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BLP sources|date=July 2009Infobox musical artist | name = Big Kenny| image = Freeuse.jpg| caption = Big Kenny| background = solo_singer| birth_name = William Kenneth Alphin| alias = Kenny Alphin| birth_date = birth date and age|1963|11|01| origin = Culpeper, Virginia|Culpeper , Virginia, U.S.| instrument = Vocals, guitar | genre = Country music|Country | occupation = Singer-songwriter | years_active = 1999present| label = Hollywood Records|Hollywood , Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros. Nashville , Glotown/Love Everybody/Bigger Picture| associated_acts = Big & Rich Tim McGraw luvjOi|website = http://www.bigkenny.tv/ http://www.bigkenny.tv/ William Kenneth Alphin (born in Culpeper, Virginia|Culpeper , Virginia on November 1, 1963) is an American country music singer, known by his stage name Big Kenny . He and John Rich (musician)|John Rich comprise the duo Big & Rich , which has recorded three studio albums for Warner Bros. Records and has charted ten singles on the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Before Big & Rich, Big Kenny recorded a solo album, Live a Little (Big Kenny album)|Live a Little , for Hollywood Records in 1999 (although it was not released until 2005) and fronted a band called luvjOi. Kenny has also written or co-written several of Big & Rich's songs with Rich, as well as singles for Gretchen Wilson , Jason Aldean , McBride & the Ride and Tim McGraw . His first solo single, " Long After I'm Gone ," was released to country radio on August 3, 2009 and is included on the album The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy .
Biography
Alphin was raised on a farm. In Nashville, he found work at Famous Music .cite news|url= http://www.nashvillescene.com/2000-11-16/stories/feeling-the-luv/2|title=Feeling the Luv After departing Hollywood Records, Alphin moves on|last=Murray|first=Noel|date=2000-10-16|work=Nashville Scene|page=2|accessdate=2009-07-11
Before Big & Rich
Before Big & Rich, Big Kenny was signed to Hollywood Records in 1999 and recorded the album Live a Little (Big Kenny album)|Live a Little for the label. The album's release was delayed repeatedly, and was ultimately canceled, with Hollywood Records retaining control of the songs for five yearscite news|url= http://www.nashvillescene.com/2000-11-16/stories/feeling-the-luv/|title=Feeling the Luv After departing Hollywood Records, "Big Kenny" Alphin moves on|last=Murray|first=Noel|date=2000-10-16|work=Nashville Scene|page=1|accessdate=2009-07-11 and ultimately releasing it in 2005. One of its songs, "Under the Sun", was featured in the soundtrack to the 2001 film Gun Shy (film)|Gun Shy .cite web|url=Allmusic|class=album|id=r461655|pure_url=yes|title= Gun Shy Soundtrack review|last=Phares|first=Heather|work= Allmusic |accessdate=2009-07-11
After departing the label, he founded the band luvjOi, which included Adam Shoenfeld ( guitar ), Larry Babb ( drums ) and Justin Tocket ( bass guitar ). Although luvjOi had a degree of local success, including the single "Discoball" and two albums, the band eventually broke up.
Big & Rich
Main|Big & RichBy this point in his career, Big Kenny had befriended John Rich (musician)|John Rich , formerly the bass guitarist and co-lead vocalist of Lonestar . The two founded Big & Rich in the early 2000s after years of collaboration, including co-writing McBride & the Ride 's 2002 single " Amarillo Sky (song)|Amarillo Sky " as well as "She's a Butterfly", an album cut for Martina McBride .cite web|url=Allmusic|class=artist|id=p637739/biography|pure_url=yes|title=Big & Rich biography|last=Loftus|first=Johnny|work=Allmusic|accessdate=2009-07-11
Big & Rich signed to Warner Bros. Records in 2004. The duo recorded three studio albums for the label: Horse of a Different Color (Big & Rich album)|Horse of a Different Color (2004), '' Comin' to Your City (2005) and Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace (2007), as well as two extended play|EP s and ten single (music)|single s, including the Number One hit " Lost in This Moment ". In 2011, Kenny rejoined John Rich to release the single Fake I.D.
Muzik Mafia
Big & Rich also founded the MuzikMafia , an association of singer-songwriters which also included Shannon Lawson (singer)|Shannon Lawson , Gretchen Wilson and Cowboy Troy .
