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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Lyric Street
Salesrank: 546
Released: September 25, 2007 |
| Our Price: $8.00 |
| Used Price: $5.17 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Still Feels Good Track Listing:
1. Take Me There
2. Here
3. Bob That Head
4. Help Me Remember
5. Still Feels Good
6. Winner at a Losing Game
7. No Reins
8. Every Day
9. Secret Smile
10. Better Now
11. She Goes All the Way
12. How Strong Are You Now
13. It's Not Supposed To Go Like That
Editorial Review:
It all begins when the lights go down. For Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus, it has been that way since they were playing for a handful of people in a club in Nashville's Printers Alley. These days, of course, they play for thousands of screaming fans a night, drawn by state-of-the-art production and sound, and by spectacular vocal harmonies in service to an ever-expanding catalogue of hits. In between, it was the magic of those performances that catapulted Rascal Flatts into the front ranks of entertainers in all genres.
By any measure, Rascal Flatts is in elite territory. They are the reigning 2006 CMA, ACM and CMT Vocal Group of the Year. In 2005 they added Billboard and R&R Artist of the Year trophies as well. The trio also picked up its first three Grammy nominations in 2005, and their "Bless The Broken Road" received the Grammy for Country Song of the Year. Coming off the biggest selling artist album of 2006, Rascal Flatts is geared up for their brand new album coming on September 25.
Description of Still Feels Good:
Rascal Flatts has always been an anomaly in country music. Signed to the Disney label Lyric Street, they arrived in 2000 as essentially a trio (winning lead vocalist Gary LeVox fronted pin-up boy Joe Don Rooney on electric guitar and Jay DeMarcus on bass) that traveled and recorded with additional musicians to make up a full band. Despite their workingman backgrounds, their repertoire was so pop-oriented that hardly anyone could really call them country, and the group bristled at being dubbed Nashville's Boy Band. Yet while they were primarily marketed to teens (the young set screams their lungs out in concert), a lot of adults found their bouncy, bubbly radio tunes irresistible. And in 2006, when they released their fourth album, the quadruple-platinum Me and My Gang, they sold more than 700,000 records the first week, ending up as the best-selling artists of the year across all genres. Now comes the follow-up, and with the group sharing production credit with hit-meister Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Faith Hill), they turned out an extremely well-built album of heavily layered, grown-up pop. (The one country-ish song, "Bob that Head," about the joys of Friday night cruising in a tricked-out truck, almost amounts to a rap.) DeMarcus has said that the band took its time making the record, and it shows--everything about it telegraphs a growing maturity. Not only do Rooney and DeMarcus play on every cut (which they didn't do until Me and My Gang), but the trio has a hand in writing much of the material that doesn't come from the pens of Nashville's most reliable songsmiths (Jeffrey Steele, Neil Thrasher, Steve Robson, Hillary Lindsey, and headliner Kenny Chesney on "Take Me There"). It all goes down quite smoothly, from the sexy title track to the pain ballad "Better Now," to the (too-obvious) social commentary of "It's Not Supposed to Go Like That." As a measure of that, even actor/singer Jamie Foxx's guest appearance on the silky "She Goes All the Way" blends seamlessly with the rest of the material, much of it crafted to manipulate the emotions with power choruses, stinging electric guitar solos, and throbbing drums. But unlike the Rascals' other albums, there aren't many story songs here. And though LeVox's hangdog tenor hammers home the devastating ache of failed relationships ("Help Me Remember"), there's no standout tune like "What Hurts the Most," and not a lot of this sticks in your head after it's gone. Yes, as the title promises, it "Still Feels Good," but only for a little while. -–Alanna Nash
Still Feels Good Reviews:
A little disappointed 
2008-09-18 - Only about 2 songs I really enjoyed. I am relatively new in the Country Western scene. Got tired of rock. Most of Rascals songs reminded me of rock.
Bob That Head ruins a good album 
2008-08-31 - As with their previous work, Rascal Flatts' "Still Feels Good" album is filled with great country songs, such as "Winner At a Losing Game," "Every Day," "Take Me There" and the title track. Unfortunately, the album is ruined by what is probably the worst song in history. "Bob That Head" is utterly unlistenable. It is probably one of 4 songs--in any genre--that make me scream and run for the radio dial to change stations when it comes on. It's stupid, pointless, and gross if you choose to think about an alternate meaning of it (I won't put it into words here--if you get what I mean you will understand). How disappointing to see them not only record such garbage, but to have to have it as a radio single,and with country radio these days the Rascals could read the dictionary and have a top 10 hit with it, meaning we are stuck hearing this trash over and over. Apart from the song itself, I find the vocal delivery of it shrill and irritating. Such a waste of a talented vocal group. I hope they will mature on their next album and avoid recording such mediocre garbage, as they are capable of so much more.
timelyty 
2008-08-15 - I am new to country music, and I love this cd. did I mention that I am
African- American??!!
Very good cd 
2008-05-22 - As always Rascal Flats has made a cd I love to listen to over and over again!
Love it!
2008-05-21 - This album has some more bouncy, rockin tracks than the other albums. I love it!
