Rascal Flatts is currently playing various tour dates in the U.S., with a trip to London planned next month for a couple of shows, and then they will kick off their Rewind Tour in May. When planning their tour, Jay DeMarcus says, “I think that putting on the kinda show that you feel like the fans wanna see and tryin’ to put yourself in the fans’ shoes is somethin’ we’ve always tried to do, and try to do the songs that they wanna hear.”

Jay recalls going to see some of his favorite artists in concert and waiting for them to play their hits. “They were always about tryin’ to try their new material out on people. And you’d always leave a little letdown and frustrated,” he says. “So we’ve always tried to continue to do the songs that everybody wants to hear and put on as much of an entertaining show as we possibly can.”

The Rewind Tour 2014 will feature special guests Sheryl Crow and Gloriana, and will kick off on May 16th in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Jay – “I think that putting on the kinda show that you feel like the fans wanna see and tryin’ to put yourself in the fans’ shoes is somethin’ we’ve always tried to do, and try to do the songs that they wanna hear. You know, that’s a big thing for me, when I was going to a concert as a kid, I would go see these bands that I was such big fans of and they would never do the hits. They were always about tryin’ to try their new material out on people. And you’d always leave a little letdown and frustrated. So we’ve always tried to continue to do the songs that everybody wants to hear and put on as much of an entertaining show as we possibly can.”