Big & Rich

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Big & Rich
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Big Kenny (left) and John Rich (right) in Phoenix, Arizona, 2023.
Background information
Origin Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Genres Country [1]
Years active1998–2008, 2011–present
Labels Warner Bros. Nashville, Big & Rich Records
Formerly of MuzikMafia
Spinoff of
Members
Website www.bigandrich.com

Big & Rich is an American country music duo composed of Big Kenny and John Rich, both of whom are songwriters, vocalists, and guitarists. Before the duo's foundation, Rich was bass guitarist in the country band Lonestar, while Kenny was a solo artist for Hollywood Records.

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Their first studio album, Horse of a Different Color , was released in 2004. This album produced four straight Top 40 country hits, including the number 11 "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)", plus collaborations with Cowboy Troy, Gretchen Wilson, and Martina McBride. Comin' to Your City was released in November 2005, followed by another Top 20 single the Vietnam War-inspired "8th of November" and two more Top 40 hits. Joining the duo on this album were Cowboy Troy, Wilson, and Kris Kristofferson. Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace , released in 2007, produced their only No. 1 single, "Lost in This Moment". Both before and during the duo's hiatus, Rich has worked as a producer and songwriter for several other artists.

After this album, both members went on hiatus and released solo albums in 2009—Big Kenny's The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy and Rich's Son of a Preacher Man . These also produced the duo's first Top 40 solo entries—Big Kenny with "Long After I'm Gone" and Rich with "Shuttin' Detroit Down". In 2010, Big Kenny released his second solo country album, Big Kenny's Love Everybody Traveling Musical Medicine Show Mix Tape, Vol. 1 and in 2011, Rich released the extended plays For the Kids and Rich Rocks , the latter of which included the Top 40 country single "Country Done Come to Town". Big & Rich reunited in May 2011 to release "Fake ID", a cut from the soundtrack to the 2011 film Footloose . A year later, the duo released their fourth album, Hillbilly Jedi , which produced the Top 20 hit "That's Why I Pray". In July 2013, Rich announced that the duo had begun work on their fifth studio album, Gravity , which was released independently. [2] [3] Another independent album, Did it For the Party, was announced in 2017 for release in September, led by the single "California". [4]

History

Prior to Big & Rich's foundation, John Rich was a founding member of the band Texassee, which later became Lonestar. [5] Rich played bass guitar in the band and alternated with Richie McDonald on lead vocals; he also co-wrote their singles "Come Cryin' to Me" and "Say When". [6] After Lonestar released their second studio album, Rich departed from the band in 1998, leaving McDonald as the band's sole lead singer. [7] Kenny Alphin (aka Big Kenny) was signed to Hollywood Records in 1998, [8] where he recorded a rock album called Live a Little a year later. [9] Although one of its songs was featured in the soundtrack to the film Gun Shy , [10] Live a Little was not released, and Hollywood Records held the rights to the songs for five years. [9] In the meantime, The Mavericks recorded one of Alphin's songs ("I Hope You Want Me Too") on their 1998 album Trampoline , [11] and Danni Leigh recorded his "Beatin' My Head Against the Wall" on her album 29 Nights . [12] Big Kenny then befriended Rich after meeting him at a club, [6] and the two began writing songs together. Their first songwriting collaboration was "I Pray for You," which they wrote in October 1998. [13]

Following his departure from Hollywood Records, Big Kenny recorded in a short-lived band called luvjOi, [1] whose lead guitarist Adam Shoenfeld and drummer Larry Babb would later become part of Big & Rich's road band. [14] In 2000, Rich began recording as a solo artist as well. He charted two singles of his own — "I Pray for You" and "Forever Loving You," which respectively reached numbers 53 and number 46 on the U.S. Hot Country Songs charts [15] — but his debut album, Underneath the Same Moon, was not released at the time. [7] The two then founded the MuzikMafia (an abbreviation for Musically Artistic Friends in Alliance), [16] a roundtable aggregation of singer-songwriters including Cowboy Troy, James Otto, Gretchen Wilson and Shannon Lawson. [1] [17] This group held its first official show at a Nashville, Tennessee, nightclub in 2001. [18] Big & Rich performed at The Bluebird Cafe on January 1, 2002. [19]

