Why did the Rankins split up?
Here is the official press release from the Rankins: September 17, 1999 RANKINS PRESS RELEASE After a critically acclaimed ten year musical career highlighted by album sales in excess of two million units, international touring, and numerous hit singles, the multiple Juno-award winning band, The Rankins, will cease to record and perform as a group in order to pursue independant careers and interests. Cookie Rankin will pursue various songwriting and recording projects while sister Heather will focus on a career in acting (She appears in “The Hanging Garden”); Jimmy Rankin, a prolific songwriter, will begin work on a solo record; John Morris Rankin plans to freelance as a multi-instrumentalist and composer. The group will perform all scheduled engagements in September and October, including a benefit for Restoration House at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton, Ontario on October 21st, and call it a wrap in early November. In late November and December, Heather, Cookie, and Raylene (who left the
