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Big & Rich 'Comin' to Your City' this summer

Country duo Big & Rich will spend the coming months working the fair circuit behind its sophomore set, last year's "Comin' to Your City."

The pair has lined up stops in about 40 cities between now and late October, the bulk of which are set in June, July and August. Details are included in the itinerary below.

Big & Rich--a.k.a. Big Kenny and John Rich--co-produced "Comin' to Your City" with Paul Worley, chief creative officer for Warner's Nashville imprint. Worley also co-produced the pair's double-platinum, 2004 debut, "Horse of a Different Color."

As was the case with "Horse of a Different Color," "Comin' to Your City" features a variety of guest performers, including Kris Kristofferson, who guests on the ballad "8th of November," described in a press release as "a true story about Vietnam vet Niles Harris and the fateful day on November 8, 1965, when the 173rd Airborne Brigade was ambushed by over 1,200 Vietcong during Operation Hump."

Rich, a former member of country group Lonestar, said in a press release that he feels lucky to have gotten another shot at success in Big & Rich.

"When we were making the first album, Big Kenny was in debt $140,000 in credit cards, living in a little farm house out in a field, driving a broke-down truck," Rich said. "And I wasn't doing much better. We were two guys trying to make this outrageous album for country radio, and wondering, 'Are we just completely pissing in the wind?' I was what I'd call a two-time loser. I'd got fired from the band Lonestar. Then I made a solo album that didn't do anything. So Big & Rich was my third chance and if you get three chances in the business, you're pretty damn lucky."