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Nashville, TN…(February 4, 2010)…Last night, Rascal Flatts’ Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney gathered at the Musician’s Hall of Fame in Nashville to pay tribute to the boys who make the noise on 16^th Avenue with a private event celebrating the eighty songwriters who have contributed their creative talents to the band’s 6 previously released studio albums. “It starts with a song and it ends with a song,” said Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus. “We can talk about ‘Bless The Broken Road’ and ‘I’m Movin’ On’ that were amazing singles for us, but equally as important are those songs that were on our albums that never became singles. Those songs too touched people’s lives each and every day.”

The night kicked-off with a surprise appearance by Thom Schuyler who performed his well-known hit, “16^th Avenue,” in homage to the gathered songwriters. The evening’s festivities also featured live acoustic stagings of eight of the band’s eleven #1 hits by the original songwriters. These moving and sometimes funny performances included “Here Comes Goodbye,” performed by Clint Lagerberg and Chris Sligh, “Mayberry,” performed by Arlos Smith, and Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley’s performance of “Take Me There.”   

As the evening wrapped, Rascal Flatts honored each member of the assembled group with a custom engraved plaque honoring the songwriters and songs of the band’s first ten years.

ABOUT RASCAL FLATTS: Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney are kicking off 2010 with a bang as they mark not only the beginning of a new decade but also celebrate ten years of making great music together, becoming one of the hottest touring acts and the top-selling country group of the new millennium. The band has delivered 11 #1 singles to the top of the charts and has more titles in Billboard’s Top 100 Songs of the Decade than any other group in the format. Over ten years the band has sold more than 20 million albums and 25 million digital downloads while all six of their studio albums made Billboard’s Top 100 Country Albums of the Decade listing. As the most awarded country group of the new millenium Rascal Flatts has brought home nearly 40 trophies from the Academy of Country Music, American Music Awards, Country Music Association, People’s Choice Awards and more.  In concert, Rascal Flatts continues to be one of the hottest touring acts of the decade with more venue attendance records than any other country act. They have played 400 dates as a headline act, 700 total since 2000, with a ticket tally of nearly 6 million. These shows include 3 consecutive sold-out performances at Madison Square Garden and the band also became the first and only country music act to sell out Wrigley Field. Gary, Jay and Joe Don have traveled to visit U.S. troops in Iraq on a USO Tour and partnered with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee to raise over 3 million dollars in the past few years. Visit www.rascalflatts10.comto learn more about a decade of Rascal Flatts.

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