Even though they have become one of country music's most successful and popular acts, Rascal Flatts admits there was a time when they were pretty sure they were going to end up as one-hit wonders.
"Prayin' for Daylight" was . . . actually on hold for somebody else," singer Gary LeVox reveals in a recent interview with Dan Rather on The Big Interview. "And our producers at that time said, 'Hey, you know what . . . let's just take this song and work with it, see what we can do.'"
Jay DeMarcus admits that it was the success of that single, which peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, that made them nervous.
" . . . It was more a fear thing because we knew we had to follow ["Prayin' for Daylight"] up," he explains. "The first one was very, very lucky out of the box — to have a song that did that well and broke through for us. We were at the point to where we were really starting to go, 'We really need a hit here because "Praying for Daylight" was smoking, and the last two have sort of stumbled along and stuttered a little bit."
DeMarcus added that the follow-up hit they were waiting for came in the form of "I'm Moving On."
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