Among Big Kenny and John Rich's first outside cuts as songwriters was "Amarillo Sky", which was the title track to McBride & the Ride's 2002 album Amarillo Sky [20] and later a top 5 hit for Jason Aldean in 2007. [21] The two also wrote and sang backing vocals on "She's a Butterfly", which was recorded by Martina McBride on her album Martina . [1] [22] After McBride cut this song, manager Marc Oswald suggested that Rich and Big Kenny begin recording as a duo. Rich was apprehensive at first, as he had been told by BNA staff that he was "too rock for country" and was unsure of what major labels would think of Big Kenny's rock influences. [23] The two began recording songs together at a songwriting seminar. After they recorded a demo of "Holy Water", Rich was convinced that the duo would be successful. [24] They then met with Paul Worley, a record producer who was then the head of creative affairs at Warner Bros. Records Nashville, and Worley helped sign Big & Rich to a recording contract in late 2003. [1]

In 2007, Reservoir Media Management acquired the publishing rights to Rich's and Kenny's song catalogs. [25]

Major-label career

2004–2005: Horse of a Different Color

The two then began writing songs for their debut album. Among these was "Wild West Show," which they wrote before a trip to Deadwood, South Dakota. The duo decided to use wild West imagery to convey "an argument between a man and a woman." [26] In February 2004, it was released as their debut single, [1] going on to peak at number 21 on the Billboard country singles charts. [17] It was the first release from their debut album Horse of a Different Color . [1] Following the album's release, Big & Rich began touring with Tim McGraw. [27]

Big & Rich debuted their second single, "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)", at that year's Academy of Country Music awards. [28] For this song, Big & Rich employed Deaton-Flanigen Productions, a music video directing duo composed of Robert Deaton and George Flanigen IV. [29] Deaton-Flanigen and Oswald, along with the duo, decided to make "a big, big show of a video", featuring cameo appearances from Gretchen Wilson and Cowboy Troy, as well as a marching band and a dancing troupe. [29] The song peaked at number 11 on the country singles charts, [17] and the video was the most-requested on the television networks Country Music Television (CMT) and Great American Country (GAC) for four weeks. [30] "Save a Horse" was also a minor hit in Germany, reaching number 87 on the Media Control Charts. [31] ESPN also used the song as the theme music for its World Series of Poker . [32] They and Cowboy Troy performed "Rollin' (The Ballad of Big & Rich)" at the Country Music Association awards telecast, where they were also nominated for the Horizon Award. (Now known as the New Artist award, this is awarded to new artists who make significant commercial success from a first or second album.) [33]

"Holy Water" was the third single release, reaching number 15 on the country singles charts. [17] The duo wrote this song about Big Kenny's sister Charlene, a domestic abuse victim. [34] Finishing off the album's single releases was "Big Time", which peaked at number 20 in early 2005. [17] Big & Rich also released a special Independence Day single titled "Our America", with guest vocals from Wilson and Cowboy Troy, which charted for two weeks and peaked at number 44. [17]

Horse of a Different Color was met with generally positive reviews. Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic called it "wilder and stranger than most contemporary country albums of 2004," [35] and Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly said that "the disc really flies when Big & Rich just honor the straight-up rowdiness of Bocephus." [36] Country Weekly also gave a positive review, praising the variety of musical influences and saying that all of the songs worked "ridiculously well." [37]

2005–2006: Comin' to Your City

The duo's second album, Comin' to Your City , was released on November 15, 2005. [1] The first single, "Comin' to Your City" received a similar reaction as "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" had a year earlier, although rather than poker, ESPN utilized an altered version of the song as the opening theme for its Saturday program College GameDay . [28] The song peaked at number 21. [17] In its music video, the duo appeared in a guitar-shaped spaceship. [38]

Their next single, "Never Mind Me", reached a peak at number 34. Next came "8th of November", while only peaking at number 18, garnered the duo nominations for the CMA Awards, Grammy Awards, and the ACM Awards. The song was inspired by the story of Niles Harris. A subsequent documentary titled "November 8: a true American story of honor" was released also, debuting on Great American Country television network over the July 4 weekend. The documentary tells the story of Niles Harris and shows the making of the music video for the single.

An extended play of live studio performances, Rolling Stone Original , was also released in November 2005. [39] During a benefit concert held on October 9, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia to raise money for the construction of the 173d Airborne Memorial, Big & Rich were awarded the status of Honorary Members of the 503d Regiment of the 173d Airborne Brigade. The concert was the subject of a documentary on Great American Country in November 2006.

Also in 2005, Hollywood Records released Big Kenny's debut album and in 2006 BNA Records released Rich's.

2007–2008: Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace

In early 2007, the duo released "Lost in This Moment", which was the lead-off single to their third album, Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace . [1] "Lost in This Moment" became Big & Rich's only Number One single, spending two weeks at the top of the country music charts. [17] The song also began receiving airplay on adult contemporary radio and became their first chart entry for that format, reaching number 12.

They released their second single, "Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace" to country radio in August 2007, although it failed to make an impact on the charts, peaking at number 37; follow-up "Loud" became the duo's first single to miss the Top 40. [17] Another cut from this album, a cover of AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long," also charted at number 59 as a non-single two months before the release of the title track. [17]

The duo also released three live in the studio extended plays during 2007: Walmart Soundcheck, Rhapsody Originals [40] and Unplugged at Studio 330. [41]

2008–2011: Hiatus, solo projects, and reunion

In 2008, Rich announced that Big & Rich would go on hiatus while Big Kenny recovered from an existing neck injury. In the meantime, Rich said that he would release a solo album, "with Kenny's blessing." [42] Warner Bros. released Rich's second solo album, Son of a Preacher Man , in early 2009. [43] The album produced three singles, including the number 12 country hit "Shuttin' Detroit Down". Later in the same year, Big Kenny released The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy via his own Glotown label, and charted at number 34 with the single "Long After I'm Gone".

In 2010, Big Kenny released his second solo album, Big Kenny's Love Everybody Traveling Musical Medicine Show Mix Tape, Vol. 1 exclusively through BigKenny.TV and BigSouthMusic.com. [44] Rich released two extended plays in early 2011: Rich Rocks and For the Kids , both on Reprise Records. The former produced his second solo top 40 hit in 2010, "Country Done Come to Town," also peaking at number 34. [45] Big & Rich reunited later in 2011 to record the song "Fake I.D." for the soundtrack to the 2011 film Footloose . It includes a guest vocal from Gretchen Wilson, with whom the duo toured that same year. [46] [47]

2012–2013: Hillbilly Jedi

In 2012, Big & Rich announced that they would release their fourth studio album, Hillbilly Jedi , led by the single "That's Why I Pray". Danelle Leverett, formerly one-half of The JaneDear Girls, wrote the song with Blair Daly and Sarah Buxton. Rich said that he felt that the song could be the biggest of the duo's career. [48] The single debuted at number 24 on the country charts, the highest debut achieved by a duo since the charts were first tabulated by Nielsen BDS in 1990. [49]

Preceding the album's release was an extended play by the name of That's Why I Pray , which featured the single as well as three previously released songs. The EP was only issued on CD and available exclusively at Walmart. [50]

Released on September 18, 2012, the album produced two more singles, "Party Like Cowboyz" and "Cheat on You," both of which failed to make Top 40. In 2012, Big & Rich were nominated for Vocal Duo of the Year at the CMA Awards and in 2013 at the ACM Awards.

2013–present: Big & Rich Records, Gravity and "Did It for the Party"

In July 2013, Rich announced that the duo was already working on their fifth studio album. [51] Kenny revealed that their new material would be more along the lines of the music on their debut album, and that the executives at Warner Bros. Nashville told them that it was their "best material in years." [52] Early in 2014, the duo announced that a new single, titled "Look at You", would be sent to radio soon and that the new album would be released later in 2014. Kenny and Rich also formed their own record label, Big & Rich Records, to handle their future musical endeavors. [53]

On January 28, 2014, the lead off single to the album was released and the album title was revealed as Gravity . [3] [54] On July 28, the album's release date was confirmed to be September 23, 2014. In addition, the track listing and cover art were also revealed the next day. [55] The duo said that their decision to start their own label was the result of Warner Bros. Nashville's schedule not allowing for Gravity to be released until 2015 at the earliest. Rather than have the project shelved, Big & Rich opted to strike out on their own and release the album sooner. Of the decision to form their own label, Kenny said that "it’s the kind of thing we believed in ten years ago as the Musik Mafia. Just anyway to get the music out there." [56] The second single from Gravity, "Run Away with You", charted at number 11 on Country Airplay. "Lovin' Lately", a duet with Tim McGraw, is the third single.

