Comin' to Your City explained

Comin' to Your City
Type:	studio
Artist:	Big & Rich
Cover:	Big_and_rich_comin_to_your_city_cd.JPG
Released:	November 15, 2005
Recorded:	2005
Genre:	Country
Length:	48:42
Label:	Warner Bros. Nashville, Warner Music Group
Producer:	Big Kenny, John Rich, Paul Worley
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Comin' to Your City is the second studio album by American country music duo Big & Rich, released in 2005. It features the hit singles "Comin' to Your City", "Never Mind Me", and "8th of November", which peaked at number 21, number 34, and number 18 on the Hot Country Songs charts, respectively. Target offered an exclusive deluxe edition of the album which featured a bonus DVD of Big & Rich's performance at the 2005 CMA Music Festival.^[1]

The title track has become the official theme song of College Gameday, albeit with different lyrics that talk about specific college football teams. Cowboy Troy appears in the revamped version and the corresponding video. The track "I Pray for You" was one of the first songs which Big Kenny and John Rich wrote together. Prior to the duo's inception, both singers included it on their respective solo albums (Big Kenny's Live a Little and Rich's Underneath the Same Moon), which were both recorded in 1999, with the former released in 2005 and the latter in 2006. Rich's solo rendition was also released as a single in 2000, peaking at No. 58 on the country charts.

Track listing

In later presses of the album, "8th of November" was split into two tracks: one for Kris Kristofferson's opening and another for the song itself.

Personnel

Big & Rich

• Big Kenny – vocals
• John Rich – vocals, acoustic guitar

Additional musicians

• Max Abrams – saxophone
• Sam Bacco – percussion (track 14)
• Brian Barnett – drums (all tracks except 4, 9, 10), percussion (track 3)
• Dennis Burnside – keyboards (track 2), synthesizer (track 5)
• Eric Darken – percussion (track 14)
• Mike Johnson – steel guitar
• Wayne Killius – drums (track 4, 9, 10)
• Howard Laravea – Hammond B-3 organ (track 4), synthesizer (track 4), piano (track 10)
• Carig Nelson – bass guitar (track 14)
• Matt Pierson – bass guitar (track 10)
• Mike Rojas – keyboards (track 1), piano (tracks 6, 8, 13), synthesizer (tracks 6, 11, 13), Hammond B-3 organ (track 11, 12), Wurlitzer (track 12)
• Ethan Pilzer – bass guitar (track 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13)
• Ron Sobro – percussion (track 14)
• Adam Shoenfeld – electric guitar (all tracks)
• Justin Tockett – bass guitar (track 2, 4, 5, 9)
• Paul Worley – electric guitar (tracks 1, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13)
• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle, banjo, mandolin, Dobro, cello, harp, octophone

Strings on Track 14 performed by the Nashville String Machine, conducted by Carl Gorodetzky, arranged by Dennis Burnside:

• Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Conni Ellisor, Alan Umstead, David Davidson, David Angell, Catherine Umstead, Cate Myer, Zeneba Bowers, Erin Hall, Denise Baker, Carolyn Bailey, Gerald Greer, chris teal, Janet Askey, Karen Winkleman – violins
• Gary Vanosdale, Kathryn Plummer, Monisa Angell, Kris Wilkinson – violas
• John Catchings, Felix Wang, Sarighani Reist Acro – cellos

Chart performance

Year-end charts

Chart (2006)	Position
US Billboard 200^[2]	58
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[3]	16

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country ^[4]	US ^[5]	US Pop ^[6]
2005	"Comin' to Your City"	21	72	62
2006	"Never Mind Me"	34	—	—
	"8th of November"	18	94	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Notes and References

1. Web site: Comin to Your City (Limited Edition Version w/ Unreleased Track and Bonus Dvd) &. September 7, 2021. Amazon.
2. Web site: Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2006. Billboard. November 22, 2020.
3. Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2006. Billboard. November 22, 2020.
4. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=big & rich|chart=Country Songs}} Big & Rich Album & Song Chart History (Country Songs)]. Billboard. August 14, 2010.
5. Web site: [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=big & rich|chart=Hot 100}} Big & Rich Album & Song Chart History (Hot 100)]. Billboard. August 14, 2010.
6. Web site: [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p637739/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}} allmusic (((Big & Rich > Charts & Awards > Billboard Singles)))]. Allmusic. August 14, 2010.