Big & Rich Horse Of A Different Color CD

Guests:M.Mcbride/Gretchen Wil- Son/Cowboy Troy/Jon Nicholson

Big & Rich: John Rich, Big Kenny.
Additional personnel: Martina McBride, Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, Jon Nicholson.
Producers: Big Kenny, John Rich, Paul Worley.
Big & Rich: John Rich (vocals, acoustic guitar); Big John (vocals).
Additional personnel: Adam Shoenfield (electric guitar); Mike Johnson (steel guitar); Nicole Summers (flute); Michael Rojas (keyboards); Matt Pierson (bass instrument); Wayne Killius (drums); Gretchen Wilson, Martina McBride (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Bart Pursley.
Recording information: ATV Studios, Nashville, TN; Blackbird Studio; Dark Horse Recording; LOUD Recording; Sony; Starstruck Studios; The MOney Pit.
Photographer: Glen Rose.
Like many professional country musicians, the duo of Big & Rich -- Big being Kenny Alphin, while Rich is John Rich, a former singer for Lonestar -- are based in Nashville, but that doesn't mean they follow all the conventions of Music City. In fact, they throw conventions out the window on their 2004 debut album, Horse of a Different Color. They can certainly craft a kicking country song, as the backwoods ballad "Deadwood Mountain" proves, but they don't settle for that, preferring to spike predictable song structures with considerable doses of goofy humor or, better still, to fly beyond genre and concoct gonzo amalgams of country, arena rock, and rap. All of this makes ...