THE FREAK PARADE
JR: Am I proud to be a freak? Hell yeah. Everybody in the world has something freaky about 'em if you really got to know them. We all have our oddities -- we just embrace ours instead of hiding them.
BK: When we say "country music without prejudice we mean it. Race, color, and creed -- we want to invite everyone to our show. We're still our there leading the freak parade, only now there are more people coming behind us.
COMIN' TO YOUR CITY
BK: I'd say that's the fight song for the next year and a half - and fair warning to everyone.
JR: We were only dreaming about coming to everyone's city when we wrote that one a couple years ago while we were working with the Priceless Edge people mentoring these kids and letting them watch us write songs. We were dreaming then about what we're doing now -- playing our music for the people.
SOUL SHAKER
JR: The most rocking country song ever recorded -- like the Black Crowes on speed. "Soul Shaker" rocks harder than rock & roll, but with fiddles and banjos, country lyrics and a whole lot of testosterone.
BK: Those are pretty rockin' banjos, huh? That song is so descriptive of what John and I try to do -- shake your soul up a little. It's about having that kind of love for a woman and telling her you're going to love her like you mean it.
NEVER MIND ME
BK: "Never Mind Me" has that R&B soul vibe that I love. It reminds me of the great Bill Withers who made classic after classic. I love that awesome groove.
JR: I'd say that's the easy listening side of Big & Rich. It's the light the candles, get-your-girl in the mood kind of song, and who doesn't need one of those?
CAUGHT UP IN THE MOMENT
JR: This song sort of reminds me of "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow -- one of my all-time favorite songs. It's a crazy, freaky story about this lady picking up a guy in an airport, banging him on the plane and then marrying him in Vegas. It's a mini-movie -- that song.
BK: This one was written before we were out there on the road tearing it up. That song is about living in the moment - like "Live This Life," but a little more on that fun side, but with the same philosophy.
LEAP OF FAITH
BK: John and I both were raised with incredible faith that we could do anything and we still have that faith today. Good things can happen from that kind of encouragement.
JR: Kenny and I wrote that one when we were stepping way out on that limb musically wondering if anyone would ever get it. It says, "to a rocket I've been tied/I'm ready for the screaming ride/It's full of fuel and I just lit the fuse." We didn't know if the rocket was going to take off or blow up, but by God, we were going to get on it and ride it wherever it was going.
I PRAY FOR YOU
JR: That's the second song Kenny and I ever wrote together. It was written in October of 1998. We wrote "I Pray For You" in about thirty minutes, and then we looked at each other. That's the first time the real Big & Rich chemistry happened and we knew something was going down big time. That song also became my solo single - it went to like 52 on the charts and the label dropped me. But we always knew there was something special about that song.
BK: We were trying to write the ultimate song to let someone know you really love them. It was the first time we knew we were onto something together. Finally we're going to have it on a record that will see the light of day in a big way.