Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts由來自哥倫布的Gary Levox、Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney三名成員組成,是一個鄉村音樂風格的樂隊,他們以演唱和諧而聞名。

簡介

是誰說陽光個性男孩不願與鄉村音樂沾邊,誰說鄉村音樂人不可以成為時髦年輕人的偶像?聽聽美國俄亥俄三個帥氣男孩組Rascal Flatts的country music,你會驚喜的發現,原來鄉村可和rock一樣精彩~ 專輯Feels Like Today 結合了electronic,pop,rock,country......等音樂元素,曲風流暢、清新,不失華麗、柔美,簡直無可挑剔 ,Rascal Flatts。
他們會讓你覺得鄉村音樂等同於自由的陽光,愛情的甜蜜......與青春的美好一切......
兩位表兄弟主唱gary levox、貝司手jay demarcus和好朋友吉它手joe don rooney三個人於1999年成立了鄉村音樂三人組合“rascal flatts”,他們的同名首張專輯在發行後的第一周就賣出了11,274張,登上了billboard鄉村音樂專輯排行榜的第14名,在billboard專輯排行榜上名列第122。他們吸收了福音、藍草音樂,pop和r&b的音樂元素,形成了自己緊密和諧的鄉村音樂風格。
livox和demarcus兩人是在俄亥俄州哥倫布的音樂世家中長大的。他們的母親是表姐妹,兩家都習慣全家人圍坐在一起演奏音樂。demarcus的祖父教給他藍草音樂,並教會他演奏原聲吉它和班卓琴。他曾在搖滾樂隊和鄉村樂隊中演奏,1972年,他搬到了納什維爾nashville,開始和基督教歌手michael english一起工作。
1997年,他說服自己表兄弟gary從西海岸搬到了納什維爾,這時他已經成為english的合音歌手。他和這位基督教歌手一起演唱了二重唱“love won't leave you out in the rain”,這首歌被收入english1998年的專輯《gospel》中。表兄弟倆經常在納什維爾的“小提琴與鋼棒吉它酒吧fiddle & steel guitar bar”進行演出。
rooney是在俄克拉荷馬的picher長大的,也出身於一個音樂世家,他的家人經常在俄克拉荷馬州和阿肯色州各地進行家庭演出。rooney接觸過各種音樂風格,19歲時他就開始在俄克拉苛馬州grove的grand lake opry(譯者註:美國歷史最悠久,專門播放鄉村音樂與節目的娛樂機構)節目中每周表演一位grand lake opry的明星。在與chely wright樂隊的鼓手preston stanfield取得聯繫以後,他搬到了納什維爾。
1999年當rooney參加wright的樂隊時,demarcus當時是樂隊的指揮。一天晚上,這對表兄弟的吉它手因事無法參加演出,demarcus就請rooney去頂替。他們唱的第一首歌是shenandoah的“church on cumberland road”,他們感覺彼此的配合是那么的合諧自然,從而三人認定他們必定要在一起合作。demarcus通常是演唱高音部分,但他很高興將高音部讓給rooney那天生自然的高音。這三位歌手認為,是福音音樂教會了他們要互相配合,緊密和諧,並且讓他們知道了音樂的精神作用。
他們開始一起寫歌,並經常在納什維爾的printer's alley一起演出,不久就錄製了自己的樣帶,交給各唱片公司。他們幫tim mcgraw一起工作,製作人dann huff(曾為lonestar,faith hill擔任過製作)非常喜歡他們的樣帶,把它交給了迪斯尼屬下的lyric street records唱片公司,這家公司立即和這個三人組簽了約。2000年上半年,rascal flatts出現了grand ole opry節目中,他們還進行了為期四個月的巡迴演出,推銷自己的專輯。在fan fair(國際鄉村音樂歌迷聚會)的tower records攤位上,他們的專輯銷量第一。他們的首張專輯中包括名列排行榜第五的單曲“prayin' for daylight”。
當rascal flatts於2001年捧回了鄉村音樂學院academy of country music的“最佳樂隊組合top new vocal duo or group”大獎時,他們的一切付出都得到了回報。2002年,他們又獲得了鄉村音樂協會country music association的“年度最佳新人獎horizon award”。他們的第二張專輯《melt》登上鄉村音樂專輯排行榜榜首,並進入了billboard專輯排行榜前五名。
2000年以來,rascal flatts共賣出了四百多萬張專輯,是如今不太景氣的市場上的一個亮點。他們的首張同名專輯達到了白金銷量,其中有四首單曲進入了排行榜前十行列。他們的第二張專輯《melt》達到了數倍白金銷量,至今仍在鄉村音樂排行榜高位馳騁。2004年的新專輯《feels like today》,則一舉奪取了鄉村音樂專輯榜和billboard專輯排行榜雙榜冠軍,很快達到了白金銷量。
專輯《Feels Like Today》中的單曲《Bless The Broken Road》獲得2005年度第48屆葛萊美獎“年度最佳單曲”獎的提名之後,在美國本來就已經頗受歡迎的當代鄉村三人組合Rascal Flatts的人氣又有了明顯的提升。Rascal Flatts的第四張專輯《Me and My Gang》在4月4日發行後第一周內就狂賣了72萬2千張,輕鬆稱霸本周的Billboard 200專輯榜和本周的鄉村專輯榜。同時,Rascal Flatts的這張專輯還刷新了南方說唱歌手T.I.的新專輯《King》創造的2006年專輯單周最高的銷量紀錄,超出了約20萬張。
Rascal Flatts也在2007年發行專輯Still Feels Good ,反響十分不錯,也憑藉這張專輯提名第51屆格萊美最佳鄉村樂隊。目前最新專輯《unstoppable 》也已經在09年4月7日發行。和很多美國當代鄉村組合一樣,Rascal Flatts的音樂中並沒有傳統鄉村音樂的感覺,使用的傳統鄉村樂器也並不是很多,甚至有很多老牌鄉村音樂人還批評Rascal Flatts的音樂太過流行化,就連組合成員Jay DeMarcus也笑稱Rascal Flatts其實就是當代鄉村音樂屆的后街男孩(Backstreet Boys)和超級男孩(N Sync)。不過,Rascal Flatts就是以這種略帶鄉村感覺的情歌路線獲得了電台和歌迷的青睞。在本張專輯中,Rascal Flatts仍舊延用了這種成功模式,其中較為出色的歌曲包括:首支打榜單曲《What Hurts The Most》,《I Feel Bad》以及《Yes I Do》等。
2010年,rascal flatts真人出演CSI拉斯維加斯第十季第14集。

