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Horse of a Different Color
Big & Rich List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $13.49
Audio CD - 04 May, 2004
Warner Brothers
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CD Tracks:
Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)
Wild West Show
Big Time
Kick My Ass
Six Foot Town
Holy Water
Saved
Real World
Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
Drinkin' 'Bout You
Love Train
Deadwood Mountain
Live This Life
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| Audio CD Description Country music had no bigger story in 2004 than the rise of the Muzik Mafia, a renegade group of Music City misfits led by Big & Rich (Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich, the latter formerly of Lonestar) and Gretchen Wilson. Both acts shook up Nashville's lethargic, formulaic format--Wilson with her take-no-bull brand of redneck chic, and Big & Rich with their eclectic, wild-haired blend of honky-tonk, rock, rap, ballad, and western, the shoot-'em-up motif for their traveling circus, i.e., Wild West show. Their debut, Horse of a Different Color, which showcases the pair's unusual high-low vocal harmony, is both funny and irreverent ("Kick My Ass"), not to mention clever. (They sing "bad word" in place of a rhyming epithet.) Boasting "music without prejudice" in their self-mythologizing "Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)," they reference Charley Pride as "the man in black," and trot out country music's first African American rapper, Cowboy Troy. Yet race turns to "racy" in the duo's hit single "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)," the disc's least interesting cut. The easy laugh and rapped stanzas overshadow the smarter lyrics on the rest of the record, which concerns itself not only with frontier justice, but, surprisingly, with old-time religion (Jesus, tolerance, and in a song about sexual abuse, "Holy Water"). Like many professional funny men, Big & Rich--accomplished songwriters and (now) producers--are dead serious beneath it all. Even if this horse opera of a novelty act doesn't last, look for them to shape much of what gallops out of Nashville for a good, long run. --Alanna Nash |
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welcome something different! If you're a fan of Toby Keith you're especially gonna love this band. They're so different from the music itself, their lyrics and the people in the band! What other country group has a self proclaimed 6 foot 4 black man in a cowboy hat rapping in their songs in english AND spanish? They are a great band, a breath of fresh air to the country scene. I've been listening to the CD for about a month straight and have not yet come close to getting sick of it.
And let me just say- Big&Rich put on one of the best shows live I've ever scene!
Fantastic and Fun! A fantastic mix of southern rock and today's CHR. "Hick Hop" even sounds as fun as it sounds. Big & Rich have accomplished what others in the past might not have been able to do in country music. In the past if it didn't have the tradition sound, a heartrending lyric, it didn't sell or make radio's play list. Thanks to Alabama, Brooks and Dunn, Garth, Kenny and Alan and others, southern rock and the contemporizing of today's country music is now mainstream. Shania, Faith, Martina, Lonestar, all are heard on AC stations across the nation. This outstanding CD from Big and Rich is the next level. Don't be surprised to hear it on more than just contemporary country stations. If your looking for a great sound for a party, or to cruise with the top down and blast your tunes as loud as the kid in the rice burner next to you, buy this CD put it in your "system" sitting on your "20s" and turn up the sound, loud. You'll be surprised how many will give you the thumbs up and a high-5.
Cowboy or Rock? I was driving yesterday in Kirksville MO, and listening to country radio, because that is all they have up in northern MO and I heard a song that blew me away. Save a Horse ride a Cowboy! I am not a C&W fan BUT... this song's lyics I couln't get them out of my head, and the radio station committed the mortal sin, they didn't say the title to the song. So I rode my mustang to the radio station in town and walked in the front door and asked "Who was that you just played about save a horse?" And the DJ said "If an old R&Roller like you would come into our station I'll give you a copy" Now I am a soldier in the army of Big & Rich, and I am waiting for their next release. |
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