Big & Rich in Albuquerque

Big & Rich are an American country duo formed in Nashville in 1998 by Big Kenny and John Rich. Their country-rock sound reached a broad audience through the album Horse of a Different Color and songs including “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy),” “Comin’ to Your City” and “Lost in This Moment.” “Comin’ to Your City” also became closely associated with ESPN’s College GameDay. Big & Rich developed their early live act at the Pub of Love through MuzikMafia, the Nashville collective that included Gretchen Wilson and Cowboy Troy. After supporting Tim McGraw on the Out Loud Tour in 2004, they mounted the Coming to Your City Tour and later reunited with Wilson and Cowboy Troy for Xtreme Muzik The Tour in 2011.

Gretchen Wilson is an American country singer-songwriter, born in Pocahontas, Illinois, in 1973. She became known through “Redneck Woman” and her 2004 debut album, Here for the Party; later releases included All Jacked Up and One of the Boys. In 2004, Gretchen Wilson took her debut songs on the road as an opening act for Brooks & Dunn and Montgomery Gentry. The following year she joined Kenny Chesney’s Somewhere in the Sun Tour and performed at Live 8 in Philadelphia. In 2012, she toured American amphitheatres with ZZ Top and 3 Doors Down on the Gang of Outlaws Tour.