Insider with Cowboy Troy

Cowboy Troy

Fri. Apr 29, 2022 // 8:00 p.m. // T1: $55 // T2: $50 // T3: $45

Troy Coleman is a Texas born Country singer who burst into the Country music scene teaming up with chart-toppers Big & Rich. His “Hick-Hop” sound would be featured on his solo album “Loco Motive,” which would reach number-two on the Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. Backup vocalist for Big & Rich; Troy also toured with Tim McGraw and provided a Rap track to McGraw’s ballad “She’s My Kind of Rain.” Similar Artists: Thompson Square, Jake Hoot

Troy Coleman was attending the University of Texas at Austin when he got his moniker Cowboy Troy from a friend to help distinguish him from other Troys at the school. This 6’ 5” cowboy hat wearing Country Rapper has never had trouble standing out. He found his tribe when he met up with the Musik Mafia.

Troy explains, “I met John Rich back in the summer of ‘93, when he was playing bass with the band Texassee,whose name would later be changed to Lonestar. They were playing in a bar that I was hanging out in. On my first trip to Nashville in ’99, he introduced me to Big Kenny. We’ve been friends all these years. Right about that time everybody wanted to do these Musik Mafia nights on Tuesday nights. I was still living in Dallas at this time so I would drive up. Musik Mafia nights featured any kind of music… Rock music, Rap music, Spoken Word. We had artists doing live painting…interpretive dance – whatever you could think of. We did 70 some odd Tuesday nights in a row. People started getting record deals.”

“I had a plan to work my way up the corporate ladder at Foot Locker, but one day I checked my phone on my break, and it was a message from John. Big & Rich had gotten picked up to go on tour with Tim McGraw! I was so stoked for them and totally surprised when John said, ‘We want you go with us.’ The rest is history.”

While on tour, Troy remembers co-writing “I Play Chicken with the Train.” “We were in Baton Rouge sitting on the bus… Angie Aparo and John noticed the train tracks that went by the arena…It became a proclamation about the Hick Hop music I was making. Is that light at the end of the tunnel me making it, or is it the 5:15 coming to hit me?”

Troy continues, “I make Rap music for the Country music fans. I grew up listening to guys like Charlie Daniels, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Roger Miller - all these classic artists came out with these songs with spoken word style of delivery.”

“Then when I was old enough to go to Country bars I would see all these pick-up trucks in the parking lot blasting Rap music. You go into the clubs and the last 15 minutes of the hour they would switch to Rap. Every time a Rap song came on you would see a bunch of cowboys on the dance floor. I knew

I wasn’t the only one who had an appreciation for it.”

In 2020, Cowboy Troy released “Galaxy” - 4 EPs with 4 songs - each with their own vibe. His love of Sci-Fi meshed with his love of all types of music from party band music to “retro zone out” to traditional Texas Swing. There are no boxes for Cowboy Troy.

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