How They Remember You

“We were just trying to create some new music while we were all hunkered down in our homes to have something for everybody to listen to,” says Jay DeMarcus of the How They Remember You EP, which he completed in a few months’ time with his Rascal Flatts bandmates, Joe Don Rooney and Gary LeVox. With the veteran country-pop trio’s planned farewell tour postponed due to the pandemic, the members instead culled through their stockpile of unfinished tracks and chose a stylistically varied sampling to polish to completion. Bassist-singer DeMarcus, who had a big hand in the arranging and production, says his sole guiding principle was “What can we do to still be uniquely Flatts, but sonically give people something they may not expect to hear? That's part of the fun for me, after 20 years of making records with the Flatts. I mean, we've pretty much done everything there is to do from a sonic standpoint.” Here DeMarcus tells the stories behind each of the seven songs on the record. How They Remember You “We thought we were going to be on a farewell tour, and we thought that song was a perfect message, but things started to shift and that took on a whole new meaning as well. When the pandemic hit and we began to have so many friends and family affected by COVID-19, and so many friends that have lost their lives due to that, it took on a whole new meaning: How do you want to be remembered when you're no longer here? What do you want your friends and your family to say about the kind of person you were when you leave this world? I think it's just a great question right now for all of us to consider and to ask ourselves as we face probably one of the most horrible things that any of us will ever live through in our lifetime.” Feel It in the Morning “I'm constantly, as a person who loves record production, experimenting with different ways to make music. As the years have gone on and I’ve become more adept at programming and arranging myself, I like to take the song, sit in the