McKnight Turns ‘Ten’ With Scott, Rascal Flatts

R&B crooner Brian McKnight will release his tenth album next week, appropriately dubbed 'Ten.' The effort finds the silky-voiced McKnight producing "90 percent" of the album himself, and teaming with neo-soul chanteuse Jill Scott and country group Rascal Flatts.

McKnight came away from working with Scott very impressed. "The great thing about Jill was she hadn't heard the song, came in, 40 minutes later she was done," he says. "It's just unheard of for this business that somebody still has that kind of talent."

With Rascal Flatts, he already knew what they were capable of. "These are my friends, and we talked about doing something together," McKnight says. "[I] sent them the song and they loved it. Tthey did their thing, sent it back to me and the rest is history."

While this is McKnight's tenth album, it marks his first for Warner Bros., which he says gives him a sense of starting over. "It does [feel like a new beginning]," he says. "But that's a good thing."