Gary LeVox says he plans to keep making new music even if his band Rascal Flatts doesn’t.
"I think I’m going to do a solo country album,” the singer said during an appearance on iHeartRadio host Bobby Bones’ podcast Bobbycast.
“Sometimes it's difficult for the three of us to agree on songs to cut and things I really believe that would work out. I feel the responsibility and the calling to continue to keep singing if Flatts does or not.”
LeVox and bandmates Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney were forced to pull the plug on a 20th anniversary farewell tour in May due to COVID-19. The Life Is A Highway Tour took its name from Canadian singer Tom Cochrane’s 1990 hit, which Rascal Flatts covered in 2006.
When the band announced the farewell tour back in January, they called it bittersweet. “There is no sadness here, just new chapters, new journeys, and new beginnings,” DeMarcus said, in a release.
On Bobbycast, LeVox said those new chapters include his own music. “There are songs that I truly believe in and that I love that I think are giants — that I think the world needs to hear,” he said. “I'm excited about doing my own thing and I'm excited about what happens if the Flatts get together at some point when everything clears up. I don’t know. We will see.
“I’m going to continue to work — that's my calling and what I need to do.”