The duo released a new single, "California", in April 2017. The song was previously recorded by McGraw on his album Damn Country Music , and his version featured them on backing vocals. Their sixth studio album, Did It for the Party, followed in September 2017 to largely rave reviews. [57]

Collaboration and special appearances

Since their first collaboration with Martina McBride in 2003, the duo has appeared on several other albums. Wilson and Cowboy Troy then appeared on Comin' to Your City on the track "Our America". Their third album featured John Legend on "Eternity" and Wyclef Jean on "Please Man", as well as Lil Jon on a remix of "Loud" featured on the album's iTunes release. Legend played the piano and sang a verse during the duo's performance of "Lost in This Moment" at the 2007 ACM Awards.

In 2005, the duo contributed vocals to a rerecording of Billy Joe Shaver's 1993 song, "Live Forever." [58] Big & Rich also co-wrote several songs and provided background vocals on several cuts from Cowboy Troy's two Warner Bros. releases: 2005's Loco Motive and 2007's Black in the Saddle . In 2006, the Hank Williams, Jr. song "That's How They Do It in Dixie" was released, a single to which Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and Van Zant contributed guest vocals. [17] It debuted one month after the duo's own single "Never Mind Me."

Rich co-wrote several of Gretchen Wilson's singles, including her debut release "Redneck Woman". He also co-wrote singles for Jason Aldean ("Hicktown", "Amarillo Sky", "Johnny Cash"), Wynonna Judd ("Attitude"), Faith Hill ("Mississippi Girl", "Like We Never Loved at All", "Sunshine and Summertime") and Keith Anderson ("Pickin' Wildflowers"). Big Kenny wrote Tim McGraw's "Last Dollar (Fly Away)", which went to number one in 2007, and co-wrote Wilson's "Here for the Party" with Rich. Rich has also produced for Wilson, Cowboy Troy, James Otto, Shannon Brown, Jewel, and the JaneDear girls.

Since 2005, the duo's song "Comin' to Your City" has been used as the opening theme to ESPN's College GameDay . In 2011, the song was reworked and re-recorded by the duo specifically for the event. [59] The duo also contributed to Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur with a cover of John Lennon's "Nobody Told Me" in 2007. That same year, the duo was also featured in a duet with rock band Bon Jovi on their Lost Highway album. The song, titled "We Got It Going On", was selected as a promotional song for the Arena Football League's 2007 season. In 2008, Big & Rich recorded a cover of the Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" for the compilation album The Imus Ranch Record. In 2014, the duo performed a cover of "Same Old Situation" on a Mötley Crüe tribute album. 2015 saw Big & Rich provide background vocals on albums by Tim McGraw and Clint Black. For the McGraw album, the song "California" was written by John Rich.

Discography

Studio albums

Awards and nominations

YearAssociationCategoryResultRef
2004 Billboard Music Awards New Country Duo/Group of the YearWon [60]
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [61]
Horizon AwardNominated
2005 Grammy Awards Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group - "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)"Nominated [62]
ACM Awards Top New ArtistNominated [63]
Top Vocal DuoNominated
Video of The Year - "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)"Nominated
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [64]
Horizon AwardNominated
CMT Music Awards Video of the Year - "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)"Nominated [65]
Breakthrough Video of the Year - "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)"Nominated
Group/Duo Video of the Year - "Holy Water"Nominated
Most Inspiring Video of the Year - "Holy Water"Nominated
2006 Grammy Awards Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group - "Comin' To Your City"Nominated [66]
ACM Awards Top Vocal DuoNominated [67]
Top New Duo or Vocal GroupNominated
Vocal Event of the Year - "I Play Chicken With the Train" (with Cowboy Troy)Nominated
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [68]
Music Video of the Year - "8th of November"Nominated
2007 Grammy Awards Best Music Video, Short Form - "8th of November"Nominated [69]
ACM Awards Top Vocal DuoNominated [70]
Video of the Year - "8th of November"Nominated
Vocal Event of the Year - "That's How They Do It In Dixie" (with Hank Williams Jr.)Nominated
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [71]
Single of the Year - "Lost In This Moment"Nominated
CMT Music Awards Duo video of the year - "8th Of November"Nominated [72]
2008 ACM Awards Top Vocal DuoNominated [73]
Single Record of the Year - "Lost In This Moment"Nominated
Song of the Year - "Lost In This Moment"Nominated
Video of the Year- "Lost In This Moment"Nominated
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [74]
CMT Music Awards Duo video of the year - "Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace"Nominated [75]
Duo video of the year - "Lost in This Moment"Nominated
Performance of the year - "Lost in This Moment" (with John Legend)Nominated
Tearjerker Video of the Year - "Lost in This Moment"Nominated
2009 ACM Awards Top Vocal DuoNominated [76]
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [77]
2012 CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [78]
2013 ACM Awards Top Vocal DuoNominated [79]
CMT Music Awards Duo Video of the Year - "That's Why I Pray"Nominated [80]
CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [81]
2014 Ride of Fame ImmortalWon [82]
ACM Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [83]
2015 CMT Music Awards Duo Video of the Year - "Look At You"Nominated [84]
2017 ACM Awards Vocal Duo of the YearNominated [85]
CMT Music Awards Duo Video of the Year - "Lovin' Lately" (feat. Tim McGraw)Nominated [86]

