Pop music spotlight: Big & Rich

With Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred.

July 23, 2011 at 8:35PM
Big Kenny, left, and John Rich of Big and Rich
Big Kenny, left, and John Rich of Big and Rich (Associated Press/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Friday: John Rich, you've just won "Celebrity Apprentice." What are you going to do now? Why reunite with Kenny Alphin for a Big & Rich tour, their first in more than three years. The duo will deliver "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" and the new single "Fake I.D." (An album is said to be in the works.) For what's billed as the Xtreme Muzik Tour, Big & Rich will be joined by their Muzik Mafia cronies Gretchen Wilson, the redneck party gal; rapper Cowboy Troy, and Two Foot Fred.

about the writer

about the writer

Jon Bream

Critic / Reporter

Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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