Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts sounds like it could be the name of an obscure geographic feature or an old-West train robber, but it's neither - it's actually the name of a country band, and great one to boot. The wildly successful country-fried trio formed in 1999, when bassist Jay DeMarcus left his spot in the Christian rock outfit East To West to form a band with his second cousin and longtime musical partner Gary Levox, who'd just moved into Nashville after leaving his job at a school for disadvantaged children in Ohio. With Gary taking on vocal duties the duo then went on search for a suitable guitarist, eventually adding country-rock shredder Joe Don Rooney (formerly of Unclethumbtack) into the mix a few months later. The trio began penning songs together in Jay's brothers' house, soon coalescing into Rascal Flatts.

Nashville is a hard town for a new band to catch a break in - it is the country music capitol of the world, after all - but Rascal Flatts worked hard to earn their musical stripes. The band became a regular at bars and honky tonks throughout Nashville, routinely lighting up stages at high-status clubs all throughout the city's chic Printer's Alley district. One of their shows caught the attention of a representative from Disney's newly-formed Lyric Street Records label (SHeDAISY, Bucky Covington), and Rascal Flatts fond themselves with a record contract before the end of 1999. They went on to release their self-titled debut Rascal Flatts a year later in 2000; a runaway double-Platinum success, Rascal Flatts soared to the top of the country charts based on the popularity of "Prayin' for Daylight", the band's first single. The boys hit the ground running with their debut, but their success didn't end there. Their next album (2002's Melt) also topped the Billboard Hot Country Albums chart (selling some 3,000,000-odd copies in the process), while their third album (2004's 5x Platinum Feels Like Today) also managed to claim the #1 spot on the all-inclusive Billboard Top 200 chart - no small success for a country-pop trio that formed less than a decade earlier. Rascal Flatts has released two studio albums since Feels Like Today (2006's Me and My Gang and 2007's Still Feels Good), as well as a live concert album and a compilation album. All told the band has produced a whopping 23 singles, 9 of which managed to rise to #1 - among them "Bless the Broken Road", "Here", "What Hurts the Most", and "My Wish". Rascal Flatts plans to release their seventh album, aptly titled Unstoppable, sometime in 2009.

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  • mcangay on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 said...

    hey why dont you visit the philippines

  • mcangay on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 said...

    hey why dont you visit the philippines

  • mcangay on Fri Oct 9th, 2009 said...

    hey why dont you visit the philippines

  • countrygrl716 on Sat Feb 7th, 2009 said...

    much love............... biggest fan

  • CountryLover on Fri Nov 28th, 2008 said...

    Awesome work guys!!!!
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