Big Kenny and John Rich begin country's oddest breakthrough of the year with a track featuring bilingual rapper Cowboy Troy rhyming about "raving to trance," but their real crossover secret is drawing on arena rock: Hits such as "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" are good-natured lite metal in ten-gallon hats.

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