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Me and My Gang is the fourth studio album by the American country music group Rascal Flatts, released on April 4, 2006 by Lyric Street Records. The album became the highest US debut of 2006, with 721,747 units[3] and went double platinum in the first month of release.[4][5] The album spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard 200 chart. It was the best selling album (not counting 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[6] and was certified 5× Platinum.[4] This is the group's first album to be produced by Dann Huff.

Me and My Gang
Studio album by Rascal Flatts
Released	April 4, 2006
Recorded	2005
Genre	Country
Length	51:31
Label	Lyric Street
Producer	Dann Huff Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts chronology
Feels Like Today (2004) Me and My Gang (2006) Still Feels Good (2007)
Singles from Me and My Gang
"What Hurts the Most" Released: January 9, 2006 "Me and My Gang" Released: April 17, 2006 "Life Is a Highway" Released: June 6, 2006 "My Wish" Released: August 28, 2006 "Stand" Released: January 22, 2007

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	C[2]

The singles released from this album included "What Hurts the Most", which peaked at number one on both 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 two number one hits with "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" even though it was never released as a single.

Track listing

Personnel

As listed in liner notes.[7]

Rascal Flatts

• Jay DeMarcus – bass guitar, backing vocals
• Gary LeVox – lead vocals
• Joe Don Rooney – lead guitars, backing vocals

Additional musicians

• Tim Akers – keyboards (1, 2, 6, 9, 12), accordion (12)
• Charlie Judge – keyboards (1, 2, 4, 6-13)
• Howard Duck – keyboards (3)
• Gordon Mote – acoustic piano (4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12), keyboards (5)
• Tom Bukovac – rhythm guitars (1, 4-8, 10-13)
• Dann Huff – rhythm guitars (1, 2, 4-13)
• Jonathan Trebing – rhythm guitars (3)
• Jonathan Yudkin – fiddle (1, 2, 7, 10), mandolin (1, 5, 6, 9, 12), banjo (2, 5, 10)
• Darrell Scott – mandolin (9)
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar (2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12)
• Travis Toy – steel guitar (3)
• Bruce Bouton – steel guitar (7, 11, 12)
• Russ Pahl – steel guitar (8, 13)
• John Jeannsome – fiddle (3)
• Chris McHugh – drums (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13)
• Jim Riley – drums (3)
• Lonnie Wilson – drums (7, 11)
• Eric Darken – percussion (1, 10, 12)

String section on "My Wish" and "Words I Couldn't Say"

• David Campbell – arrangements and conductor
• Larry Corbett, Suzie Katayama and Daniel Smith – cello
• Charlie Bisharat, Roberto Cani, Mario DeLeon, Armen Garabedian, Peter Kent, Alyssa Park, Tereza Stanislav, Josefina Vergara and John Wittenberg – violin

"To Make Her Love Me"

• Charlie Judge – arrangements and conductor
• Carole Rabinowitz – cello
• Gary Vanosdale and Kristin Wilkinson – viola
• David Davidson, Conni Ellisor, Carl Gorodetzky and Pamela Sixfin – violin

Production

• Dann Huff – producer
• Rascal Flatts – producers
• Jeff Balding – recording
• Mark Hagen – recording
• Justin Niebank – recording, mixing
• Todd Tidwell – recording, recording assistant
• Drew Bollman – recording assistant, mix assistant
• Greg Lawrence – recording assistant
• David Robinson – recording assistant
• Christopher Rowe – digital editing
• Adam Ayan – mastering
• Sherri Halford – art direction, design
• Greg McCarn – art direction, design
• Glenn Sweitzer – art direction, design
• Chapman Baehler – photography

Charts

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	US Pop	US AC	CAN
2006	"What Hurts the Most"	1	6	11	1	—
	"Me and My Gang"	6	50	71	—	—
	"Life Is a Highway"	18	7	9	—	—
	"My Wish"	1	28	49	13	—
2007	"Stand"	1	46	80	—	54
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Certifications

Region	Certification
Canada (Music Canada)[16]	Platinum
United States (RIAA)[17]	5× Platinum

References

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«Me and My Gang» — четвёртый студийный альбом американской кантри-группы Rascal Flatts, выпущенный 25 сентября 2006 года на лейбле Lyric Street Records. Продюсером диска стал Данн Хафф. Диск сразу возглавил основной американский хит-парад Billboard 200 (во 2-й раз подряд в карьере вслед за Feels Like Today) и кантри-чарт США (в 3-й раз в карьере группы)[3], а также интернет-чарт Top Internet Albums[1]. В итоге альбом получил 5-кр. платиновый статус RIAA[4].

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