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Rascal Flatts由来自哥伦布的Gary Levox、Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney三名成员组成,是一个乡村音乐风格的乐队,他们以演唱和谐而闻名。

乐队经历

两位表兄弟主唱gary levox、贝司手jay demarcus和好朋友吉它手joe don rooney三个人于1999年成立了乡村音乐三人组合“rascal flatts”,他们的同名首张专辑在发行后的第一周就卖出了11,274张,登上了billboard乡村音乐专辑排行榜的第14名,在billboard专辑排行榜上名列第122。他们吸收了福音、蓝草音乐,pop和r\u0026b的音乐元素,形成了自己紧密和谐的乡村音乐风格。

livox和demarcus两人是在俄亥俄州哥伦布的音乐世家中长大的。他们的母亲是表姐妹,两家都习惯全家人围坐在一起演奏音乐。demarcus的祖父教给他蓝草音乐,并教会他演奏原声吉他班卓琴。他曾在摇滚乐队和乡村乐队中演奏,1972年,他搬到了纳什维尔nashville,开始和基督教歌手迈克尔·杰克逊 english一起工作。

1997年,他说服自己表兄弟gary从西海岸搬到了纳什维尔,这时他已经成为english的合音歌手。他和这位基督教歌手一起演唱了二重唱“love won't leave you out in the rain”,这首歌被收入english1998年的专辑《gospel》中。表兄弟俩经常在纳什维尔的“小提琴与钢棒吉它酒吧fiddle \u0026 steel guitar bar”进行演出。

rooney是在俄克拉何马州的picher长大的,也出身于一个音乐世家,他的家人经常在俄克拉荷马州和阿肯色州各地进行家庭演出。rooney接触过各种音乐风格,19岁时他就开始在俄克拉苛马州grove的grand lake opry(译者注:美国历史最悠久,专门播放乡村音乐与节目的娱乐机构)节目中每周表演一位grand lake opry的明星。在与chely wright乐队的鼓手preston stanfield取得联系以后,他搬到了纳什维尔

1999年当rooney参加wright的乐队时,demarcus当时是乐队的指挥。一天晚上,这对表兄弟的吉它手因事无法参加演出,demarcus就请rooney去顶替。他们唱的第一首歌是shenandoah的“church on cumberland road”,他们感觉彼此的配合是那么的合谐自然,从而三人认定他们必定要在一起合作。demarcus通常是演唱高音部分,但他很高兴将高音部让给rooney那天生自然的高音。这三位歌手认为,是福音音乐教会了他们要互相配合,紧密和谐,并且让他们知道了音乐的精神作用。

他们开始一起写歌,并经常在纳什维尔的printer's alley一起演出,不久就录制了自己的样带,交给各唱片公司。他们帮tim mcgraw一起工作,制作人dann huff(曾为lonestar,faith hill担任过制作)非常喜欢他们的样带,把它交给了迪士尼公司属下的lyric street records唱片公司,这家公司立即和这个三人组签了约。2000年上半年,rascal flatts出现了grand ole opry节目中,他们还进行了为期四个月的巡回演出,推销自己的专辑。在fan fair(国际乡村音乐歌迷聚会)的tower records摊位上,他们的专辑销量第一。他们的首张专辑中包括名列排行榜第五的单曲“prayin' for daylight”。

当rascal flatts于2001年捧回了乡村音乐学院academy of country 音乐的“最佳乐队组合top new vocal duo or group”大奖时,他们的一切付出都得到了回报。2002年,他们又获得了乡村音乐协会country music association的“年度最佳新人奖horizon award”。他们的第二张专辑《melt》登上乡村音乐专辑排行榜榜首,并进入了billboard专辑排行榜前五名。

2000年以来,rascal flatts共卖出了四百多万张专辑,是如今不太景气的市场上的一个亮点。他们的首张同名专辑达到了白金销量,其中有四首单曲进入了排行榜前十行列。他们的第二张专辑《melt》达到了数倍白金销量,至今仍在乡村音乐排行榜高位驰骋。2004年的新专辑《feels like today》,则一举夺取了乡村音乐专辑榜和billboard专辑排行榜双榜冠军,很快达到了白金销量。

专辑《Feels Like Today》中的单曲《Bless The Broken Road》获得2005年度第48届格莱美奖“年度最佳单曲”奖的提名之后,在美国本来就已经颇受欢迎的当代乡村三人组合Rascal Flatts的人气又有了明显的提升。Rascal Flatts的第四张专辑《Me and My Gang》在4月4日发行后第一周内就狂卖了72万2千张,轻松称霸本周的Billboard 200专辑榜和本周的乡村专辑榜。同时,Rascal Flatts的这张专辑还刷新了南方说唱歌手T.I.的新专辑《King》创造的2006年专辑单周最高的销量纪录,超出了约20万张。

