Feels Like Today

Feels Like Today
Feels Like Today
Studio album by Rascal Flatts
Released	September 28, 2004
Genre	Country
Length	42:56
Label	Lyric Street
Producer	Mark Bright; Rascal Flatts; Marty Williams
Rascal Flatts chronology
Singles from Feels Like Today
	"Feels Like Today"; Released: June 21, 2004; "Bless the Broken Road"; Released: November 1, 2004; "Fast Cars and Freedom"; Released: March 21, 2005; "Skin (Sarabeth)"; Released: August 15, 2005;

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Allmusic	^[1]

Feels Like Today is the third studio album by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released on September 28, 2004, via Lyric Street Records. The album has sold 5.274 million copies in the United States as of July 2014,^[2] and it has been certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA. The album produced its title track as a single along with "Bless the Broken Road", "Fast Cars and Freedom", and "Skin (Sarabeth)". "Bless the Broken Road" was initially recorded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and has also been recorded by Marcus Hummon, Melodie Crittenden (whose version was a number 42 country single in 1997), and Geoff Moore before the release of Rascal Flatts' version. It would later be a Top 5 Christian hit for Selah as well. "When the Sand Runs Out" was later recorded by Marty Raybon on his 2006 album of the same name.

"Skin (Sarabeth)", initially a hidden track, received enough airplay to enter Top 40 on the country charts in 2005, leading to its release as a single. Upon its release to radio, "Skin (Sarabeth)" was officially added to the track list. "Here's to You" also charted from unsolicited airplay, and was made into a music video.

This was the band's last album to be produced by Mark Bright.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Where You Are"	Catt Gravitt, James LeBlanc	3:53
2.	"Bless the Broken Road"	Jeff Hanna, Bobby Boyd, Marcus Hummon	3:46
3.	"Then I Did"	Steve Robson, Jeffrey Steele	3:12
4.	"Feels Like Today"	Robson, Wayne Hector	3:26
5.	"Fast Cars and Freedom"	Gary LeVox, Neil Thrasher, Wendell Mobley	4:24
6.	"When the Sand Runs Out"	Brad Crisler, LeBlanc	3:46
7.	"Here's to You"	Jay DeMarcus, Thrasher, Mobley	3:33
8.	"The Day Before You" (Matthew West cover)	Matthew West	4:06
9.	"Break Away"	Joe Don Rooney, Randy Cantor, Dennis Matkosky	3:12
10.	"Holes"	Gregory Becker, John Paul White	4:18
11.	"Oklahoma-Texas Line"	DeMarcus, LeVox, Rooney	2:56
12.	"Skin (Sarabeth)" (hidden track)	Doug Johnson, Joe Henry	4:18
Total length:			42:56

Personnel

Rascal Flatts

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

Additional musicians

Tim Akers – keyboards, synthesizers, accordion
Gordon Mote – acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ
Steve Nathan – acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ
Larry Beaird – acoustic guitar
Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Lonnie Wilson – drums
Jonathan Yudkin – banjo, fiddle, mandolin, octofone, strings on "Feels Like Today" and "Skin (Sarabeth)"

Production

Doug Howard – A&R
Rascal Flatts – producers
Mark Bright – producer
Marty Williams – producer, engineer, mixing
Bart Morris – engineer, assistant engineer, mix assistant, digital editing
Tom Baker – mastering
Gene Dries – production coordinator
Greg McCarn – creative director
Glenn Sweitzer – art direction, design
Chapman Baehler – photography
Jennifer Kemp – wardrobe
Rhonda Parman – hair stylist, make-up

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Chart (2004)	Peak position
US Billboard 200^[3]	1
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[4]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2004)	Position
US Billboard 200^[5]	145
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[6]	22

Chart (2005)	Position
US Billboard 200^[7]	10
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[8]	2
Worldwide Albums (IFPI)^[9]	29

Chart (2006)	Position
US Billboard 200^[10]	20
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)^[11]	6

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	US	US Pop	US AC
2004	"Feels Like Today"	9	56	—	—
2004	"Bless the Broken Road"	1	29	40	20
2005	"Fast Cars and Freedom"	1	38	70	—
2005	"Skin (Sarabeth)"	2	42	74	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart