{"id":1318394,"date":"2020-02-24T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1818069"},"modified":"2020-02-24T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:46:23","slug":"rascal-flatts-insist-that-farewell-is-not-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/rascal-flatts-insist-that-farewell-is-not-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"Rascal Flatts Insist That Farewell Is Not Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span>
\n27m ago<\/span>
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It literally never gets old. <\/p>\n

When country stars talk about being in their feels the first time they hear themselves on the radio, you wonder if they are kind of over it by the 8,000th time they hear themselves. That is not the case for Rascal Flatts. It still feels like the first time, exactly 20 years ago when they heard \u201cPrayin\u2019 for Daylight<\/a>\u201d on the radio in 2000. <\/p>\n

During this year\u2019s Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, the trio sat down to talk about their firsts and their farewells and everything in between. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still special for me,\u201d Jay DeMarcus said. \u201cIt\u2019s a feeling for me that never goes away and I still go, \u2019Wow, it\u2019s neat that some random place in some random city is playing music that we all started playing so many years ago down in Printer\u2019s Alley, just for fun.\u2019 And it\u2019s turned into this.\u201d<\/p>\n

But then he had to bring up the elephant in the room. Are they in a fight?<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething that I think merits mentioning is that a lot of people have asked us since we\u2019ve made this announcement is if something had happened, did we have a falling out, have we fought with each other, have we gotten to the point where we can\u2019t get along. That\u2019s really not the case,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve just gotten to this point in the road where it\u2019s just forking and we\u2019re entering into new seasons of our lives. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we haven\u2019t signed a pact to say we\u2019re never going to work together ever again. This isn\u2019t a ploy to get your money to come out and see this tour so that we can turn around next year. There are no immediate plans to do any more Rascal Flatts show past October 30th.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a decision that they did not reach lightly, DeMarcus said, and he was emphatic about that. \u201cThis is a very tough decision. It\u2019s going to be a very sad and bittersweet year. But it is something we feel like is the best for the three of us at this point in our lives right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the reason we get on the bus every night,\u201d he added, \u201cand go miles and miles away from our families, and spend days and nights away from our homes, is because of the impact that you tell us that our music is having on your lives. That\u2019s really what we want to focus on over the next nine months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s 2020 Farewell tour isn\u2019t so much a goodbye, though. DeMarcus looks at it as more of a celebration of the 20 amazing years they\u2019ve had with their fans. \u201cTwenty years is a long time in any business, and we\u2019ve never had the opportunity to take a deep breath, and go, \u2019You know what, we\u2019ve really done some remarkable things in a 20-year career.’\u201d<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s Joe Don Rooney shared his own emotions over the farewellish tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been hitting the road for a lot of years. It\u2019s been so special, we can\u2019t wait to get out there and love all over the fans and celebrate what you all have given us,\u201d Rooney said. \u201cIt\u2019s just incredible that 20 years goes by that quick. We know we\u2019ve been blessed, we\u2019re very thankful, and just humbled by this incredible success that we\u2019ve been given.\u201d<\/p>\n

See the full list of final tour dates here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n
Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville. <\/div>\n

@alisonbonaguro<\/a> <\/div>\n

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