How Many Times Have You Played The Big & Rich CD That You Bought Because Of ILX?

How Many Times Have You Played The Electrik Red Album That You Downloaded Because Of ILX?

ILX has gotten me to buy all kinds of terrible stuff over the years. Truthfully, I don't trust this group's opinion on anything but rock music. I think I'm much, much more discriminating about what I listen to in the pop, country, and electronic realms, and my tastes simply don't seem to align well with those of people here. It's to be expected.

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that whole talk talk thread really got to you, huh?

I can't imagine buying music based solely on a recommendation in 2015 without listening first.

John Rich, multi-platinum singer/songwriter, TV host and one half of the super duo Big & Rich will debut “Earth To God” on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” on Friday, September 25th at 8:45 am and discuss his involvement with this Saturday’s "Washington Prayer March 2020 with Franklin Graham".

from a gross pr email I got sent

The obligatory “old ILX was wild” post.

You gotta read the original thread: Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

I love reoccurring motif of asking Ned if he'd bought it yet.

On revisiting, it's actually Ned himself saying he wants to buy it, but just hasn't been able to yet.

I went to grad school with someone who was closely related to either Big or Rich, I can never remember which one. He was very sensitive about it and would get mad if you brought it up. So of course "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" echoed through the halls of the English Department on a regular basis.

Haven't listened in a while, but debut seemed great, second not as good but wormed its way onto my Nashville Scene ballot, third no good, didn't listen to any solo albums except reissue of Big K's first, which I wrote about briefly in the Voice, excerpted here (from a longer piece, which also covered Jon Nicholson, talented B&G mentee, whose A Little Sumpin Sumpin, despite title, went a bit deeper and darker than their albums):

Live a Little , Big Kenny's pre-Big & Rich solo album, finally given a proper release on The Disney Music Group's Hollywood Records, brings the
noise candy, not the nose candy. It's a skyful of Purple Planetberries,
exploding on cue, presented 2 U by B.K., a psych-pop-goes-the-country impresario and aw-shucks-ma'am workaday wizard, bopping through amber waves with his drum machine. Kenny's as much wistful crooner as carny barker when singing through a megaphone-like vocoder
about "a place where dreams come true." He gets his comeuppance in "Cheater's
Lament." Even more so, in "Think Too Much," with virtual drumsticks bouncing off
the impervious cello-and-viola cloud of his (Traveling Wilburys-flavored) Orbisonic orbit.
Yet also with a ready tip of his feathered top hat to "Dor-oh-thee, and
Lit-tle To-To," flying by in "Rather Be."