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cmt.com closely monitors postings about Cowboy Troy, and the few so far that have used racial epithets have been swiftly removed. Even so, antebellum echoes are not uncommon: "He is just polluting this awesome genre. This is such an abomination"; "A discrace [sic] to humanity [is] Troy on stage and the white girls down front dancing for him." Those who say the debate about segregation vs. integration is strictly musical usually point to Charley Pride, a genuine black superstar who had 29 No. 1 country hits from 1966 to 1989. But when Pride made his debut, his label didn...
...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...
...Cowboy Troy's first single, I Play Chicken with the Train, which features Big & Rich, was not designed to put traditionalists at ease. On first listen, it's almost comically dissonant; a grimy lead guitar fights for control with a banjo as Troy's deep, rat-a-tat-tat delivery flies by. But it does grow on you and soon finds a stomping middle ground between the Sugarhill Gang and Charlie Daniels. In the online-opinion maelstrom, about 50% of people seem to enjoy their first exposure to hick-hop; the rest can safely be described as horrified...