Me and My Gang is the fourth studio album from the American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released on April 4, 2006. The album became the highest US debut of 2006, with 721,747 units and went double platinum in the first month of release. The album logged three weeks at #1 on Billboard 200. It was the second-best selling album (behind High School Musical) and the best selling country album of 2006. It has sold 4.918 million copies in the United States as of the chart dated March 24, 2012 and was certified 5× Platinum. This is the group's first album to be produced by Dann Huff.
On April 25, 2007 Rascal Flatts performed "My Wish" on American Idol as part of the special, Idol Gives Back.
The singles released from this album included "What Hurts the Most", which was a Number One hit on the Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. This was followed by the title track (which reached a peak of number 6), and then the Number One hits "My Wish" and "Stand". Later presses of the album also included a cover of Tom Cochrane's "Life Is a Highway" (a cover previously included in the soundtrack to the 2006 film Cars) as a bonus track. This cover, though not released to country radio, charted at number 18 on the country charts, overlapping with "My Wish". A video was made for "He Ain't the Leavin' Kind" though it was never released as a single.
Video Me and My Gang
Track listing
Maps Me and My Gang
Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Rascal Flatts
- Jay DeMarcus - bass guitar, background vocals
- Gary LeVox - lead vocals
- Joe Don Rooney - lead guitar, background vocals
Additional musicians
- Tim Akers - keyboards, accordion
- Bruce Bouton - steel guitar
- Tom Bukovac - rhythm guitar
- Eric Darken - percussion
- Howard Duck - keyboards
- Paul Franklin - steel guitar
- Dann Huff - rhythm guitar
- John Jeannsome - fiddle
- Chuarlie Judge - keyboards
- Chris McHugh - drums
- Gordon Mote - piano, keyboards
- Russ Pahl - steel guitar
- Jim Riley - drums
- Darrell Scott - mandolin
- Travis Toy - steel guitar
- Jonathan Trebing - rhythm guitar
- Lonnie Wilson - drums
- Jonathan Yudkin - fiddle, mandolin, banjo
String section
"My Wish" and "Words I Couldn't Say"
- Charlie Bisharat, Roberto Cani, Mario deLeon, Armen Garabedian, Peter Kent, Alyssa Park, Tereza Stanislav, Josefina Vergara, John Wittenberg - violins
- Suzie Katayama, Larry Corbett, Daniel Smith - cellos
"To Make Her Love Me"
- Carl Gorodetzky, Pam Sixfin, Conni Ellisor, Dave Davidson - violins
- Kris Wilkinson, Gary Vanosdale - violas
- Carole Rabinowitz - cello
Strings on "My Wish" and "Words I Couldn't Say" arranged and conducted by David Campbell. Strings on "To Make Her Love Me" arranged and conducted by Charlie Judge.
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
References
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