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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Rascal Flatts Thinks Big With "Goodbye"

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GAC host Nan Kelley chats with Rascal Flatts on the set of Top 20 Country Countdown.

March 25, 2009 — Rascal Flatts made a huge impact with "Here Comes Goodbye," the first single from the forthcoming Unstoppable album.
Written by former "American Idol" contestant Chris Sligh, the song is ranked at No. 7 on the USA Today Mediabase country singles chart. The band is not surprised at all by its success; they knew it was significant right from the moment they heard it.
"It was one of the first songs that we put on hold for this project, and we knew we had something special," guitarist Joe Don Rooney said on GAC's Top 20 Country Countdown. "It was just a piano/vocal. And something like that, that can be that big-sounding already in itself in that small of a demo, we knew we had something very special. And I remember Jay [DeMarcus] and Dann Huff, our pr oducer, talking about 'We should cut this big band. It should be full and big, you know, string sections, make this really powerful, pull all the emotion out of it. And it does. It builds throughout the song, until the end, you just gotta catch a breath."
The Unstoppable album comes out April 7, just two days after the "44th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards", where the band is nominated for Top Vocal Group. If Rascal Flatts wins, it will pass Alabama, becoming the first act ever to claim that trophy seven years in a row.
GAC's Headline Country presents a special ACM Preview edition Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET. The episode looks at the top nominees — including Brad Paisley and Heidi Newfield — as well as the finalists for Top New Artist of the Year: Jake Owen, Julianne Hough and the Zac Brown Band.

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