There’s cruises for outlaw country, classic country, and Americana country. Now, 2000s country finally gets its due. In 2025, the Boots on the Water cruise will assemble some of the biggest names from the Aughts for a five-day voyage to the Bahamas.
Big & Rich — the duo of Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich — will headline with special guest Gretchen Wilson in a mini-reunion of the Muzik Mafia that ran roughshod over the mid-2000s. Other Aught-shots aboard include Craig Morgan (“That’s What I Love About Sunday,” 2004), Lonestar (“I’m Already There,...
Big & Rich — the duo of Big Kenny Alphin and John Rich — will headline with special guest Gretchen Wilson in a mini-reunion of the Muzik Mafia that ran roughshod over the mid-2000s. Other Aught-shots aboard include Craig Morgan (“That’s What I Love About Sunday,” 2004), Lonestar (“I’m Already There,...
- 3/19/2024
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Country duo Big & Rich are sharing their horror at witnessing hysteria and panic erupt in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday, after a gunman fired fatal shots at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival. Big Kenny and John Rich were on stage at the festival around 90 minutes prior to Jason Aldean’s set — during which a […]...
- 10/3/2017
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Big & Rich are completely “heartbroken” over the deadly Las Vegas shooting that claimed the lives of 59 people and injured 527.
Big Kenny and John Rich, who opened for headliner Jason Aldean, performed at Sunday’s Route 91 Harvest festival less than two hours before gunshots were heard.
Tragically, the pair revealed a fan they met prior to their performance was killed when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the festival crowd of more than 22,000 from his 32nd-floor hotel room at the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“One guy...
Big Kenny and John Rich, who opened for headliner Jason Aldean, performed at Sunday’s Route 91 Harvest festival less than two hours before gunshots were heard.
Tragically, the pair revealed a fan they met prior to their performance was killed when gunman Stephen Paddock opened fire on the festival crowd of more than 22,000 from his 32nd-floor hotel room at the nearby Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
“One guy...
- 10/3/2017
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Country duo Big & Rich are sharing their horror at witnessing hysteria and panic erupt in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday, after a gunman fired fatal shots at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival.
Big Kenny and John Rich were on stage at the festival around 90 minutes prior to Jason Aldean’s set -- during which a gunman opened fire, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 -- but had left on their tour bus for a nearby after-show.
“We were down the street,” Kenny told Et on Tuesday. “I was on a bus ready to step back off of it, when I looked down and saw three Swat guys with guns pointed in my direction. I throw my hands up and said, ‘Guys, it’s me! We just played.’”
“It was hysteria blocks away,” Kenny continued. “They thought there were multiple shooters throughout the city. When fear and hysteria starts spreading like that, you don’t know...
Big Kenny and John Rich were on stage at the festival around 90 minutes prior to Jason Aldean’s set -- during which a gunman opened fire, killing 58 people and injuring more than 500 -- but had left on their tour bus for a nearby after-show.
“We were down the street,” Kenny told Et on Tuesday. “I was on a bus ready to step back off of it, when I looked down and saw three Swat guys with guns pointed in my direction. I throw my hands up and said, ‘Guys, it’s me! We just played.’”
“It was hysteria blocks away,” Kenny continued. “They thought there were multiple shooters throughout the city. When fear and hysteria starts spreading like that, you don’t know...
- 10/3/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Big & Rich met a 25-year-old fan just hours before his death in Las Vegas. The country music duo of Big Kenny and John Rich spoke to E! News in an exclusive interview on Monday following the mass shooting in Las Vegas. On Sunday evening, during Jason Aldean's performance at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, a gunman identified as Stephen Paddock shot and killed over 50 people and injured over 500 people. Paddock opened fire on the crowd of about 22,000 people attending the country music festival at Las Vegas Village from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino across the street. Big & Rich performed at the country music festival on Sunday...
- 10/2/2017
- E! Online
When it comes to country duo Big & Rich’s soft side, Big Kenny and John Rich admit that their music is actually inspired by that special someone.
“A few songs in there specifically for me, I wrote ‘em for my woman,” Kenny tells People Now. “Having someone in my life like my wife, like John’s, well you want those kind of songs that will make ‘em feel good about everything.”
As for which bandmate is more romantic? “He’s the universal minister of love,” shares Rich. “You really can’t compete with that.”
Explains Kenny: “Well you know there...
“A few songs in there specifically for me, I wrote ‘em for my woman,” Kenny tells People Now. “Having someone in my life like my wife, like John’s, well you want those kind of songs that will make ‘em feel good about everything.”
As for which bandmate is more romantic? “He’s the universal minister of love,” shares Rich. “You really can’t compete with that.”
Explains Kenny: “Well you know there...
- 9/27/2017
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
Though President Donald Trump announced he wanted to run for the nation’s highest office in June 2015, Big & Rich’s John Rich first heard about Trump’s bid four years earlier when the country star won the Celebrity Apprentice.
“So I win Celebrity Apprentice, all of the confetti falls out of the ceiling, I’m standing there next to Mr. Trump,” Rich — who won season 11 of the reality show, raising a record $1.4 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — tells People Now.
Continues Rich: “And he’s got his arm around. We were taking pictures and he leans over to me and he goes,...
