This year marks Rascal Flatts 20th year as a band, and for many of those years, Gary LeVox says, “We’ve spent our entire career ripping the side mirrors off and just totally focusing straight ahead.”
But several years ago they finally slowed down long enough to reflect back on where they had been, and more importantly, where they wanted to go in the future. Gary says, “We kind of had to take a look around and see what was going on and what we wanted to do and what we still had to say. We’ve always kinda, not been trendsetters, but we’ve always pushed the envelope and kind of made our own way with our own sound and really pushed it.”
These days, Rascal Flatts is choosing to make music one song at a time, like their latest single, “Back to Life,” as opposed to feeling obligated to crank out a new album every year or two years. And even 20 years into their career, Gary says, “We truly feel like we’re just getting started and we’ve got amazing amounts of music to make that we’re real excited about.”
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Gary LeVox – “We’ve spent our entire career ripping the side mirrors off and just totally focusing straight ahead. And then once we switched record labels and switched management and all that, we kind of had to take a look around and see what was going on and what we wanted to do and what we still had to say. We’ve always kinda, not been trendsetters, but we’ve always pushed the envelope and kind of made our own way with our own sound and really pushed it. And we’ve always continued to push ourselves to what is the next thing that we can do. And it’s so weird all those years that went by cause we truly feel like we’re just getting started and we’ve got amazing amounts of music to make that we’re real excited about.”