Word: troy
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...Wilson's underclass anthem Redneck Woman and the winningly lewd Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) for his own duo, Big & Rich. Now Rich is putting his skills behind an act that tweaks Nashville's two greatest taboos--race and musical tradition--and he can barely contain himself. "Cowboy Troy is the only 6-ft. 5-in. black rapping cowboy I've ever met!" says Rich. "We think he's going to be a groundbreaking, multiplatinum artist...
...Cowboy Troy is indeed black (he prefers the term to African American), and, particularly with his ten-gallon hat on, he is enormous. He is also a phlegmatic and thoughtful antidote to Rich's hype. "I get looks from just about everybody," says Troy Coleman, 34, as he squeezes into a booth at a Nashville steak house. "I'm pretty used to the fact that there aren't a lot of people who look and dress like me." There aren't a lot of people like him, period. Coleman grew up in Dallas and Forth Worth, Texas, loving Guns...
...Cowboy Troy's debut album, Loco Motive, was just released on the Muzik Mafia's Warner Bros. imprint, Raybaw (red and yellow, black and white) Records. Says Troy: "I'm rapping over pedal-steel guitar, lap steel, Dobro, fiddle and other country instruments. In the Muzik Mafia we call it hick-hop, and we think its time has come. Country is ready to expand its boundaries." There are signs he may be right. Nelly and Tim McGraw recently had a hit with the style-mixing duet Over and Over, Jack White of the White Stripes produced a Grammy-winning album...
...much navel--with a prim cruelty that would not be out of place in an Edith Wharton novel. "One of the subjects of debate on our message boards is always, 'Is it country?'" says Calvin Gilbert, managing editor of cmt.com the online extension of Country Music Television (CMT). "With Troy, it seems like it's the only subject of debate...
...past five years alone, the number of home buyers 50 and over making purchases of $500,000 or more has doubled, estimates Jim Gillespie, president and chief executive officer of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corp., which is based in Parsippany, N.J., and has 3,200 offices domestically. Says Troy Campa, principal of Newberry Campa Architects LLC in Houston: "Just a few years ago, we didn't really see anyone in this age group buying large custom homes. Now that number is about 30% of our business, and it's going up at least 10% every year...