“So I win Celebrity Apprentice, all of the confetti falls out of the ceiling, I’m standing there next to Mr. Trump,” Rich — who won season 11 of the reality show, raising a record $1.4 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital — tells People Now.
Continues Rich: “And he’s got his arm around. We were taking pictures and he leans over to me and he goes,...
- 9/20/2017
- by Mariah Haas
- PEOPLE.com
Donald Trump‘s pre-inaugural gala is goin’ country.
The president-elect, who appears to have had difficulty attracting top talent for his upcoming inauguration, has secured Big & Rich and country rapper Cowboy Troy to perform at a pre-inaugural gala on Jan. 19 — one day before the businessman and political novice is sworn in as the nation’s 45th president.
The pre-inaugural bash is a joint effort between the Republican Party of New York and the Great America Alliance, an advocacy group supporting Trump. The gala is also expected to be attended by notables including Jon Voight and Trump campaign surrogate Rudy Giuliani,...
The president-elect, who appears to have had difficulty attracting top talent for his upcoming inauguration, has secured Big & Rich and country rapper Cowboy Troy to perform at a pre-inaugural gala on Jan. 19 — one day before the businessman and political novice is sworn in as the nation’s 45th president.
The pre-inaugural bash is a joint effort between the Republican Party of New York and the Great America Alliance, an advocacy group supporting Trump. The gala is also expected to be attended by notables including Jon Voight and Trump campaign surrogate Rudy Giuliani,...
- 1/6/2017
- by kathyehrichdowd
- PEOPLE.com
Kenny Alphin, one half of country music duo “Big & Rich,” is set to star in a new one-hour TLC reality special. The show will document Alphin, better known by his stage name “Big Kenny,” as he spends time with his wife Christiev, and their sons, Dakota, Lincoln, Christopher and Cameron during a break from touring. “Viewers will get the chance to take a peek inside Kenny’s celebrity lifestyle and may be surprised to find that when he’s not filling stadiums and concert venues, he lives a typical life -albeit influenced by his over-the-top personality – filled with family dinners,...
- 8/10/2015
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
John Rich and Big Kenny Alphin are getting used to the comments. "A fellow came up to me in the airport recently and said, 'You used to be Big & Rich, right? I'm so glad you guys are back together!' " Alphin says with a laugh. "I hear that all the time," adds Rich. "We never felt we were broken up, but if that was the perception, we're glad we were missed and that people are glad we're back together." The duo, who galloped to fame in the 2000s with such hits as "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" and "Lost in This Moment,...
- 8/5/2014
- by Kay West
- PEOPLE.com
"Bat Out of Hell" rocker and "Celebrity Apprentice" alum Meat Loaf showed his support for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday (Oct. 25) the best way he knows how -- with his voice. However, some folks -- namely those who could hear him -- weren't too impressed with his performance.
Meat Loaf joined forces with country music stars Randy Owens, Big Kenny and John Rich, another "Celebrity Apprentice" vet, at a Romney rally in Defiance, Ohio, to serenade the presidential hopeful with their rendition of "America the Beautiful."
As seen in the video below from NBC, Owens and Rich kept things traditional at first with the number. But there's nothing traditional about Meat Loaf -- unless it's on your dinner table -- who can't be held back by the likes of the song's pesky notes, lyrics and more than a hundred years of history.
"Aaah! Go ahead now brother!" Meat Loaf...
Meat Loaf joined forces with country music stars Randy Owens, Big Kenny and John Rich, another "Celebrity Apprentice" vet, at a Romney rally in Defiance, Ohio, to serenade the presidential hopeful with their rendition of "America the Beautiful."
As seen in the video below from NBC, Owens and Rich kept things traditional at first with the number. But there's nothing traditional about Meat Loaf -- unless it's on your dinner table -- who can't be held back by the likes of the song's pesky notes, lyrics and more than a hundred years of history.
"Aaah! Go ahead now brother!" Meat Loaf...
- 10/26/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Tim McGraw has done it, Toby Keith has done, and by God, Big Kenny Alphin is going to do it too. The larger member of the country music group Big & Rich will follow his Nashville brethren into an acting career, getting ready to star in Free Like Me, a drama directed by relatively inexperienced helmer Ezna Sands. Production Weekly includes the production in this week's issue, along with a plot description that sounds like it wouldn't make a half-bad country song. "After being devastated by a traumatic loss, Cole flees to a remote Caribbean island to lick his wounds and drink himself into oblivion. There he befriends local with her own traumatic past and realizes in spite of his loss, that he's still a lucky man with much to be thankful for." Sounds like the kind of movie you'd want to spend with a country music star, in a ...
- 3/2/2009
- cinemablend.com
NBC has filled the casting cupboard for its upcoming unscripted series Celebrity Cooking Showdown. Supermodel Naomi Campbell, Days of Our Lives star Alison Sweeney and country music performer Big Kenny are among the celebrities who have been lined up for the cooking competition series. They will be joined by celebrity chefs Wolfgang Puck, Cat Cora (Iron Chef America) and Govind Armstrong, executive chef and owner of Los Angeles restaurant Table 8. The hosts of Showdown will be Alan Thicke (Growing Pains) and Sandra Lee (Semi-Homemade Cooking With Sandra Lee).
- 3/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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