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Me and My Gang
Rascal Flatts
Retail Price (not our price): $18.98
Release Date: 2006-11-17
Manufacturer: Lyric Street
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
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. --Alanna Nash

2) Album Description
The debut single, "What Hurts The Most" is the fastest moving single in Rascal Flatts history. Me And My Gang is an enhanced cd that gives fans exclusive Rascal Flatts footage. Produced by Dann Huff and Rascal Flatts.

3) Album Description
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' and 'Bless The Broken Road' have taken them repeatedly to the top of the charts. They have sold over eight-million records, with their third CD, Feels Like Today, charging to platinum in ONE week and hope to do the same with Me & My Gang. Me And My Gang will be an enhanced CD that will give consumers exclusive Rascal Flatts footage Over 250,000 fans in the online street team 'Flatt Dog Pound'.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) What would you expect?   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
My CD arrived quickly, excellent condition,and great music. What else would anyone expect from Rascal Flatts???

2) Rascal Flatts Me&&My Gang   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I got this cd 4 my momma awhile ago and listened to it last nite.. I fell in love all over aogain with Rascal flatts, My favorite song is "He Ain't the leavin' kind." I would deff tell everyone to get it, even if u dont like country music... Its one hell of a cd.... So if u dont have it..u need to..it wont let u down...

3) Sad days   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
Consider this review a eulogy for country music. The GAYng and their success proves it beyond the shadow of a doubt. Nothing country about it. Not even worthy of soft rock. Everyone is entitled to their opinion (and I am CLEARLY the minority here) but I don't even know how to classify this whiny crap. They should team up with Keith Urban on a boo-hoo collaberation of unmanly crap that would sell millions! Sad days...anyone planning country's funeral yet?

4) Poignant and almost a 5   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Gripping with "What Hurts the Most" and makes me cry with "Elsworth".Their remake of "Life is a Highway" is well-done and fun and made my husband's country band sit up and want to do it too.A little too commercial/staged on "Me and My Gang" for our taste but its not a bad song.I'm liking Rascal Flats more and more.

5) cross-over country   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I have never been much into country, but fell in love with one of their hits, and I like the whole cd.