Tim McGraw has done it, Toby Keith has done, and by God, Big Kenny Alphin is going to do it too. The larger member of the country music group Big & Rich will follow his Nashville brethren into an acting career, getting ready to star in Free Like Me, a drama directed by relatively inexperienced helmer Ezna Sands.

Production Weekly includes the production in this week's issue, along with a plot description that sounds like it wouldn't make a half-bad country song. "After being devastated by a traumatic loss, Cole flees to a remote Caribbean island to lick his wounds and drink himself into oblivion. There he befriends local with her own traumatic past and realizes in spite of his loss, that he’s still a lucky man with much to be thankful for."

Sounds like the kind of movie you'd want to spend with a country music star, in a tropical location and with some easy-to-swallow life lessons. Production stars in mid-April in Nashville and the Dominican Republic, so maybe it'll be ready as an early winter escape by the end of the year.