Big & Rich perform at Coralville 4thFest

Big & Rich have made a career of being relatable and musically relevant since exploding into the public consciousness in 2003. With 2004’s triple-platinum “Horse of a Different Color,” they were able to tap into the best strands of a wide spectrum of popular music, filter them through their pens and voices, and produce a sound that is instantly recognizable. “Horse of a Different Color” produced four straight Top 40 country hits, including the number 11 “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy).” Big & Rich have recorded six studio albums and charted nineteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

Before Big & Rich, William Kenneth Alphin, who is best known by his stage name Big Kenny, recorded a solo album, “Live a Little,” for Hollywood Records in 1999 (released in 2005) and fronted a band called luvjOi. He has also written or co-written several of Big & Rich’s songs with Rich, as well as singles for Gretchen Wilson, Jason Aldean, McBride & the Ride, and Tim McGraw. His first solo single, “Long After I’m Gone,” was released to country radio on August 3, 2009, from the album, “The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy.”

From 1992 to 1998, John Rich was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist. After departing from the band in 1998, he embarked on a solo career on BNA Records in the late 1990s, releasing two singles for the label and recording “Underneath the Same Moon,” which was not released until 2006.

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