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Story Behind the Song: Rascal Flatts Fast Cars and Freedom
Believe it or not, Fast Cars and Freedom didn t come about quickly.
At first, all Wendell Mobley and Neil Thrasher had was a guitar lick one that was a clear winner, but kept being put on the backburner as they worked on other tunes.
But after they reteamed with Rascal Flatts frontman Gary LeVox, the song sped to life. You don t look a day over fast cars and freedom, LeVox sang on the 2005 hit. That sunset river bank, first time feeling.
Thrasher and Mobley told the Story Behind the Song to Bart Herbison of Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Alan Murphy, of The Mighty High and Dry. Right now, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, with no end in sight, Alan Murphy imagines the plight of songwriters as a familiar philosophical question: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The falling tree, and the songwriters, are making vibrations in the air. It’s your ear that converts those vibrations into sound. And if there’s no one on the receiving end, did the sound even exist? “I know it feels good to write a song,” Murphy says. “I know it feels good to sing and play. I know it feels good to perform, and I love to record. Getting music out, getting recordings out to people, is interesting as an independent artist. It’s interesting.”