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Big & Rich

Ex-Lonestar vocalist John Rich met songwriter Kenny "Big Kenny" Alphin at a Nashville club. Disenchanted with the country music industry, the two began penning songs together and established the Muzik Mafia, a weekly songwriting session at a local bar. The sessions gained notoriety and attracted diverse range of participants, from Ricky Skaggs to Saliva. They gained the attention of Warner Bros. Nashville with the single "She's a Butterfly," which the duo penned for Martina McBride, and the label released Big & Rich's debut album, Horse of a Different Color, in 2004. That year the duo also cowrote and coproduced Gretchen Wilson's best-selling debut album, Redneck Woman.

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