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If you've been Waiting All Your Life for a follow-up to our Rascal Flatts episode (18), this is your time!! With the band officially re-formed and on their own redemption tour, we figured the Year Of Redemption was the perfect time to check out their self-titled debut album! After Me And My Gang pierced our nostalgic rose-colored glasses, we'll learn if getting right down to the DNA of Rascal Flatts' boy band-esque country sound can recalibrate our perceptions. After a fortuitous founding in a Nashville club, Jay, Gary, and Joe Don introduced themselves to the world with memorable tracks like Prayin' For Daylight, This Everyday Love, and I'm Movin' On. With sleek harmonies, hooky choruses, and a family-friendly polish, find out what's made the band so unreplicatable over the decades.
James & Connor will talk about why Me And My Gang went sideways and dive deeper into the band's founding. A lot has changed since Episode 18! We'll revisit Hot Chicken Takeover (RIP) and the creation of Spinny, and then talk about what Rascal Flatts has been up to for the last five years (and why reunion seemed so out of reach)! Then The Mixtaper shocks us during Fact Or Spin as we learn the expensive REAL origins behind the band's name, visit a secret supper club, and learn to Walk The Llama Llama... it's truly deep-cut, must-see Rascal Flatts lore. Some Say it's a redemption, I say... take a listen and decide for yourself this week.
Do you feel the Rascal Flatts nostalgia? Are you more into the rock-leaning Me And My Gang, or the sleek polish of their 2000 debut? Did you ever imagine they'd collab with the JONAS BROTHERS?! Let us know your rascaliest, flattest thoughts in the comments and on social media! Like and subscribe for more next week!
Keep Spinning at www.SpinItPod.com!
Thanks for listening!
0:00 Intro
0:26 Last Time: Me & My Gang
6:24 About Rascal Flatts (The Band)
8:44 About Rascal Flatts (The Album)
16:56 The Reunion!
19:50 Awards & Accolades
20:57 Fact Or Spin
22:22 They Are Rascal Flatts 2.0
27:46 Gary's Secret Supper Club
31:27 They Were Almost In The Emperor's New Groove
37:55 Jay DeMarcus Got Electrocuted
43:46 Album Art
44:19 Prayin' For Daylight
46:43 This Everyday Love
49:23 While You Loved Me
52:29 Some Say
54:03 See Me Through
56:28 One Good Love
57:59 It's Not Just Me
59:22 Waiting All My Life
1:00:41 From Time To Time
1:02:44 Long Slow Beautiful Dance
1:05:25 I'm Movin' On
1:07:42 Final Spin
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By James & Connor5
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If you've been Waiting All Your Life for a follow-up to our Rascal Flatts episode (18), this is your time!! With the band officially re-formed and on their own redemption tour, we figured the Year Of Redemption was the perfect time to check out their self-titled debut album! After Me And My Gang pierced our nostalgic rose-colored glasses, we'll learn if getting right down to the DNA of Rascal Flatts' boy band-esque country sound can recalibrate our perceptions. After a fortuitous founding in a Nashville club, Jay, Gary, and Joe Don introduced themselves to the world with memorable tracks like Prayin' For Daylight, This Everyday Love, and I'm Movin' On. With sleek harmonies, hooky choruses, and a family-friendly polish, find out what's made the band so unreplicatable over the decades.
James & Connor will talk about why Me And My Gang went sideways and dive deeper into the band's founding. A lot has changed since Episode 18! We'll revisit Hot Chicken Takeover (RIP) and the creation of Spinny, and then talk about what Rascal Flatts has been up to for the last five years (and why reunion seemed so out of reach)! Then The Mixtaper shocks us during Fact Or Spin as we learn the expensive REAL origins behind the band's name, visit a secret supper club, and learn to Walk The Llama Llama... it's truly deep-cut, must-see Rascal Flatts lore. Some Say it's a redemption, I say... take a listen and decide for yourself this week.
Do you feel the Rascal Flatts nostalgia? Are you more into the rock-leaning Me And My Gang, or the sleek polish of their 2000 debut? Did you ever imagine they'd collab with the JONAS BROTHERS?! Let us know your rascaliest, flattest thoughts in the comments and on social media! Like and subscribe for more next week!
Keep Spinning at www.SpinItPod.com!
Thanks for listening!
0:00 Intro
0:26 Last Time: Me & My Gang
6:24 About Rascal Flatts (The Band)
8:44 About Rascal Flatts (The Album)
16:56 The Reunion!
19:50 Awards & Accolades
20:57 Fact Or Spin
22:22 They Are Rascal Flatts 2.0
27:46 Gary's Secret Supper Club
31:27 They Were Almost In The Emperor's New Groove
37:55 Jay DeMarcus Got Electrocuted
43:46 Album Art
44:19 Prayin' For Daylight
46:43 This Everyday Love
49:23 While You Loved Me
52:29 Some Say
54:03 See Me Through
56:28 One Good Love
57:59 It's Not Just Me
59:22 Waiting All My Life
1:00:41 From Time To Time
1:02:44 Long Slow Beautiful Dance
1:05:25 I'm Movin' On
1:07:42 Final Spin
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.