Recent solo career
Big Kenny went on hiatus in 2008, as Kenny had to rehabilitate a neck injury that occurred when he was hit by a drunk driver in 2001. He launched his official online community at www.bigkenny.tv in mid-2009. There, he made his first solo single, "Long After I'm Gone", available as a free download. It was released to radio in August 2009 as the first single from his second solo album, The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy , which was rated number 13 on the 30 Best Country Albums of 2009 by Roughstock.cite web|url= http://www.roughstock.com/blog/the-30-best-country-albums-of-2009-20-11|title=The 30 Best Country Albums of 2009|last=Bjorke|first=Matt|date=2009-12-30|work=Roughstock|accessdate=2009-12-30 Kenny also became a judge on the television talent show Can You Duet . Kenny released several non-album singles during this period.
On April 16, 2010 Big Kenny launched his first solo nation-wide tour, the Love Everybody Traveling Musical Medicine Show. The tour launched in Agora Hills, CA at the Canyon Club and introduced the world to Big Kenny's new band: ex-Counting Crows and Third Eye Blind drummer Steve Bowman, guitar virtuoso Jesse Howard, former Will Hogue multi-instrumentalist Devin Malone and Nashville veteran Jerry Navarro.cite web|url= http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/something-big-in-store-for-big-kenny-90604034.html |title=Something BIG in Store for BIG KENNY - NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 12 /PRNewswire/ |location=Tennessee |publisher=Prnewswire.com |date= |accessdate=2012-03-28
Songwriter
Kenny has also written or co-written several of Big & Rich's songs with Rich, as well as singles for Gretchen Wilson , Jason Aldean , McBride & the Ride , Martina McBride and Tim McGraw .
Big Kenny's co-writing credits also include " Here for the Party (song)|Here for the Party " for Gretchen Wilson and " Hicktown " for Jason Aldean (who also released a cover version|cover of "Amarillo Sky"). He is also the sole writer of Tim McGraw 's Number One hit " Last Dollar (Fly Away) ".
Personal life
On January 23, 2005, he married Christiev Carothers. She has two sons from a previous marriage: Christopher Carothers, Cameron Carothers, and together they have one son, Lincoln William Holiday Alphin, born on November 2, 2005. On September 17, 2010, Big Kenny and Christiev announced they had adopted a second son, Dakota Jefferson Holiday Alphin, in July 2010.cite web|author=12:30 PM ET |url= http://celebritybabies.people.com/2010/09/17/big-kenny-adopts-son-dakota-jefferson/ |title=Big Kenny Adopts Son Dakota Jefferson Moms & Babies Moms & Babies - People.com |publisher=Celebritybabies.people.com |date=2011-06-29 |accessdate=2012-03-28
In October 2007, Big Kenny traveled to Darfur , Sudan to deliver medical and educational supplies. He also traveled back to Akon, a remote village in Northern Bahl Ghazel in Sudan for a similar Mission together with My Sisters Keeper Group cite web|url= http://www.cmt.com/news/articles/1572388/20071019/big_rich.jhtml|title=Big Kenny delivering school supplies to Sudan|work= Country Music Television |date=2007-10-19|accessdate=2009-07-21
In January 2010, Big Kenny traveled to Haiti to assist in the rescue efforts in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake .
Discography
See also|Big & Rich discography
Studio albums
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Live a Little
Release date: March 1, 2005
Label: Hollywood Records
Formats: Compact disc|CD , music download
The Quiet Times of a Rock and Roll Farm Boy
Release date: November 10, 2009
Label: Love Everybody/ Bigger Picture Music Group|Bigger Picture
(with Jaron and the Long Road to Love )cite web>url=http:/ / www.cmt.com/ videos/ jaron-and-the-long-road-to-love/ 660190/ beautiful-lies-featuring-big-kenny.jhtml
Jaron Lowenstein
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cite book |title=MuzikMafia: From the Nashville Scene to the National Mainstream |url= http://www.amazon.com/MuzikMafia-Nashville-National-Mainstream-American/dp/1604734388/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8& s=books& qid=1265825153& sr=8-1 |author=Pruett, David B.|year=2010 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi.|location=Jackson, MS
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