{"id":16662,"date":"2021-10-12T08:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T12:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=16662"},"modified":"2021-10-12T05:24:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T09:24:33","slug":"rascal-flatts-ended-because-joe-don-rooney-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/10\/rascal-flatts-ended-because-joe-don-rooney-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rascal Flatts Ended Because Joe Don Rooney Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Rascal Flatts lead singer Gary LeVox is now saying the catalyst for the trio&#8217;s demise was guitar player Joe Don Rooney quitting the band.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/gary-levox-gets-candid-rascal-flatts-breakup-no-closure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">He told People.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never been OK with the way that it ended. I was never OK with . . . I wasn&#8217;t happy that Joe Don quit. It kind of came out of nowhere. It was like, &#8216;Let me try to wrap my head around this.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2020, Rascal Flatts announced they were going their separate ways and would say goodbye to fans on their Farewell Tour last year, which commemorated 20 years together as a trio, but the tour was cancelled due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I hate the way that it ended. I hate that we didn&#8217;t get to do this farewell tour. I can&#8217;t stand the fact that it just feels there&#8217;s no closure with something that we&#8217;ve been so blessed with. That will always be in my heart.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said he has not spoken to Joe Don since the musician was arrested for DUI in September.<\/p>\n<p>Gary has launched his solo career as a Christian artist and is planning his first solo tour in 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LAefGebS9To\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Rascal Flatts lead singer Gary LeVox is now saying the catalyst for the trio&#8217;s demise was guitar player Joe Don Rooney quitting the band.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":16005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[628,1040,82],"class_list":["post-16662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-gary-levox","tag-joe-don-rooney","tag-rascal-flatts"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 00:26:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/10\/rascal-flatts-ended-because-joe-don-rooney-quit\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}