Paul Cauthen isn’t letting cancer slow him down. Back in February of this year, the country music singer announced that he was taking a break from touring through social media, and that the Black On Black Tour dates would be canceled “for the foreseeable future.” He had been touring in 2025 since January, supporting his fourth studio album (Black on Black) that released in October of 2024. The Texas artist, who is considered a modern day country outlaw thanks to his outspokenness about the current state of country music, decided to put himself and his health first. He later revealed in a lengthy post that he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, and followed that announcement up with another message sharing he was taking a holistic route in lieu of regular cancer treatment: “I will not be bridled. I will not be told what to do. I have built this with my own blood, sweat, and tears. I am shrinking this cancer by the day. I have had to go my separate ways with a lot of folks because they cannot get behind my personal HOLISTIC approach to beating cancer. I am ready to be back on the road. I am in the best shape of my life. To all you promoters and venues that put in the effort in these past shows, I had to cancel. You’re the first up! I owe you, and I’ll be there. I promise. We will be back. I am sick and tired of all the people telling me how and what I should do with MY body. I’ve never experienced it more until this cancer announcement. Everybody is different! Everybody has their own right. I am behind anybody’s approach with their own will. I stand behind anybody with cancer! I will beat cancer. That’s final. God is good. Remember, don’t let too many spoons in your chili! I have just begun.” A couple of months after that post from Big Velvet, he was quoted saying that he was “whooping cancer’s a**,” As the “Last of My Kind” singer later mentioned in that message above, he chose to go a different direction with his cancer treatment – opposing the thought of chemotherapy or surgical removal. He disclosed in a podcast interview that he was taking a lot of different supplements, as well as ivermectin, fenbendazole, and methylene blue. Evidently, that’s been working for Paul Cauthen. That being said, some in his close circle have looked at him differently because he’s chosen to go that route, and he’s apparently been shunned for doing so by people he used to be close with. There’s a lot that went into his decision to not go with traditional treatment (side effects, losing his voice, etc.), but he never imagined that one of the worst parts about his fight against thyroid cancer would have been the pushback on the decisions he was making about his own body. But on the lighter side of things, Paul Cauthen is apparently doing well enough in his cancer fight that he’s actually been able to work on some new music. To think that he was just diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, and now he’s prepping to release a new album is rather impressive. Big Velvet was excited to share the news in his latest social media post: “I cancelled a bunch of shows this year due to being burnt out and sick…. I got my health right and remembered why I do this in the first place. I’m called to do this. The Lord has blessed me in countless ways. I turned my back, I selfishly chose my way instead of just listening to the calling. Thankful for all of you who made it out to all my shows. We couldn’t do it without you. Boy do we have some songs coming for you! Album is about mixed and ready for master. The band is hot. The team is tight. It just feels right. God bless you.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Paul Cauthen (@paulcauthen) We’re all rooting for you Big Velvet, and happy to hear that things seem to be on the right track and that new music is on the way. The most important thing is obviously Cauthen’s health, and the fact that he’s felt good enough to put together an album must mean that his fight against cancer is going well. Or as he so poetically put it, he’s “whooping cancer’s a**.”The post Paul Cauthen, Who’s Been Battling Thyroid Cancer This Year, Has A New Album On The Way: “Mixed & Ready For Master” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.