Filmography

Footnotes

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Darius Rucker</span> American country singer (born 1966)

Darius Carlos Rucker is an American singer, musician, and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band released five studio albums with Rucker as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members of the band.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kenny Chesney</span> American country musician (born 1968)

Kenneth Arnold Chesney is an American country singer. With 30 million albums sold worldwide, he released his debut, In My Wildest Dreams, in 1994, and has since released 19 follow-ups. His albums spawned 27 singles that have peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sugarland</span> American country music duo

Sugarland is an American country music duo founded in Atlanta, Georgia. The duo consists of singer-songwriters Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. They were founded in 2002, at which point Kristen Hall was also a member. All three had experience in folk rock: Nettles had recorded in the groups Soul Miner's Daughter and Jennifer Nettles Band, Bush had recorded two albums as one-half of the duo Billy Pilgrim, and Hall had recorded two solo albums. After Hall left in 2006, Nettles and Bush continued as a duo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rascal Flatts</span> American country rock band

Rascal Flatts is an American country music band founded in 1999 in Nashville, Tennessee. The group consists of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus, and Joe Don Rooney. DeMarcus is LeVox's second cousin, a brother-in-law of country music singer James Otto, and was previously a member of the contemporary Christian music duo East to West. LeVox and DeMarcus are both natives of Columbus, Ohio.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jason Aldean</span> American country singer (born 1977)

Jason Aldine Williams, known professionally as Jason Aldean, is an American country music singer. Since 2005, he has been signed to Broken Bow Records, a record label for which he has released eleven albums and 40 singles. His 2010 album, My Kinda Party, is certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). His 2012 album Night Train is certified double-platinum, while his 2005 self-titled debut, 2007 album Relentless, 2009 album Wide Open, and 2014 album Old Boots, New Dirt are all certified platinum. Aldean has received five Grammy Award nominations throughout his career, twice for Best Country Album.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jennifer Nettles</span> American singer, record producer, and actress

Jennifer Odessa Nettles is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eric Church</span> American country singer-songwriter

Kenneth Eric Church is an American country music singer-songwriter. He has released nine studio albums through Capitol Nashville since 2005. His debut album, 2006's Sinners Like Me, produced three singles on the Billboard country charts including the top 20 hits "How 'Bout You", "Two Pink Lines", and "Guys Like Me".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">8th of November (song)</span> 2006 single by Big & Rich

"8th of November" is a song written and recorded by American country music duo Big & Rich. It was released in May 2006 as the third and final single from their album Comin' to Your City. The song became the duo's seventh Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, where it peaked at No. 18, in addition to reaching No. 94 on the Billboard Hot 100.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lost in This Moment</span> 2007 single by Big & Rich

"Lost in This Moment" is a song written by John Rich, Keith Anderson and Rodney Clawson, and recorded by American country music duo Big & Rich. It was released in February 2007 as the first single from their album Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace. The single became their first and only Number One hit on the Billboard country charts in July 2007. Prior to its release, the duo's highest-charting single was "Save a Horse ", which reached #11.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jon Randall</span> American musician and producer (born 1969)

