Rascal Flatts is working on a new album that they hope to release in either late spring or early summer, and just as they did on their Christmas album and their last studio album, they’ve enjoyed self-producing some of the new project. According to Jay DeMarcus, “I don’t think we could have done it 10 years ago, like when we were like running at such a harried pace and things are happening at a breakneck speed. We needed someone else to help us make decisions and guide the ship.”
Now that they’re a little older, a little wiser and have a pretty solid grip on who they are as artists, Jay says, “It’s kind of nice that we can all get in there now and just work toward one goal and be very relaxed. We don’t really, you know, this sounds so bad, we want to prove more but the pressure’s off. We don’t have to prove anything else. We want to prove it to ourselves that we can be better than we were before, and that’s what’s important.”
Rascal Flatts’ latest single, “Yours If You Want It,” is the first release off their forthcoming album.
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Rascal Flatts – more mature in process :35
Jay DeMarcus – “I don’t think we could have done it 10 years ago, like when we were like running at such a harried pace and things are happening at a breakneck speed. We needed someone else to help us make decisions and guide the ship. But it’s really fun now to be a little older a little more mature and not be so caught up on so many petty little things. So it’s kind of nice that we can all get in there now and just work toward one goal and be very relaxed. We don’t really, you know, this sounds so bad, we want to prove more but the pressure’s off. We don’t have to prove anything else. We want to prove it to ourselves that we can be better than we were before, and that’s what’s important.”