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Album Review | COUNTRY

Rascal Flatts, ‘Changed’

  April 03, 2012

f you’ve got more than a passing familiarity with contemporary country music, you’ve heard “Banjo’’ or its ilk countless times: the boilerplate banjo for tradition, the repurposed metal chords for toughness, the lyrics that play like a panderin’ checklist of country livin’. But as evidenced by the song’s current berth towards the top of the country charts, there’s a reason people keep dipping back into the formula, and with “Changed,’’ Rascal Flatts show little inclination to mess with success.

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