Rascal Flatts is all about progress in music and trying new tricks in the studio, but they also believe there’s something to be said for live musicianship. Joe Don Rooney says, “It’s so true in this day and age you can take a laptop and make a great song and play everything via a laptop by way of MIDI. I mean it’s amazing what you can come up with. There’s still something to be said for bringing a full band into a studio, like we did in this album, and having wonderful players in Nashville, Tennessee that play. There’s a spirit there that happens that is intangible. You can’t do that with a laptop you can’t feel it that way.”
Gary, Jay and Joe Don will always be open to trying new things, but they will never stop utilizing live humans in a studio to play on their albums and their songs, like their latest single, “Back to Us.” As Joe Don explains, “You can make great music but there’s a spirit that happens with people, real humans in a room making music and an engineer pullin’ the faders up and down and that’s the soul of what we love about music. That’s what keeps us hungry for making more music. And, gosh almighty you just can’t beat that. I don’t see us ever changing that method of making music.”
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Joe Don Rooney – “You know it’s so true in this day and age you can take a laptop and make a great song and play everything via a laptop by way of MIDI. I mean it’s amazing what you can come up with. There’s still something to be said for bringing a full band into a studio, like we did in this album, and having wonderful players in Nashville, Tennessee that play. There’s a spirit there that happens that is intangible. You can’t do that with a laptop you can’t feel it that way. You can make great music but there’s a spirit that happens with people, real humans in a room making music and an engineer pullin’ the faders up and down and that’s the soul of what we love about music. That’s what keeps us hungry for making more music. And, gosh almighty you just can’t beat that. I don’t see us ever changing that method of making music.”