Anyone who thought that ’80s-style power ballads had long gone away with Kurt Cobain’s green sweater and Crystal Pepsi is dead wrong. They are kept alive, nightly, by Columbus, Ohio’s Rascal Flatts.

Aftermath had doubts about Rascal Flatts, whose 2004 hit "God Bless the Broken Road" was the only song we were really familiar with before Wednesday night's performance at the Houston Livestock Show ...