" Yo! - ladies and gentlemen - check this out! White rap is a centuries-old tradition; the original white rappers were square-dance callers improvising rhymes for Saturday-night barn parties in America's rural bckwaters. Like today's rappers, they were seen as debauchers, imperiling the morals of the young. The fiddle was "the instrument of the devil"; church leaders banned it. The callers' freestyle rhymes teased with erotic innuendoes ("Duck for the oyster/Dig for the clam/Knock a hole in the old tin can"). The stuff they taught you in the grade-school gymnasium, that cornball mountain music with the do-si-dos - it was ...

The music video for TNA IMPACT WRESTLING star “Cowboy” James Storm’s entrance theme music “Longnecks and Rednecks,” featuring Montgomery Gentry, Cowboy Troy and Sean Patrick McGraw, will be debuting Thursday, March 29 during IMPACT WRESTLING, which airs at 9:00 p.m. EST on SPIKE TV. The song is performed by TNA Knockout Music Vice President Serg [...]

The Professional Bull Riders announced that Big & Rich with special guest Cowboy Troy have been added to the PBR Built Ford Tough Series Last Cowboy Standing event at Ford Field on March 10, 2012. Big & Rich with special guest Cowboy Troy will perform at 8 PM, prior to the world's top ranked bull

This Friday, country duo Big & Rich's "Xtreme Muzik Tour" hits the Mystic Amphitheater (8PM, $25-49), with openers Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred. Say what?

Big & Rich, is shooting their new intro for their hit song Coming to Your City on ESPN's College GameDay show today at Full Sail University in Florida. The song has been the theme song for College GameDay, which is entering its 25th season - for six consecutive years and includes revised lyrics for the season's top college teams. The intro includes a special guest appearance from Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred....

Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson will hit the road for Xtreme Muzik The Tour beginning June 18. The show will visit over 30 cities, and will include special guests Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred. Sharing one eight-piece band on a custom stage that includes, of course, a fully-operational bar as the centerpiece, the [...]

I haven't heard the whole album yet, but California's MOONSHINE BANDITS seem to be staking their claim to a piece of that Hick-Hop or Hillbilly Rap pie. Somewhere between Cowboy Troy and Boondox, these guys have just issued a new track called Get Loose featuring Derrty D on their Facebook page. The song name-drops the likes of Johnny Cash, and will appear on their May 10th release entitled WHISKEY AND WOMEN. The album will be released via Suburban Noize Records, and will feature guest appearances by Danny Boone of Rehab, Big B, Dirtball & Daddy X from Kottonmouth Kings ...

Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson will hit the road for "Xtreme Muzik The Tour." The tour, which will include special guests Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred, will visit over 30 cities beginning June 18 in Springfield, Mo. Sharing one eight-piece band on a custom stage that includes a fully-operational bar as the centerpiece, the co-headliners will rarely leave the stage. The music will not stop, as Big & Rich and Wilson will perform and often join in on each other's songs....

Big & Rich are hitting the road together this summer with some of their Muzik Mafia compadres. The future of the duo - John Rich & Big Kenny Alphin - has been in doubt as both pursued solo projects. Their web site said the two were touring with Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy and Two Foot Fred. Dates are: June 25 - Moondance Jam Fairgrounds - Walker, Minn. July 2 - Wells Fargo Theatre - Denver July 16 - Craven Country Jamboree - Craven, Canada...

It is that time of year and the Independence Festival has announced it’s acts for this year’s fourth of July weekend.  The 3rd is your standard country day.  Anybody fans of Cowboy Troy?  The 4th, though, is going to be awesome. Arrested Development & Michael Franti and Spearhead are going to be playing at Waterfront [...] Continue reading Arrested Development & Michael Franti and Spearhead @ Waterfront Park – 7/4 at Backseat Sandbar .

On Saturday, April 24, 2010, the Country Music Marathon & 1/2 Marathon will celebrate its 11th annual running in Music City. John Rich will headline the post-race concert at the Bridgestone Arena that night at 7:00 p.m., joined by special guest Cowboy Troy, and opening acts Heidi Newfield and Jerrod Niemann. The concert is open to the [...]

What do the Dallas Cowboys and country duo Burns & Poe and Cowboy Troy have in common? Apparently a lot, because Keith Burns, formerly of Trick Pony, and Michelle Poe, filmed the music video for the Cowboy Stomp, the Dallas Cowboys' 2009 season theme song. Burns & Poe along with Cowboy Troy and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, taped the anthem on Monday inside the newly built Cowboys Stadium....

Here are Big & Rich, in 2004, on what still might wind up the best album any human beings make in the ‘00s: “People getting’ mad on CNN/Who's right, Democrats or Republicans?/I don't care who's right or wrong/I know a way we can all get along.” Well, the getting along didn’t last long, did it? John Rich actually spent the first half of 2008 on a promising mission, positing that Gone Country winner Julio Iglesias Jr. and Nashville Star almost-winner Gabe Garcia might suggest a way for Nashville reach the Hispanic audience—a mercenary ...