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in It's almost four o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon Nashville, F on the set of Rascal Flatts' music video shoot for their hit song "Changed," when guitarist/vocalist Joe Don Rooney leans in and asks, "Do you want a snack?" Coming from one of the members of country music's titanic group, my mouth hangs open, not from hunger, but from shock. Aren't people paid to be asking him questions like this? Rooney, not content to play the part of the pampered and full-of-attitude rock star, would rather know what he might be able to get me instead. After all, there are about 150 people milling around, their latest album, Changed), spending the month of including the craft service man who comes by with a April in Los Angeles recording a new album (their red tray offering ham and cheese or tuna sandwiches ninth) before heading over to Europe in July for anwithin the dim depths of Citation Studios—dim be- other tour. No wonder these guys needed their own cause it's being lit pretty much by the bare lightbulbs afternoon pick-me-up in the form of some giant cofhanging down for atmosphere for the video, swaying fees, which LeVox offers me the frst sip of, a cordial inside the frame of the glowing monitor now through introduction if there ever was one. which you'll see Rooney lead singer Gary LeVox, and bass player and vocalist Jay DeMarcus. They FA M I LY A F FA I R take turns singing over their vocal tracks, take after take. It's just part of the job now, and even though they've been here since the very early hours of the CITATION STUDIOS, WHERE THEY ARE FILMING, IS LESS morning, they don't show signs of being anything than eight miles away from Printers Alley in Nashother than maybe a little punch-drunk as the time ville, but it might as well be worlds removed from stretches on and on… where these three fellows were just another bar "Maybe we should band at the Fiddle and fnish this up," LeVox Steel Guitar Bar (the jokes as the Tennes"Cheers bar of Nashsee day turns to night. ville," as it proudly pro"We've just got to go claims): Gary and Jay, to, you know, Australia cousins from Columon Saturday…." It'll bus, Ohio, and Joe Don be their frst time playfrom Picher, Oklaing the continent, and homa. The Fiddle and they're excited, if a tad Steel is located in the road weary, squeezing famous Printers Alley, in this all-day video an area of downtown shoot back in Nashville that's just a little less on the heels of tourscuffed by the boots ing since last June (for of tourists and was 1. In 2011, Rascal Flatts was honored by Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, which named its Pediatric Surgery Center the "Rascal Flatts Surgery Center." 46 Tempus-Magazine.com . Summer 2013