Who is that "save a horse, ride a cowboy" song by?

[ButterflyBlood]

and why do I keep hearing at places that NEVER play any other country music? It's starting to irritate me.

[achtung_circus]

1. Here

Artist : Big & Rich

Title : Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy

Album : Horse of a Different Color

Genre : Country

(intro)
DUM-DE-DE-DUM, DE-DE-DUM-DE-DE-DUM,
DE-DAA-DAAAAA
DUM-DE-DE-DUM, DE-DE-DUM-DE-DE-DUM,
DE-DAA-DAA-DAA-DAA-DAAAA!

Well, I walk into the room
Passing out hundred dollar bills
And it kills and it thrills like the horns on my Silverado grill
And I buy the bar a double round of crown
And everybody's getting down
An' this town ain't never gonna be the same.

(Chorus:)
Cause I saddle up my horse
and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise
Cause the girls
They are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway
on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
Everybody says
Save a horse, Ride a cowboy

Well I don't give a dang about nothing
I'm singing and Bling- Blanging
While the girls are drinking
Long necks down!
And I wouldn't trade ol' Leroy
or my Chevrolet for your Escalade
Or your freak parade
I'm the only John Wayne left in this town

And I saddle up my horse
and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise
Cause the girls
They are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway
on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
Everybody says
Save a horse, Ride a cowboy



(Spoken:)
I'm a thourough-bred
that's what she said
in the back of my truck bed
As I was gettin' buzzed on suds
Out on some back country road.
We where flying high
Fining, whine, having ourselves a big and rich time
And I was going, just about as far as she'd let me go.
But her evaluation
of my cowboy reputation
Had me begging for slavation
all night long
So I took her out giggin frogs
Introduced her to my old bird dog
And sang her every Wilie Nelson song I could think of

And we made love
And I saddled up my horse
and I ride into the city
I make a lot of noise
Cause the girls
They are so pretty
Riding up and down Broadway
on my old stud Leroy
And the girls say
Save a horse, ride a cowboy.
Everybody says
Save a horse, Ride a cowboy

What? What?
Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy
Everybody says
Save a Horse Ride a cowboy.

[jobycom]

2. Big and Rich, and because it's funny. Sorry it irritates you.

[BattyDem]

3. It's funny and you don't have to like country music to like it ....

iTunes even has a dance mix version of it, LOL!

[Mistress Quickly]

4. Actually its a cool group

Big and Rich
http://www.bigandrich.com/index.php

Sort of renegade country, they started up their group with musicians who couldn't get signed and they call themselves the Muzik Mafia. The travel with various members joining them or leaving them through out the tour. One of them has "Love Everybody" in big white letters on the back of his guitar, which he flips over.

http://www.angrycountry.com/stories/0163.html

Surrounding them is a batch of remarkable sidekicks: the Wild Bunch meets the Rat Pack, you might say. There is Cowboy Troy, the world's only six-foot, five-inch, 250 pound black cowboy rapper, who throws down in three languages and has a degree in economics to boot. There is Limo Larry, once a homeless drug addict and now a local legend who uses his limousine to ferry off-duty strippers and inebriated musicians around Nashville every night. There is Tim the Electrician, a tough little guy with a big mustache and a beer-swigging red macaw named Santana who clings to his owner's shoulder, while Tim practices the sport he has invented... championship chair riding. (Apparently, it is harder than it sounds.) There are songwriters and drifters, millionaires and ne'er-do-wells, punk rockers and bluegrass pickers and young ladies in Catholic schoolgirl outfits. There is the reigning queen of country music, Martina McBride, a fan and a friend, and there is a truckload of unknowns who might well make it big themselves someday.