成員介紹

成員有:Gary LeVox,Jay DeMarcus,JoeDon Rooney
Gary LeVox 
出生日期:1970年7月10日(10 July 1970)
出生地:美國俄亥俄州首府哥倫布(Columbus,Ohio,USA)
出生名: Gary Wayne Vernon Jr.
身高: 1.83 m
配偶: Tara Vernon (1999年5月15 ~) 2 個孩子
瑣事:
⒈是樂隊Rascal Flatts的主唱.
⒉是樂隊Rascal Flatts的組合成員Jay Demarcus親戚(Second cousin)
⒊有2個漂亮的女兒: Brittany Kay Vernon (2000年8月26日出生),Brooklyn Leigh Vernon (2004年3月21日出生)
曾經說過的話:
I loved to sing. I sang all the time . . . I still do.(我熱愛唱歌.我一直都唱…我會一直唱下去)
JoeDon Rooney 
出生日期:1975年9月13日
出生地:美國堪薩斯州(Baxter Springs,Kansas,USA)
暱稱:Jodee
身高:1.88 m
配偶:Tiffany Fallon (2006年4月23日~)
瑣事:
⒈是樂隊Rascal Flatts的吉他手/歌手.
⒉他演奏電子的,非電子的和低音吉他,他也演奏曼陀林
⒊他的寵物有一隻達克斯獵狗叫傑克,還有一隻牛頭獒叫可可
⒋目前駕駛一輛 Chevy SSR.
⒌喜歡打高爾夫.他說如果他不走演藝路線那么他將成為一名業餘高爾夫球手
⒍每次離家必須帶著他的高爾夫球桿和吉他
⒎在俄克拉荷馬州的謝爾(Picher,Oklahoma)長大
Jay DeMarcus 
出生日期:1971年4月26日
出生地: 美國俄亥俄州首府哥倫布(Columbus,Ohio,USA)
出生名:Stanley Wayne DeMarcus Jr.
身高: 1.83 m
配偶:Allison Demarcus (2004年5月15日~)
瑣事
⒈彈奏鋼琴,吉他,鼓,和貝司
⒉有一半的義大利血統.
⒊是他所在組合Rascal Flatts中的主唱Gary Levox的二表兄
⒋曾經出現在基督教樂隊"East to West"中
⒌是樂隊Rascal Flatts中的多重樂器演奏家/歌手.
⒍在樂隊錄製MTV "These Days"中遇到了他現在的妻子.
⒎是整個樂隊中的喜劇角色.很有喜劇表演的天分.