Jon Randall Stewart is an American producer, songwriter, and musician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Big & Rich discography</span>

Big & Rich is an American country music duo founded by Big Kenny and John Rich. Signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2004, the duo has released six studio albums, five extended plays, two extended play/DVD combos, three compilation albums and 20 singles. Their 2004 debut, Horse of a Different Color, is also their highest-selling album, certified 3× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and gold by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA). 2005's Comin' to Your City is certified platinum by the RIAA, and 2007's Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace is certified gold by the same. Their first EP/DVD combo, Big & Rich's Super Galactic Fan Pak, is also certified platinum.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joey + Rory</span> American country and bluegrass duo

Joey + Rory was an American country and bluegrass duo composed of singer-songwriters Rory Feek and Joey Feek, who were husband and wife. Both members of the duo were vocalists and songwriters, with Rory also playing acoustic guitar. Rory Lee Feek had written singles for other artists prior to the duo's foundation. The duo was the third-place finalist on CMT's competition Can You Duet in 2008. The duo recorded eight studio albums for Vanguard Records and Gaither Music Group and charted three singles on Hot Country Songs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steel Magnolia</span> American country music band

Steel Magnolia was an American country music duo that won season two of the television talent show Can You Duet. The duo consisted of Meghan Linsey and her fiance, Joshua Scott Jones. After becoming the top winner on the show, the duo signed a recording contract with Big Machine Records, and released its debut single "Keep On Lovin' You" in August 2009, which was a Top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LoCash</span> American country music duo

LoCash, formerly known as LoCash Cowboys, is an American country music duo consisting of Chris Lucas and Preston Brust, both of whom are vocalists, songwriters, and guitarists. They have released 3 studio albums, one each for Average Joes Entertainment, Reviver Records, and Wheelhouse Records. The duo has charted 3 songs on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and 13 songs on the Country Airplay chart. Their highest-charting single is "I Know Somebody", which topped the Billboard Country Airplay chart in 2016. In addition to their own material, the members of LoCash co-wrote Keith Urban's number-one single "You Gonna Fly" and Tim McGraw's "Truck Yeah".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Florida Georgia Line</span> American country music duo

Florida Georgia Line was an American country music duo founded in 2010 by vocalists and songwriters Tyler Hubbard of Georgia and Brian Kelley of Florida. Their 2012 debut single "Cruise" broke two major sales records: it was downloaded over seven million times, making it the first country song ever to receive the Diamond certification, and it became the best-selling digital country song, with 24 weeks at number one, until it was surpassed in July 2017 by Sam Hunt's "Body Like a Back Road". Their music style is described as "bro-country", which incorporates production elements from rock and hip hop music, and tends to cover subject matter such as partying, drinking, driving trucks and sexual attraction.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan + Shay</span> American pop music duo

Dan + Shay is an American country music duo composed of vocalists and songwriters Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney. They are signed to Warner Records Nashville and have released five albums, Where It All Began, Obsessed, Dan + Shay, Good Things and Bigger Houses. Of their nine singles, five have topped the Country Airplay chart and three have topped the Hot Country Songs chart. The duo have collaborated with Justin Bieber, Charlie Puth, Rascal Flatts, Lindsey Stirling, RaeLynn, and Kelly Clarkson. From 2019 to 2021, the duo won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Country Duo/Group Performance for the songs "Tequila", "Speechless", and "10,000 Hours".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kelsea Ballerini</span> American singer (born 1993)

Kelsea Nicole Ballerini is an American country pop singer and songwriter. A four-time Grammy Award nominee, she began having success in the 2010s, being honored with the Gene Weed Milestone Award at the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Rising Star Award at the Billboard Women in Music.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Old Dominion (band)</span> American country music band

Old Dominion is a modern American country music band formed in Nashville. The band consists of Matthew Ramsey, Trevor Rosen, Whit Sellers (drums), Geoff Sprung, and Brad Tursi. Their music is contemporary country with rock instrumentation, and has pop overtones.

Adam Shoenfeld is a professional guitarist, songwriter and producer based in Nashville, TN. Primarily focused on modern country music, his guitar playing has been featured on over 500 albums, and is closely associated with Big & Rich and Jason Aldean ("Hicktown").

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