Big & Rich Horse Of A Different Color

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Big and Rich’s ‘Horse of a Different Color’ has already gone platinum in the US, and is set to take Australia by storm. The universe of Big & Rich is a rollicking moveable feast inhabited by a cast of indelible characters, starting with Messrs. Big and Rich themselves. One’s a six-foot-three former carpenter with a rep as Nashville’s universal minister of love and a backlog of songs ranging from country laments to psychedelic rockers to something called “Disco Ball.” The other’s shorter, slyer and younger, a Texan with an angelic voice and a wicked gleam in his eye. · Big & Rich are the kind of genre-hopping, fence-busting, gully-whumping statement of purpose that doesn’t bust out of Nashville—or New York, or L.A., or anywhere else—too often these days. It may well be that true rarity in the music business: something new under the sun. “Country music without prejudice,” they call it.