{"id":49900,"date":"2026-07-21T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:50:00","slug":"darius-rucker-eyes-retirement-in-two-years-with-one-final-hootie-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/darius-rucker-eyes-retirement-in-two-years-with-one-final-hootie-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker Eyes Retirement In Two Years With One Final Hootie Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boomsite.fm\/darius-rucker-eyes-retirement-in-two-years-with-one-final-hootie-tour?category=Country\"><\/a><strong>Darius Rucker<\/strong>\u00a0has revealed plans to retire within two years, saying he wants to go out with a major farewell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 60-year-old singer opened up on the\u00a0<em>Dan Patrick Show<\/em>, noting the toll of a gruelling schedule. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I played 110 shows last year&#8230; what am I doing? I&#8217;m retiring in two years&#8230; I might. I&#8217;ve been really looking at it. I&#8217;m looking at maybe doing a tour \u2014 one more big Hootie thing, and calling it.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rucker also revealed his ideal final show location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have to finish at Williams-Brice Stadium,&#8221; he said, referencing the Columbia, South Carolina venue.<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/irgb_qAfAFI\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker\u00a0has revealed plans to retire within two years, saying he wants to go out with a major farewell. The 60-year-old singer opened up on the\u00a0Dan Patrick Show, noting the toll of a gruelling schedule. &#8220;I played 110 shows last year&#8230; what am I doing? I&#8217;m retiring in two years&#8230; I might. I&#8217;ve been really","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":34042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4847,7246,7608,439,7606,1414,2079,891,7607],"class_list":["post-49900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-columbia","tag-dan-patrick","tag-dan-patrick-show","tag-darius-rucker","tag-hootie","tag-hootie-and-the-blowfish","tag-retire","tag-south-carolina","tag-williams-brice-stadium"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 03:54:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/darius-rucker-eyes-retirement-in-two-years-with-one-final-hootie-tour\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49901,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49900\/revisions\/49901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}