Big & Rich - Comin to Your City
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Artist: Big & RichBrand: Baker Drivetrain
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Model: 00093624947028
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Freak Parade
- Comin' to Your City
- Soul Shaker
- Never Mind Me
- Caught Up In the Moment
- Leap of Faith
- I Pray For You
- Filthy Rich
- Jalapeno
- 20 Margaritas
- Blow My Mind
- Slow Motion
- 8th of November
Music reviews of Comin to Your City
Music Review: It Shouldn't Be a Crime to Have A Good Time...
Rating: 5 Stars
Big & Rich singer John Rich has said in interviews that he's been liked to death, thank you very much, and has no problems with the love 'em or hate 'em response he and duo partner Big Kenny Alphin have received. If their debut album, "Horse of a Different Color" was the speedboat that overturned the staid country music canoe of 2004, the duo's second creation "Comin' To Your City" is the party barge of 2005 and 2006.
Opening with a zany, dare I say Crown-influenced, opening number called "The Freak Parade", both the name of the Big & Rich fan club AND a reference to a line in the kicking your dang door down breakout hit "Save a Horse (Ride A Cowboy)", the album quickly launches into maximum guitar overdrive with "Comin' To Your City" which Kenny has called their "fight song" for the next year. Since the release on November 15th, the duo has been on a tear through radio stations, television programs, awards shows, and public signing parties.
The throwdown continues with "Soul Shaker" where we hear that they aren't the "wishy washy (boys that we're) used to". Amen to that. If the soul isn't shaken on this hard driving ode to passion, at least the rafters are. Another tribute to passion, "Caught Up In The Moment" has its tongue firmly planted in cheek yet pulls off a funky dance groove that even Madonna might confess to admiring (groove, dance, BANJO? Yes, all three are present and accounted for in this song).
Lurking in between these two songs is a rare gem called "Never Mind Me". The best song on the album, its 70s Motown sound thankfully hasn't prevented Warner Brothers from releasing it as a single on country radio. For the first time, we see the singular voices of Alphin and Rich showcased. If there is a song to prove that these two belong together it is "Never Mind Me". While many critics have pointed their bitter-filled words at the duo's "novelty" image, songs such as this, "Leap of Faith", and "I Pray For You" indicate that while the party's still happening (hey hey hey), these guys have a depth of intellect and emotion for which they rarely receive credit.
That party jumps back to the front of the barge with "Filthy Rich" and its pointed humor directed at those who would make money off of someone else's hard work. It's an old-fashioned country western song with the surprise addition of a saxophone solo by Muzik Mafia brother Max (on Sax) Abrams. "Jalapeno" and "20 Margaritas" continue the hell-raising, neighbor-awakening, police-calling good time.
"Blow My Mind" slows the pace down somewhat, but this one gives us a tease of what's going on in Big Kenny's mind as he is the sole creator of this song(along with "20 Margaritas"). Having listened to Kenny's solo CD "Live A Little" I can vouch that his material makes you THINK a little. Maybe it also makes us scratch our heads and ask "What in the world?" but that's better than blind and deaf indifference, is it not?
Two of the last songs of the album, "Slow Motion" and "8th of November", end the collection on a somewhat reflective and sad note. Between the themes of broken hearts in "Slow Motion" and broken lives in "8th", the duo continues a tradition of closing their albums in a serious tone. I suspect that few critics out there have really paid attention to the story behind "8th" and one can only hope that Vietnam veterans will have the chance to listen to this tribute to their sacrifice. "8th" is not a slickly-packaged, glossy, ready for flashy marketing song. It's simple, it's real, and it's what country music promotes itself to be...storytelling.
Artists were once heralded for challenging traditions, scoffing at the norm, and breaking new ground. While Alphin and Rich continue the party, they are more than unafraid to lead the serious parade, too. Will they ever get the respect they have earned and deserved? Even if it's only one convert at a time, they'll get there. Everybody else? Well, we'll pray for them. Big & Rich's first album included a call for everyone to ride the "Love Train". This second CD is perhaps a call for us to board the "Love Rollercoaster." What a ride!
Description of Comin to Your City
The follow-up to 2004's Horse of a Different Color, Comin' To Your City once again has Big & Rich blowing the doors off Nashville with their sense of freedom. Comin' To Your City proves that the fun has just begun for Big & Rich.Anybody who needed a saddle to stay in the frantic groove of Big & Rich's 2004 debut, Horse of a Different Color, had better cinch it tighter for Comin' to Your City, the duo's much-anticipated follow-up: The album rocks far harder, and ventures into zones weirder than the Bermuda Triangle. Don't believe it? Check out "Soul Shaker," which employs screaming electric guitars and a vocal chorus reminiscent of '60s psychedelia, or "Caught Up in the Moment," about a spicy encounter of the mile-high-club kind. Then there's the self-congratulatory one-minute opener, "Freak Parade," which turns into an outsized kid's song à la Shel Silverstein, and the myth-making travelogue title track. And we won't even talk about the indescribably awful "Our America," a patriotic bonus track with fellow Muzik Mafia members Gretchen Wilson and Cowboy Troy that sounds like a Saturday Night Live parody. Yet while some will find the real-life "8th of November," featuring narration by Kris Kristofferson, worthy of tears and heartswelling emotion (it's about a Vietnam vet who survived an ambush on that day in 1965), there's really no great killer tune here. The surprise, hinted at on their first album, is how well John Rich and Big Kenny incorporate their pranks (risqué vocal asides, fevered carnival barking, instrumental in-jokes, gonzo and goofball humor) with their mainstream ballads and sweet/serious songs. "I Pray for You," with its angelic imagery, is as intense and spiritual a love song as has ever been written, while "Slow Motion" achingly details the shattering of a romantic affair. And even if these merry men can't resist a few off-putting and zany lyrics at the end of "Never Mind Me," it's a perfect piece of Eagles-eque soft-rock soul. There's some just plain bad music here, too ("Jalapeño"), but somehow that fittingly rounds out this wacko offering from the most creative and unpredictable team currently operating out of Nashville. --Alanna Nash
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