Rascal Flatts has a brand new single out, called, "Banjo,"  the first single off the band’s forthcoming album due out in April.    Jay DeMarcus explains on the band's website, the song, “is a sentiment about getting away from it all, getting away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and sort of breaking out and finding a spot way out in the country and drivin' and drivin' and drivin' until you go so far you start to hear a banjo.”   Joe Don Rooney feels like the song taps into a bit of a different sound for the band but he loves it and he thinks the fans will too because “it's got that raw countriness to it that's just so fun.” And he also thinks once Rascal Flatts starts playing it live the fans will latch onto it. “I think everybody by the first chorus will get it, they'll be singing along to it and it's just fun stuff."   Read all about it here.   "Banjo” officially hits radio January 17th, but we have a sneak listen now!     Listen to it here.

RF is back on tour this week, kicking off Thaw Out 2012, in Charleston, West Virginia with Sara Evans and Hunter Hayes.   

On another note, RF is playing a very important role in a local woman's life who is battling cancer.   Yesterday, thanks to all of you, we reached over 10,000 "likes" on Facebook.  For our 10,000th fan, we said we would play a request for them.   Mary L. Ohio requested Rascal Flatt's "I Won't Let Go" for her friend Jennifer Cline Linnabary.   You can give your support by "friending" the woman known as "Ziggy" here.