Country music singer shares ‘sad news’ in cancer battle: ‘It’s snuck back up’

Nat Myers returned to social media this week to share some news about his latest round of cancer scans. The 35-year-old country and blues singer announced he was awaiting the results of the new scans on Tuesday, and the next day he told fans he had to leave the road to focus on treatment.“Sad news,” he wrote on Facebook. “I have to drop out of the remaining dates I have with Charley Crockett & the blue drifters, including tonight in Orlando. I’m really sorry to do this, but after the results from yesterday I have some last minute appointments that have to happen, that make it impossible for me to be out where I want to be playing music for yall for the leave the Age of the Ram tour. I wanna thank Charley & the Crockett team for all their accommodation. They some my favorite people in this music thing. If you got a ticket, I insist you keep going out if you was planning on seeing me, they is some the best out there doing it & you won’t forget it. I’ma keep you posted. My apologies. I’ll be back out when I can. For now I gotta focus on getting ahead of this thing, it’s snuck back up. “I’m really lowdown about it, but gotta do what’s gotta be done.”It came just a day after Myers shared a video of himself strumming his guitar and singing during a chemotherapy session.“I don’t always bring my guitar to treatment, partially cuz I just want to sleep through the askewness chemo puts on you,” he wrote on Facebook alongside the video. “But when I wrote 2nd Daddy I sure had to. I couldn’t stop, and still can’t stop playing it. Y’all really ginned me up on this hospo take. Made a bad day more sustainable, made some hard months a little easier. I gotta lotta friends among strangers, and you can count me family. Thanks for helping me through through some of those humps. So I put this hospital take on 2nd Daddy today, on the eve of my new scans. Wish me luck. After this, I’m gonna work on coming out with a proper record. Thank you for the support, and prayers, I got plenty of em now — now , gimme your blues. I sure ain’t hesitating to give you mine. #deltablues #cancer #folkmusic.”Fans were quick to respond with support and love.“Stage 4 Home Hospice here …. I got 99 problems, but being alive today ain’t one of them,” Darrin Danejuh replied. “Enjoy life every day and keep doing what you do!”“Never really listened to this type of music … great up on country and bluegrass that my family sat around playing,” Linda Marie Noble Dean replied. Gave you a listen here and … well, your voice and playing are addictive. Keep up the good vibes and IU’ll be praying for ya.”“Hey Nat — you always pick me up,” Steven Joseph Fadden wrote. “After 54 years picking I still can’t read a note of music and I only flat pick and write song lyrics. Listening to you brightens me up. I’ve come to accept that I only need to be good at what I do endeavor. The rest takes care of itself. Hang in there!”There were plenty more comments like that, and you can see them as well as Myers’ post here. Myers has been battling cancer for more than a year, and despite that he has managed to stay busy. He recently released a new single and also announced that he is planning to release a new album. Myers has also occasionally given fans a glimpse into the mental battle that comes along with the disease, and he did just that again in a post prior to his most recent. “One of them days you wake up tired like you stepping on a trapdoor in the floor of your bones,” he wrote on Facebook. “A loneliness aches in you like an old companion that won’t stop knocking on your door. You break your own heart, frustrated at your circumstances, envisioning the light and life you wanted vs the dark inertias you currently wade. But every day you get stronger, even with death sitting like a wolf in the shade of your heart, even when your eyes have difficulty making sense of the shadows that dog your path. Don’t be like me, sinking into yourself, wading in your woebegone-ness, feeling like you witnessing life go on without me. I know it well. Watching love move on from this minefield kind of living. I make mine my enemies and deny the better parts of us. Is it any better to recognize it, if the agony sustains? “Today I woke up with a punch in my gut,” he continued. “I get asked all the time what the end goal of this is for me. Music, cancer — hell I ain’t too sure. I know my hearse will cut a lonesome figure headed to my grave. I know there’s work left to do. I know there is music and living left to know. Even with pain, these days and struggles that nearly drive me to my early death — I survive em, and try to transfigure this heartbreak into something more than just tis passing pain — as for me I’m glad & hopeful you will never know what im going thru, or talkin about, but I promise yal, despite these things, im still sitting on top of the world.”It all comes weeks after Myers returned to the road, having shared that the cancer in his lungs had grown and pushed him into a new round of treatments.“Back on the road, bad luck at my heels after a needed weekend with friends and family,” he wrote on Facebook. “Headed to Eureka Springs, Arkansas tonight. If you make an exodus to Frank Stanfords grave, that’s my thumbpick sitting on his stone. Lollapalooza next week. Hunter Walls and Casey Campbell will be joining me. Getcha on out, I’m in a handshaking shoot the shit kinda mood.”He shared a video prior to that, strumming his guitar and putting his talent on display, despite a warning from doctors.“I had chemo this Tuesday & a biopsy on my lung Wednesday & all that to say it’s got me takin it easy,” he wrote alongside the video. “Docs didn’t tell me I couldn’t sang, but to be fair they didn’t say I could neither. Said I’d cough up some blood but then I’d be good and that’s what happened. I think I’m good but knock on wood. Last week I was feeling a little sorry for myself but hangs north the border at Winnipeg got me feelin ten toes down.“But all that to say I’m up early thinking loving country blues says something about you,” he continued. “It ain’t so much an interest it’s getting thrown into a kind of cahoots. Like knowing a kind of secret language, we are all widows sons and daughters. When I tell those in the know, I’m always offered a bed, or a pallet, or invited to the birthday party. I offer the same. It’s just part the deal, I wade the same river. We know we are all back-alley searchers, lowdown and glad for it. A kind of sign of goodwill, a candle in the window. We know the meanings of certain signs and symbols. Hang your light high, when the way gets dark, you likelier to find a friend that not. Blessed to be forgotten type. American, Spain, Japan, where all, Antarctica, too, bet your ass someone’s listened to least kindhearted blues. I’m sure there’s exceptions to the rule, sometimes ain’t nobody can just get along, but that’s mostly the facts as I seen em rambling around.”Myers previously said he has intimal sarcoma. The Sarcoma Foundation of America said intimal sarcoma is “a rare, aggressive malignant tumor originating in the inner lining of large blood vessels or the heart.”“The main thing is in my pulmonary artery,” Myers wrote on Facebook. “If that sounds stressful, it’s cuz it is. I have undergone dozens of chemo infusions since I was first diagnosed in 2025, including red devil, ifosfamide, and until recently a combo called gem-tax. I received eleven cycles of gem-tax, before fluid buildup in my lungs last month led us to change things up.”