{"id":10353,"date":"2014-06-29T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/?p=10353"},"modified":"2014-06-29T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:30:12","slug":"greeley-stampede-spotlight-big-and-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/2014\/06\/greeley-stampede-spotlight-big-and-rich\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeley Stampede Spotlight \u2013 Big and Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Big-and-Rich-Approved-Photo-NEW.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10354\" src=\"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Big-and-Rich-Approved-Photo-NEW.jpg\" alt=\"Big-and-Rich-Approved-Photo-NEW\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Big-and-Rich-Approved-Photo-NEW.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Big-and-Rich-Approved-Photo-NEW-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Big-and-Rich-Approved-Photo-NEW-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a>Quite possibly the most ostentatious music duo to come out of the country music scene in decades, John Rich and Big Kenny Alphin first hit it big in 2004 with their debut album <i>Horse of a Different Color<\/i>; the song the general public knows them for was the album\u2019s number two single, \u201cSave a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.\u201d Since then, the duo has helped shine the spotlight on the likes of singer Gretchen Wilson and hick-hop rapper Cowboy Troy (who will be playing alongside Big &amp; Rich and Dallas Smith at the Stampede) while putting out four other albums and taking some time off to work on their own solo projects.<\/p>\n<p>Rich came from a country background, being one of the founding members of the band that would become Lonestar, while Alphin made his own rock album titled <i>Live a Little<\/i> in 1999 and fronted a rock band called luvjOi. The two met in a club around 1998 and began to collaborate as songwriters. Years later, after performing background vocals on a Martina McBride song they wrote, it was suggested that the pair record as a duo. As of 2014, Big &amp; Rich will be releasing their next album, <i>Gravity<\/i>, sometime this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can catch the action on July 5th of the Greeley Stampede.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite possibly the most ostentatious music duo to come out of the country music scene in decades, John Rich and Big Kenny Alphin first hit it big in 2004 with their debut album Horse of a Different Color; the song the general public knows them for was the album\u2019s number two single, \u201cSave a Horse, Ride a Cowboy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[606,607,605],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Greeley Stampede Spotlight \u2013 Big and Rich - BandWagon Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bandwagmag.com\/2014\/06\/greeley-stampede-spotlight-big-and-rich\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Greeley Stampede Spotlight \u2013 Big and Rich - BandWagon Magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Quite possibly the most ostentatious music duo to come out of the country music scene in decades, John Rich and Big Kenny Alphin first hit it big in 2004 with their debut album Horse of a Different Color; 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