Rascal Flatts’ new Christmas album, The Greatest Gift of All, features a lot of very familiar holiday classics like “Silent Night,” “Let It Snow” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” but it also includes a couple of Christmas songs that not everybody might be familiar with, including one called “Strange Way to Save the World.” Jay DeMarcus explains, “Strange Way to Save the World has been one of my favorite Christmas songs forever since it’s been out since 4Him put it on their record in ’93, I think it was, something like that.”
The guys actually performed the song a couple of years ago as part of the CMA Country Christmas special. Jay says, ”It’s so hard to come up with something somebody hasn’t done before. And I played it for the guys and Joe Don said, “Man, I used to play that at the Ozark Theater. I know that song.’ And Gary, of course, had been familiar with it because I played it all the time that we were living together and everything. So we decided to do it and it got great response at the CMA Country Christmas. So it was just one of the ones we felt like we had to put on the record because you know it hasn’t had a lot of mass exposure.”
Again, you can hear “Strange Way to Save the World” on Rascal Flatts’ new Christmas album, The Greatest Gift of All, which is available now.
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Rascal Flatts – Strange Way to Save the World :45
Jay DeMarcus – “Strange Way to Save the World, has been one of my favorite Christmas songs forever since it’s been out since 4Him put it on their record in ’93, I think it was, something like that. And strangely enough when we were thinking about it you know you always get asked to do that CMA Country Christmas show and it’s so hard to come up with something somebody hasn’t done before. And I played it for the guys and Joe Don said, “Man, I used to play that at the Ozark Theater. I know that song.’ And Gary, of course, had been familiar with it because I played it all the time that we were living together and everything. So we decided to do it and it got great response at the CMA Country Christmas. So it was just one of the ones we felt like we had to put on the record because you know it hasn’t had a lot of mass exposure.”