Big & Rich with CBS at Liberty Memorial

Big & Rich CBS Early Show filming

Liberty Memorial

Photos & story by Chris Packham

If You Can Read This YOU’RE TOO CLOSE!

Big & Rich had a top 15 hit from their 2004 album Horse of a Different Color called “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy),” which is completely awesome because it sounds like a bumper sticker. Big & Rich, a Nashville country-pop duo comprising “Big” Kenny Alphin and John “Actual Last Name” Rich, should totally put out a song called “I’m 51% Pussycat, 49% Bitch (Don’t Push It),” or “Suck My Drunk (I’m Dick).”

Speaking as someone who hopes fervently to “unman” a car in event of holy rapture, I place a lot of stock in bumper-sticker polemics. And in fact, as I was walking up Main to get back to my car after this morning’s live broadcast from Liberty Memorial of the CBS Early Show, which featured a “concert” by Big & Rich, I counted four “Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)” bumper stickers, and also this awesome display: