Ten albums into their career, Rascal Flatts considers their latest album, Back To Us, one of their best and Jay DeMarcus says a lot of that is due to them following their passion when it comes to picking the best songs to record.  “You know we’ve always just tried to cut music we’ve been passionate about. It’s not calculated to any degree. We certainly want to be better with each album. You know we try to push ourselves. But at the end of the day everything begins and ends with a song. And we’ve been fortunate enough to get our hands on some songs that have been timeless. They’ve hit people where they live. They’ve hit people emotionally where they are at certain points of their life. And I think that’s what matters the most.”

While the guys take pride in being able to write some of the songs they record, their first priority is recording the best songs.  “We are the first to say when a song comes in if it beats one that we’ve written, we’re the first to say we’ve got to cut that song. It’s better than what we have,” says Jay.  “And I think that’s been a key to the success that we’ve had over the years. And we don’t really worry about what the critics have to say when we make our music we make our music for the fans and I think that’s kept us where we need to be to because we make the music for them and I think that they can see that and they feel that.”

Rascal Flatts’ latest top five single, “Yours If You Want It,” was co-written by Jonathan Singleton and the late Andrew Dorff

Rascal Flatts – formula for music  1:18

Jay DeMarcus – “You know we’ve always just tried to cut music we’ve been passionate about. It’s not calculated to any degree. We certainly want to be better with each album. You know we try to push ourselves. But at the end of the day everything begins and ends with a song. And we’ve been fortunate enough to get our hands on some songs that have been timeless. They’ve hit people where they live. They’ve hit people emotionally where they are at certain points of their life. And I think that’s what matters the most. We’ve had people come through our meet and greet line and I think the biggest compliment any artist can have is, ‘You’ve been the soundtrack to my life. I got married to ‘Broken Road’. We take road trips as a family to ‘Life is a Highway’. We graduated to ‘My Wish’.’  We’ve been able to get our hands on some songs that not only move us but have resonated with the fans as well. And I think that’s what we continue to push ourselves to do. We are the first to say when a song comes in if it beats one that we’ve written, we’re the first to say we’ve got to cut that song. It’s better than what we have. And I think that’s been a key to the success that we’ve had over the years. And we don’t really worry about what the critics have to say when we make our music we make our music for the fans and I think that’s kept us where we need to be to because we make the music for them and I think that they can see that and they feel that.”