音樂作品

音樂專輯

Rascal Flatt

專輯介紹:
From RollingStone:
Nashville superstar Chely Wright's backing band members were so talented that they went out and started their own musical project,the fruit of which is Rascal Flatts. Where Wright tends toward the more twangy roots of country music,Rascal Flatts take the foundation of country songs and layer on R&B-inspired rhythms and pop-rooted harmonies. With their boyish good looks,seemingly Christian optimism and Colgate smiles,they have garnered many more comparisons to boy bands than country pop acts.
From No doubt,these suburban cowboys play country music for Friday-afternoon drive times and Saturday nights at the mall,not the honky-tonk,the ranch,or the porch. With harmonies as squeaky-clean as their faces,Rascal Flatts relish the pop and lite-groove direction that the genre has taken at the turn of the century. In fact,they seem to take pride in their distance from hard-core country roots. To their credit,this trio of earnest young men sounds as if they are truly enjoying themselves as they run through their bouncy,bubbly love songs. And at least these boys don't pay lip service to keeping country traditions alive in 2000. Heck,they even find the fact that their label has "the power of Disney" behind it "really exciting." If you're looking for music with instantly digestible pop melodies,tight harmonies,and very little grit,Rascal Flatts will delight you and they will most likely delight their Disney-backed label,who's obviously taken aim squarely at the teenage market. Goes down as easy as a milkshake--a nonfat milkshake. --Marc Greilsamer

Feels Like Today

Song Of The Year
Bless The Broken Road
Bobby Boyd,Jeff Hanna & Marcus Hummon,songwriters (Rascal Flatts)
Track from: Feels Like Today
[Lyric Street Records; Publishers: Careers-BMG Music,Floyd's Dream Music,Jeff Diggs Music.]
Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
Bless The Broken Road
Rascal Flatts
Track from: Feels Like Today
[Lyric Street Records]
Best Country Song
Bless The Broken Road
Bobby Boyd,Jeff Hanna & Marcus Hummon,songwriters (Rascal Flatts)
Track from: Feels Like Today
[Lyric Street Records; Publishers: Careers-BMG Music,Floyd's Dream Music,Jeff Diggs Music.]

Me And My Gang

This fourth effort from the soft-rock-masquerading-as-country band Rascal Flatts moved more than 721,000 copies its first week out,which let the female-friendly trio rub elbows with some mighty heady company. Only four other country artists (Garth Brooks,Shania Twain,the Dixie Chicks,and Tim McGraw) have rolled out numbers like that,and only 24 other acts total (including Eminem,50 Cent,U2,and Coldplay). So what's the hook,besides Gary LeVox's wounded tenor and Joe Don Rooney's boy-band face? Clearly,it's the songs. Or it usually is. On Me and My Gang,"What Hurts the Most" is the one that'll end up on a tape loop in your head,though "Yes,I Do" memorably frames romantic yearning and regret with ersatz reggae rhythms,and the sexy "Cool Thing" does a slow burn. The problem? New producer Dann ("King of Excess") Huff bloats too many tunes with screaming,by-the-book guitars and general bombast. And despite his über success with Faith Hill and Keith Urban,Huff has never really understood what makes country,well... country. Instead,he insultingly works in a snippet of steel guitar and a couple of family lyrics--e.g.,the melodramatic "Ellsworth" is meant to pull the heartstrings of anyone who's seen the cruelty of Alzheimer's--and thinks he's thrown Nashville a bone. Worse,"Backwards" boringly reworks that hoary ol' country joke "What do you get when you play a country song backwards?," the title song is a Big & Rich ripoff,and even God gets dragged in for a half-baked attempt at middle-America resonance ("He Ain't the Leavin' Kind"). C'mon now. Call these boys pop and be done with the pandering. Joe Don's famously photographed derrière got a fairer crack than this.

Still Feels Good

By any measure,Rascal Flatts has entered elite territory. Six years into a career marked by superlatives,they have become country music's premiere young headliners. Hits like "These Days," "I'm Movin' On," "I Melt," "Bless The Broken Road," and "What Hurts the Most" have taken them repeatedly to the top of the charts. They have sold over twelve-million records,with their fourth CD,Me and My Gang,charging to double-platinum in ONE week. They have pulled in a host of awards and accolades,and are the reigning CMA,ACM,CMT and ASCAP Vocal Group of the Year. They have played for the President and First Lady,become national spokesmen for the American Red Cross,and hosted a farewell tribute to the legendary group Alabama,to whom they continue to draw comparisons.

