The ACM Awards are supposed to honor artists who have worked hard and had success throughout the year, a benchmark of their career accomplishments. While the Academy of Country Music gets it right a lot, they have missed the mark more than once, which could explain how neither Lee Brice nor Blake Shelton were nominated this year. Keep reading…
2021 was full of plenty of newsworthy stories. As the country cautiously emerged from the restrictions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, we did our best to focus on positive, uplifting stories, which illustrated the good in the music-makers, the city, the celebrities and the world. Our Top 10 stories of the year included a reality TV talent…
Jason Crabb is not only close friends with Jay DeMarcus, but business colleagues as well. Crabb is currently signed to DeMarcus’ Red Street Records, where he has gotten an up-close look at how the former Rascal Flatts singer conducts business, making Crabb an even bigger fan of DeMarcus, in every way. “Jay is one of the classiest guys…
Gary LeVox‘s current single, “Working on Sunday,” could have been a Rascal Flatts hit instead. Written by LeVox, along with Wendell Mobley, Tony Martin and Cledus T. Judd, LeVox wrote it more than five years ago, long before he — or anyone else — could have predicted the surprising and sudden end of the award-winning trio. But even then,…
Rascal Flatts’ Gavy LeVox is opening up about the sudden demise of the award-winning trio. The group, which also includes Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus, announced in early 2020 that they were heading out on their farewell Life Is a Highway Tour — a tour that never happened because of the pandemic — and then focusing on solo…
Ten years ago, on October 8, 2011, Rascal Flatts became official members of the Grand Ole Opry. The trio, made up of Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney, were officially inducted by Little Jimmy Dickens, 11 years after they made their Grand Ole Opry debut. The Flatts were inducted as part of the Grand Ole Opry’s 86th…
It’s a story all of the singers can almost laugh about now, but it wasn’t funny at the time. Darius Rucker recently shared about an experience he had with Rascal Flatts, while he was opening for the trio on their American Living Unstoppable Tour in 2009. The country music stars were in Toronto, and had an unexpected encounter with…
Gary LeVox just released his first solo project, One on One, after 20 years with Rascal Flatts. The five-track EP kicked off an entirely new musical chapter for the 50-year-old, one that he is ready to embrace. “It was it was exciting and it was fun and it was fresh because I was using new players and new producers…
Rascal Flatts had to cancel their farewell Life Is a Highway Tour last year, because of the pandemic, and unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like the tour will happen anytime soon. “We really don’t,” Jay DeMarcus tells WKKG, when asked if he had any idea when they would reschedule the tour. “There’s no timeline for immediately getting back out there…
The 2021 ACM Awards Honors winners have been announced, with Loretta Lynn, Dan + Shay, Lady A, Rascal Flatts and more among the recipients. The ACM Awards Honors ceremony will be held on Wednesday, August 25, at the Ryman Auditorium. Lynn is the recipient of the ACM Poet’s Award, along with songwriters Gretchen Peters and Curly Putnam, with Putnam…
