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In 1992, Jay DeMarcus packed up his music skills (vocals, bass, guitar, keyboards, mandolin and more), and was the first to move to Nashville. In 1997, Jay finally convinced his cousin Gary LeVox to give up his day-job back in Columbus and bring his incredible voice to Nashville. "When Gary Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome moved to Nashville, we started writing together," says Jay. "We caught up on lost time. We sang every Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome chance we got. We just hit it hard. We'd stay up endless nights writing music and playing together."

Jay and Joe Don met when they got Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome jobs last year in Chely Wright's band. Meanwhile, the cousins were also gigging in Nashville's Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome infamous Printers Alley with a part time guitarist. When their guitarist couldn't make it to a show one weekend, Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome Jay invited Joe Don to sit in with them. None of them expected the magic that would make Joe Don a permanent member of the band. "That night really worked out special," Joe Don recalls.

Jay knew that I sing high Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome and he had been taking the high part above Gary the whole time they had been singing together. That night, he decided to take the low fifth." Jay pipes in, "I was happy to take the low fifth. I heard Joe Don open his Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome mouth and I was like, "thank you, Jesus!" And, the first night that we sang together, we stopped and looked at each other on-stage, like -- that was kind of cool, let's do that again! It really, really was magical. We Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome honestly didn't have to work hard at it. It was so natural and so much fun."

The trio went into the studio and recorded some rough demos with Bright and Williams that were played for producer Dann Huff. Even though Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome Huff was not involved with the project, he was so excited by Rascal Flatts' powerful vocal Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome harmonies and stellar musicianship that he called Lyric Street Records' Senior VP of AandR, Doug Howard, and said, "You have to hear this group." Four days later Lyric Street had completed demos in their Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome hands and a new group to sign.

It is impossible to pinpoint just Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome one element that makes Rascal Flatts' music so special. "We just really jelled because of our influences; Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome pop, RandB, country, gospel, bluegrass roots," says Joe Don. "We've always liked to try to be different, even if we were just playing at some little dive," Jay explains. "When someone listens to Rascal Flatts, they're Rascal Flatts tickets Calgary Pengrowth Saddledome going to hear a lot of harmony, a lot of funkiness because we love to groove.

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