Rascal Flatts plans new disc for September
The trio has enjoyed increasing success including being the best selling artist across all genres of music and playing to more than 1 million fans in 74 cities in 2006.
Rascal Flatts - Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney - are on the second half of their successful "Me And My Gang" tour and hitting the studio with award-winning producer Dann Huff to record music for their fifth studio album. Huff previously has worked with the band.
When "Me And My Gang," the band's most recent album, was released in April 2006 it debuted with more than 721,000 units sold, making it the biggest unit debut of last year. The disc was number 1 on SoundScan's weekly Top 200 sales chart for 3 weeks, more consecutive weeks than any artist in any genre last year.
In the six years since the release of their debut album, the band has scanned more than 14 million units through traditional brick and mortar and online retail outlets. The band's two most recent albums, "Me And My Gang" and "Feels Like Today" are both certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA for sales of more than 4 million units. "Rascal Flatts" and "Melt" are both certified double platinum.
More news for Rascal Flatts
- 03/28/25: Shelton, Flatts revamp "Mayberry"
- 03/14/25: Rascal Flatts is "Movin' On" with Clarkson
- 10/01/24: Rascal Flatts returns
- 05/31/24: LeVox goes live
- 08/26/22: LeVox will "Get Down Like That"
- 01/27/22: DeMarcus forms country label, signs Griffin
- 05/21/21: Shelton, Hiatt/Douglas, LeVox release new music
- 06/22/20: Rascal Flatts announces EP for July
CD reviews for Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts' swan song EP grapples with the issues like legacy, time and memory. Right off the bat, "How They Remember You" posits that it's not a question of if, but how we're remembered. After we leave this planet for good, we won't be forgotten. However, we will be remembered, and we'd like to be remembered well. Then again, if one assumes there is no afterlife, does it really even matter? If there is no one to remember you, your legacy is basically a moot point. ...
As summer insistently steps forward and knocks at our doorstep with bright sunny rays and promises of sun-soaked hijinks, longtime pop country superstars Rascal Flatts aim to provide the perfect soundtrack with "Back To Us." Loaded with the band's signature tight harmonies and upbeat jams built around lyrics of love and loss, Rascal Flatts doesn't move far off the beaten path while carving out a high energy declaration of summer love.
Fans looking for those beach cruising jams ...
It's the big things - and sometimes the little things - that make Rascal Flatts' Christmas album "The Greatest Gift of All" stand out. On the macro level, the country vocal trio put a little funk - well, as much funk as three Nashville guys can muster - into "Go Tell It on The Mountain." And then, the cool little bass line introducing "Let It Snow" helps differentiate this act's version from possibly millions of other versions.
Much of "The ...
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