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n. (context idiomatic English) An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.
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Horse of a Different Color is the debut album by the American country music duo Big & Rich. It was released in 2004 on Warner Bros. Records and it contains the hit singles " Wild West Show", " Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)", " Holy Water", and " Big Time". Respectively, these reached No. 21, No. 11, No. 15, and No. 20 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. The album was certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of three million copies.
Horse of a Different Color is a 1999 album by Willy DeVille. The album consists of original compositions and remakes of traditional Black music titles such as Fred McDowell's “Going over the Hill,” and Andre Williams' "Bacon Fat."
The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis. It was produced by Jim Dickinson, who brought along his son Luther to play guitar and his son Cody to play drums.
Allmusic called the album "the most consistent and brilliant recording of Willy DeVille's long career":
Before it's over, DeVille has reprised his soulman balladeer role — and no one sings them better — as well as cruising through a topical folk song, a chain-gang chant with a devastating rhythm track, and an R&B growler by Andre Williams before closing with his own "Time to Time," a broken-survivor song about love's ceaseless wars. Simply put, no one has this range or depth in interpreting not only styles, but also the poetics of virtually any set of lyrics. DeVille makes everything he sings believable. Horse of a Different Color is the most consistent and brilliant recording of Willy DeVille's long career.DeVille recorded another version of “Across the Borderline“ with The Mink DeVille Band for a music video. This recording features Willy DeVille on vocals and guitar, Freddy Koëlla on guitar, David Keyes on bass, Boris Kinberg on percussion, and Dorene and Yadonna Wise on background vocals.
The phrase "horse of a different color" means an unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance.
Horse of a Different Color may also refer to:
- Horse of a Different Color (Big & Rich album)
- Horse of a Different Color (Willy DeVille album)
- "A Horse of a Different Color," an episode of the animated television series Rainbow Brite
- "A Horse of a Different Color," an episode in the sixth season of the Showtime television series Dexter
- The Horse of a Different Color, a horse in Emerald City in the film The Wizard of Oz
Usage examples of "horse of a different color".
The knight's horse is pretty big, but not that big, and it's a horse of a different color.
It was true that the hay-colored mare had given birth to a horse of a different color.
Trojan was the horse of a different color, who ruled the dream realm.