Rascal Flatts也在2007年发行专辑Still Feels Good ,反响十分不错,也凭借这张专辑提名第51届格莱美奖最佳乡村乐队。目前最新专辑《unstoppable 》也已经在09年4月7日发行。和很多美国当代乡村组合一样,Rascal Flatts的音乐中并没有传统乡村音乐的感觉,使用的传统乡村乐器也并不是很多,甚至有很多老牌乡村音乐人还批评Rascal Flatts的音乐太过流行化,就连组合成员Jay DeMarcus也笑称Rascal Flatts其实就是当代乡村音乐届的后街男孩(Backstreet Boys)和超级男孩(N Sync)。不过,Rascal Flatts就是以这种略带乡村感觉的情歌路线获得了电台和歌迷的青睐。在本张专辑中,Rascal Flatts仍旧延用了这种成功模式,其中较为出色的歌曲包括:首支打榜单曲《What Hurts The Most》,《I Feel Bad》以及《Yes I Do》等。

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成员介绍

成员有:Gary LeVox,Jay DeMarcus,JoeDon Rooney

Gary LeVox

出生日期:1970年7月10日(10 July 1970)

出生地:美国俄亥俄州首府哥伦布(Columbus,Ohio,USA)

出生名: Gary Wayne 崔韩率 金钟炫

身高: 1.83 m

配偶: Tara Vernon (1999年5月15 ~) 2 个孩子

琐事:

⒈是乐队Rascal Flatts的主唱.

⒉是乐队Rascal Flatts的组合成员Jay Demarcus亲戚(Second cousin)

⒊有2个漂亮的女儿: Brittany Kay Vernon (2000年8月26日出生),Brooklyn Leigh Vernon (2004年3月21日出生)

曾经说过的话:

I loved to SING女团 I sang all the time . . . I still do.(我热爱唱歌。我一直都唱…我会一直唱下去)

JoeDon Rooney

出生日期:1975年9月13日

出生地:美国堪萨斯州(Baxter Springs,Kansas,USA)

昵称:Jodee

身高:1.88 m

配偶:蒂芙尼公司 Fallon (2006年4月23日~)

琐事:

⒈是乐队Rascal Flatts的吉他手/歌手.

⒉他演奏电子的,非电子的和贝斯,他也演奏曼陀铃

⒊他的宠物有一只腊肠犬叫杰克,还有一只牛头獒叫可可

⒋目前驾驶一辆 Chevy SSR.

⒌喜欢打高尔夫。他说如果他不走演艺路线那么他将成为一名业余高尔夫球手

⒍每次离家必须带着他的高尔夫球杆和吉他

⒎在俄克拉何马州的谢尔(Picher,Oklahoma)长大

Jay DeMarcus

出生日期:1971年4月26日

出生地:美国俄亥俄州首府哥伦布(Columbus,Ohio,USA)

出生名:Stanley Wayne DeMarcus 金钟炫

身高: 1.83 m

配偶:Allison Demarcus (2004年5月15日~)

琐事

⒈弹奏钢琴,吉他,鼓,和贝斯

⒉有一半的意大利血统.

⒊是他所在组合Rascal Flatts中的主唱Gary Levox的二表兄

⒋曾经出现在基督教乐队"East to West"中

⒌是乐队Rascal Flatts中的多重乐器演奏家/歌手.

⒍在乐队录制MTV "These Days"中遇到了他现在的妻子.

⒎是整个乐队中的喜剧角色。很有喜剧表演的天分.

主要贡献

音乐专辑

Rascal Flatts

专辑介绍:

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 音乐,Rascal Flatts take the foundation of country songs and layer on R\u0026B-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 音乐 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 迪士尼公司" behind it "really exciting." If you're looking for 音乐 with instantly digestible pop melodies,tight harmonies,and very little grit,Rascal Flatts will delight you and they will most likely delight their 迪士尼公司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

Track from: Feels Like Today

Best Country 表演 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 \u0026 Marcus Hummon,songwriters (Rascal Flatts)

Track from: Feels Like Today

[Lyric Street Records; Publishers: Careers-贝塔斯曼音乐集团 音乐,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 埃米纳姆,50 Cent,U-2侦察机,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--Evil Genius,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 \u0026 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 音乐'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 红色 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

发行时间: 2008年10月28日

地区:美国

语言:蒙特利尔大学

唱片公司:Lyric street/Hollywood

音乐类型:Country

专辑曲目:

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. 500米口径球面射电望远镜 Cars \u0026 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 圣诞节

唱片介绍:

Rascal Flatts由来自哥伦布的Gary Levox、Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney三名成员组成,是一个乡村音乐风格的乐队,他们以演唱和谐而闻名。

美国乡村音乐冠军单曲

"These Days" (2002) (3 weeks)

"Mayberry" (2004)

"Bless the Broken Road" (2005) (5 weeks)

"500米口径球面射电望远镜 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)

巡回演唱会

Jo Dee Messina's Burn Tour — 2000-2001

I Melt Tour — 2002–2003

Brooks \u0026 Dunn's Neon Circus \u0026 Wild West Show – 2003

Here's to You Tour — 2004–2005

Me \u0026 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

获奖记录

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 音乐 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")

中国航运 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")

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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