Horse Of A Different Color

Performer: Big & Rich
Artist: Gretchen Wilson; Martina McBride
Engineer: Bart Pursley; Bartley Pursley
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: 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. Listening to any number of the slick chart-busters produced by the Nashville machine, one might wonder what would happen if all those immensely talented musicians and songwriters were left to their own devices, entirely free from commercial restraints. HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR presents a definitive and immensely enjoyable answer. Comprised of ex-Lonestar lead vocalist/bassist John Rich and longtime Nashville songwriter/scenester Big Kenny, Big & Rich stake a claim as country music's counterpart to They Might Be Giants (or perhaps even Frank Zappa), combining a dizzying array of styles and unorthodox lyrical subject matter with gleeful abandon. Charging out of the gate with a song that borrows from Limp Bizkit and prominently features Cowboy Troy, "the world's only six-foot, five-inch, 250-pound black cowboy rapper," the album careens from Jimmy Buffet-like party anthems ("Big Time") to AC/DC-influenced, double-entendre-laden rockers ("Save a Horse [Ride a Cowboy]"). Luckily, the incredibly high caliber of musicianship and unwavering creative spirit keep the record from ever slipping into parody. Instead, Big & Rich have single-handedly created a new hybrid genre that promises to inspire a host of similarly inclined free spirits.

Rolling Stone (p.122) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "Big and Rich are dragging country into the twenty-first century." Rolling Stone (p.141) - Included in Rolling Stone's Top 50 Records Of 2004 - "[T]heir real crossover secret is drawing on arena rock....Good-natured lite metal in ten-gallon hats." Uncut (p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[With] formidable musicianship and clever songcraft."

Founders of Nashville songwriting collective the Muzik Mafia, Big Kenny and John Rich took Nashville by storm in the early 2000s by consciously bucking every trend that Music City held dear. Infusing their take on country music with healthy doses of hard rock, rap, and a wacky sense of humor, Big & Rich have redefined what being country and being from the South mean in the new millennium.

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