Me and My Gang

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Released April 4, 2006 Length 51:31 Artist Rascal Flatts Producer Dann Huff		Recorded 2005 Label Lyric Street Release date 4 April 2006

Me and My Gang (2006) Still Feels Good (2007) Genres Country music, Country pop Nominations Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year Similar Rascal Flatts albums, Country music albums

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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.

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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

"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.