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Rascal Flatts is currently out on their Life Is A Highway Tour, celebrating their 25th anniversary as a band, but Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney each remember one of the first albums in their life that made a lasting impression on them as a musician and a music lover.
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Jay DeMarcus – “Chicago 17 shaped my whole vision of music from that point on out. I mean, it blew my mind, and I knew, I wanna make that kind of music that makes me feel the way that music does when I hear it. ‘You’re the Inspiration,’ ‘Hard Habit to Break,’ ‘Stay the Night,’ come on.
Gary LeVox – “Something that had probably the biggest impact was Thriller. (That’s a good one.) It just changed my whole view of music, you know. (Jay sings Michael Jackson).
Joe Don Rooney – “I think Vince Gill’s Pocket Full of Gold was one of ‘em that I remember hearing the first time thinking, ‘My gosh, this guy can do it all.’ And it had that bluegrass, high lonesome sound to it, and it had straight down the middle country, and had a little edge of rock to there. You know, it had all the stuff that I loved about music on one album.”
