Big & Rich November 1, 2007

Big Kenny and John Rich together are playing the kind of genre-hopping, fence-busting, gully-whumping kind of music that they call "Country music without prejudice." You can find out what it's all about on their release, 'Horse of a Different Color.' Troy Coleman, aka Cowboy Troy, entered the country music fan's consciousness with the multi-lingual breakdown in the middle of 'Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich),' the opening track to multi-platinum-selling labelmates Big & Rich's 2004 release 'Horse of a Different Color.' However, he had been on the Texas circuit long before that. During his years at the University of Texas, he started playing clubs with a blend of rap and country music that would come to be known as "hick-hop."