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"Me and My Gang"
Song

"Me and My Gang" is the title of a country music song written by Jeffrey Steele, Jon Stone and Tony Mullins. It was recorded by country pop group Rascal Flatts on their 2006 album of the same name, and released in early 2006 as the second single from the album. The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard country singles charts that year.

A new version of the song with altered lyrics was recorded in 2009 and will be the opening theme song for Big Ten Network college FB. [[1]]. This song is used in the Rock Band Country Track Pack, and has been confirmed as upcoming downloadable content for the Rock Band series

Content

"Me and My Gang" is an up-tempo with electric guitar accompaniment, including a talk box in the intro. In it, the male narrator tells of traveling across the country with his gang.

It's a brother and a sister kind of thing.
Raise up your hands if you all wanna hang
With me and my gang.
We live to ride; we ride to live.
Me and my gang!!
Jump on that train; grab hold of them reins.
We gonna rock this thang, cock this thang.
Me and my gang, yea, me and my gang.

Tony Mullins, one of the song's writers, said that he came up with the song's main riff while working on another song. Jeffrey Steele then heard the riff and decided that it seemed to fit a title, "Me and My Gang", that he had in his mind at the time.[1] While working on recording the song, Rascal Flatts' lead singer Gary LeVox called Mullins and asked if one line in the song could be changed. This line then became "Dude named Elrod, jammin' on an iPod", which Mullins says was the first line that came to him.[1]

Critical reception

Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine, in reviewing the album, said that the song seemed like a simplification of Big & Rich's "swagger" and featured similar talk-box riffs to Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer".[2] The 8-note closing guitar riff, which is also heard in the middle of the song, is taken from "Hey Bulldog" by The Beatles.

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 50
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 71
Canadian Radio & Records Country Singles 12

References

  1. ^ a b "Tony Mullins Reveals the Story Behind "Me And My Gang"". Great American Country. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Me and My Gang review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-03-21.
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