For The Flint JournalColt Ford

— Christina Fuoco-Karasinski | For The Flint Journal

Jaron Lowenstein of Jaron and the Long Road to Love hadn’t heard of Detroit’s free country festival, the Downtown Hoedown, until a fan introduced him to it via social media. He was immediately won over.

“My fans were telling me about the Hoedown,” said Lowenstein, who in the ’90s performed as part of Evan and Jaron with his twin brother. “I learned about it on my Facebook wall. My fans kept saying, ‘Are you coming to Hoedown?’ I thought, ‘What is this Hoedown? I have no idea what you’re talking about.’ It’s this show. (Detroit radio station) WYCD puts it on.”

Banking on his hit “Pray for You,” Jaron and the Long Road to Love was invited to the event and Lowenstein couldn’t be more thrilled.

“It’s crazy,” Lowenstein said. “I saw this picture and it’s like cowboy hatville in Detroit. It’s crazy. It’s so cool looking.”

Established in 1983, the Downtown Hoedown, located in Hart Plaza, is widely recognized as the largest free country music festival of its type in the nation. This year, the event takes place Friday, May 14 through Sunday, May 16, and boasts headliners Dierks Bentley, Uncle Kracker and the Zac Brown Band. Other performers include Darryl Worley, who just returned from a USO tour in the Middle East, and Steve Azar, among others.

“I try to mix it up and make it different ever year,” said organizer Tim Roberts, operations/program director for Detroit-area radio stations WYCD and WOMC. “I know the history of it. I have the roster of every band that’s ever played and what year they’ve played. I try to make it fresh and interesting. I try and bank on new artists that I think are going to be hitting their stride by the time the event comes around, which is almost a year in advance. Then I just try to have some rock-solid performers that I know are going to put on a great show.”

Friday, Screamin’ Willies

As a music fan, you either love the concept of country rap or hate hate hate it. Lovers and haters alike should give Colt Ford a listen. If urban country is a genre that can be done right, Ford does it. On songs like “No Trash in My Trailer” and “Mr. Goodtime” Ford plays up the Gummo side of country-boy culture in the same way Gretchen Wilson embraced redneck womanhood. The 300-pound Georgian daddy is a former PGA golfer whose early commercial work included “Buck Em,” the anthem of the Professional Bullriders Association, and the “Huntin the World” theme song for the Outdoor Channel. His second CD Chicken & Biscuits debuted at No. 8 on the Country Billboard charts this spring, and features guests like CMT favs James Otto and Randy Houser, as well as rap legend DMC. Ford’s appearance at local roadhouse Screamin’ Willies may be the last time Columbus urban country lovers—and haters—can catch the artist in a smaller venue. $20 at the door.

By Chuck Eddy-March 11, 2010

"Country music is where old genres go to die—or live," English professor and record-guide author David Cantwell truth-bombed at the EMP Pop Music Conference in Seattle last month. He was mainly talking blues chords, but in the '00s, the old stuff could just as well have been old-school Sugarhill-style hip-hop, via Kid Rock or Cowboy Troy. So now it's the '10s, and we've got Colt Ford: a 40-year-old, 300-pound Athens, Georgia, ex-golf-pro who road-dawgs 200 shows a year, revitalizing the kind of greasy, mud-spinning, r-dropping flows heard on early-aughts Southern-rap records. Since December 2008, he's put out two studio albums, a live album, and a Wal-Mart-exclusive EP/DVD—all on his own grass-roots Average Joe's Entertainment label. Three of those are currently in the top 70 of Billboard's country album chart; his new Chicken & Biscuits just entered both the country and rap charts in the Top 10.

Across all those releases, he shows off his scope. He drawls like Bubba Sparxxx against chitlin-circuit swamp guitars, an electro boombox, and chirping insects in "Cricket on a Line," a fishing song that's more just a repetitive chant. "Saddle Up" sounds like Juvenile-style New Orleans bounce at a barn dance; live, he stretches it past 13 jam-festival minutes. He shares Waffle House patty melts with his long-crunking fellow 300-pound Georgian, Bone Crusher, above a butt-rocking Steve Miller riff on "Gangsta of Love," and swings into even bigger-bottomed '70s biker-barbecue boogie for his new "Mud Flap" and "Ride on, Ride out," the latter featuring old-school principal DMC. In the '90s, he made a gangsta-rap album with Jermaine Dupri that never came out. But now, he guest raps with hip-hop-baiting redneck duo Montgomery Gentry, and covers everything from Usher's "Yeah" to Kiss's "Rock and Roll All Nite" (with Colt on drums—the instrument that taught him beats in the first place) to C.W. McCall's bicentennial CB-radio novelty "Convoy."