Best of Ballad

Greatest Hits: Volume 1
歌手: Rascal Flatts
發行時間: 2008年10月28日
地區: 美國
語言: 英語
唱片公司:Lyric street/Hollywood
音樂類型:Country
專輯曲目:
CD 1
01. Prayin' For Daylight
02. I'm Movin' On
03. These Days
04. I Melt
05. Mayberry
06. Feels Like Today
07. Bless The Broken Road
08. Fast Cars & Freedom
09. Skin (Sarabeth)
⒑What Hurts The Most
⒒My Wish
⒓Stand
⒔Life Is A Highway
CD 2
01. White Christmas
02. Jingle Bell Rock
03. I'll Be Home For Christmas
唱片介紹:
Rascal Flatts由來自哥倫布的Gary Levox、Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney三名成員組成,是一個鄉村音樂風格的樂隊,他們以演唱和諧而聞名。
和很多美國當代鄉村組合一樣,Rascal Flatts的音樂中並沒有傳統鄉村音樂的感覺,使用的傳統鄉村樂器也並不是很多,甚至有很多老牌鄉村音樂人還批評Rascal Flatts的音樂太過流行化,就連組合成員Jay DeMarcus也笑稱Rascal Flatts其實就是當代鄉村音樂屆的后街男孩(Backstreet Boys)和超級男孩(N Sync)。不過,Rascal Flatts就是以這種略帶鄉村感覺的情歌路線獲得了電台和歌迷的青睞。這是他們的超級精選。

美國鄉村音樂冠軍單曲

"These Days" (2002) (3 weeks)
"Mayberry" (2004)
"Bless the Broken Road" (2005) (5 weeks)
"Fast Cars and Freedom" (2005) (3 weeks)
"What Hurts the Most" (2006) (4 weeks)
"My Wish" (2006)"Stand" (2007)
"Take Me There" (2007) (3 weeks)
"Here" (2009) (2 weeks)
"Here Comes Goodbye" (2009)

巡迴演唱會

Jo Dee Messina's Burn Tour — 2000-2001
I Melt Tour — 2002–2003
Brooks & Dunn's Neon Circus & Wild West Show – 2003
Here's to You Tour — 2004–2005
Me & My Gang Tour — 2006–2007
Still Feels Good Tour — 2007–2008
Bob That Head Tour — 2008–2009
American Living Unstoppable Tour — 2009–2010
Nothing Like This Tour -- 2010-2011

獲獎情況

2000
ACM Top New Vocal Duo Or Group
2002
CMA Horizon Award
ACM Song of the Year ("I'm Movin' On")
ACM Top Vocal Group
2003
CMT Flameworthy Video Music Award for Group/Duo of the Year
CMA Vocal Group of the Year
ACM Top Vocal Group
2004
CMT Flameworthy Music Video Award for Group/Duo of the Year
CMA Vocal Group
ACM Top Vocal Group
2005
CMT Music Award for Group/Duo of the Year
CMA Vocal Group of the Year
ACM Top Vocal Group
2006
CMT Music Award for Group/Duo of the Year
ACM Top Vocal Group
CMA Vocal Group of the Year
AMA Favorite Country Band,Duo or Group
AMA T-Mobile Text-In Award
People's Choice Awards Favorite Song from a Movie ("Life Is A Highway")
People's Choice Awards Favorite Song Remake ("Life Is A Highway")
CMT Loaded Awards – Number One Digitally Active Group/Duo
CMT Loaded Awards – Number One Streamed Music Video ("What Hurts the Most")
2007
CMT Best Group Video of the Year ("What Hurts the Most")
ACM Top Vocal Group
CMA Vocal Group of the Year
AMA Favorite Country Band,Duo or Group
2008
People's Choice Awards Favorite Country Song ("Stand")
People's Choice Awards Favorite Group
CMT Music Award for Group Video of the Year ("Take Me There")[14]
ACM Top Vocal Group
ACM Humanitarian Award
CMA Vocal Group of the Year
AMA Favorite Country Band,Duo or Group
2009
People's Choice Awards Favorite Group
ACM Top Vocal Group
CMT Music Award for Group Video of the Year ("Every Day")
AMA Favorite Country Band,Duo or Group

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