(Rascal Flatts plays First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre on Saturday night.)
By Steve Knopper, Special to the Tribune 6:41 a.m. CDT, June 23, 2011
After five years of making hit albums, in 2004 Rascal Flatts' Joe Don Rooney was frustrated. He was a rising country star with songs all over the radio, selling out arenas everywhere. But he was also a guitarist, and he was barely able to play on any of his own records.
"When I look at it, yeah, I was pissed off. Jay (DeMarcus, the trio's bassist) and I didn't play a lot on those albums," the 35-year-old singer says in a phone interview from a pre-tour rehearsal in Tupelo, Miss. "At the same time, we had some amazing hit songs."
For the band's first five years, its record label, Disney-owned Lyric Street, brought in producers and session musicians to churn out hit records quickly. And it worked — Rascal Flatts' first three albums would sell more than 9 million copies, establishing the band as country's biggest superstar act between the commercial fall of the Dixie Chicks and the rise of Taylor Swift. But slowly, subtly, Rooney and DeMarcus (who form the trio with lead singer Gary LeVox) played politics. They brought in an old friend, veteran guitarist Dann Huff, who had discovered the band in Nashville clubs, and he gave them the gift of freedom.

他们的图片拍来拍去这个POSE

被和谐了 不要重复发被和谐地址 会被封IP



这我倒没差
我是浮动IP 所以把网路拔掉5分钟后再插上又是个不同的IP了~
不过为了避免一直被百度吃掉老是贴不出来
还是截个图了~~~
神奇的是1楼最后一个字居然没被和谐!!!!!!

度娘今天被艹了 身心大爽

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