Like so many music acts, Old Dominion found its world turned upside down when the pandemic hit in 2020 and touring was shut down. Not only that, the situation nearly sapped the life out of being Old Dominion altogether.

“We found ourselves doing a lot of the stuff that it takes to be in a band that is not fun, without being able to do the stuff that was fun,” lead singer/guitarist Matthew Ramsey recalled in a recent phone interview. “It just became, every decision and every meeting, it’s tough to connect over Zoom and conference calls, and we just lost that connection.”

Today, the good times are back for Ramsey and his bandmates, guitarist/keyboardist Trevor Rosen, guitarist Brad Tursi, drummer Whit Sellers and bassist Geoff Sprung, as they have maintained a busy touring schedule ever since the band got the green light to tour again.

That tour comes Friday to the Ford Amphitheater in Colorado Springs.

“I feel like in a lot of ways we’ve sort of finally gotten our lives back a little bit” Ramsey said. “We genuinely love what we do, and the best way to connect with people is to just be authentic on stage and have a great time doing what we love. That tends to rub off on people.”

The rebound began in September 2020, when the band members arrived at Echo Mountain Recording studio in Asheville, N.C., created a bubble in which to safely be together and set out to rekindle the creative spark. That session resulted in the 2021 album “Time, Tequila & Therapy,” and Old Dominion then returned to the studio and made an 18-song album, “Memory Lane,” which was released October 2023.

The band has since gone on to compile a 31-track collection, “Odies But Goodies,” which was released last September and is made up of obscure tracks and fan favorite songs from their catalog.

Now Old Dominion is back on the road, bringing out what Ramsey hopes will be a crowd-pleasing selection of songs.

“We have a really good problem of too many songs. And we have, thankfully, a lot of hits that fill the set. So of course, we want those in there,” Ramsey said of the set list. “And then we try to make space for new material and we have a few spots in our set where we try to make it interchangeable with some of the old material too, because we want to honor our fans with that.”