Big & Rich - "Horse Of A Different Color"

[sabre14]

Track Listing:

1. "Rollin' (The Ballad Of Big & Rich) feat. Cowboy Troy (Big Kenny, John Rich, Cowboy Troy)
2. "Wild West Show" (Big Kenny, John Rich, Blair Daly)
3. "Big Time" (Big Kenny, John Rich, Angie Aparo)
4. "Kick My Ass" (Big Kenny, John Rich, Bryan Wayne)
5. "Six Foot Town" (Big Kenny, John Rich)
6. "Holy Water" (Big Kenny, John Rich, Vicki McGehee, Jeff Cohen)
7. "Saved" (Big Kenny, John Rich, John Phillips)
8. "Real World" (Big Kenny, John Rich, Adam Shoenfeld)
9. "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)" (Big Kenny, John Rich)
10. "Drinkin' 'Bout You" (Big Kenny, John Rich)
11. "Love Train" (Big Kenny, John Rich, Jon Nicholson)
12. "Deadwood Mountain" (Big Kenny, John Rich)
13. "Live This Life" (Big Kenny, John Rich)

Year Released: May 4th, 2004
Label: Warner Bros. Nashville
Producer: Paul Worley, Big Kenny, John Rich

This is definitely one of my favorite all-time albums. It's so quirky and fun that it works. The best pound for pound tracks are "Wild West Show", "Big Time", "Six Foot Town", "Holy Water", "Deadwood Mountain", and "Live This Life". The strangest tracks are most certainly "Kick My Ass" and "Real World". There's a hoedown medley after the actual songs ends that consists of odd lyrics and unusual arrangements. "Green green grass and a rubber Russian bimbo" is just one of the lines that raise your eyebrow the very first time you hear it. 

"Live This Life" and "Deadwood Mountain" will send chills up your spine. "Deadwood" is probably one of the best things they've ever written and recorded. "Drinkin' 'Bout You" is a song they wrote when they were broke in Los Angeles and couldn't afford the 10-15 dollar drinks in town. Love the throwback feel to the track even though it stylistically doesn't go to well with the rest of the album.

Just a terrific fun, yet deep and creative album that Kenny and John will never duplicate.

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Listened to this for the first time ever recently (yeah I'm a tad late to the party ) the only other album I had heard from these guys prior to this was "Hillbilly Jedi" so I didn't have the most favorable opinion of them lol. This album is great though, definitely strange and creative as sabre14 noted. I actually like the medley after "Real World". My favorite tracks here were "Wild West Show", "Rollin'", "Six Foot Town", "Live This Life", "Deadwood Mountain", "Big Time", "Holy Water", and "Saved". The only bad track here is Save A Horse, and honestly, I can overlook it. I'll have to check out their other albums.