{"id":50858,"date":"2026-10-05T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=50858"},"modified":"2026-10-02T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:23:18","slug":"darius-rucker-remembers-the-days-hootie-the-blowfish-played-for-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/darius-rucker-remembers-the-days-hootie-the-blowfish-played-for-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker Remembers The Days Hootie &amp; The Blowfish Played For Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before selling millions of records and packing arenas, <strong>Darius Rucker<\/strong> and <strong>Hootie &amp; The Blowfish<\/strong> were just a college band trying to make it work in South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darius was recently on the <em><strong>&#8220;Bussin&#8217; with the Boys&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>podcast, and he got talking about the band&#8217;s early days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Our first probably 10 gigs, 15 gigs, were strictly for beer.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But when they got more popular, the compensation went up from two cases of beer to three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And money was so tight, they didn&#8217;t even have all their own equipment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We had to steal the PA from the university because we couldn&#8217;t afford a PA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hootie &amp; the Blowfish played their first 15 shows for one form of payment: cases of beer \ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/87XvLfiE1t\">pic.twitter.com\/87XvLfiE1t<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bussin&#39; With The Boys (@BussinWTB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BussinWTB\/status\/2104997348031996246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before selling millions of records and packing arenas, Darius Rucker and Hootie &amp; The Blowfish were just a college band trying to make it work in South Carolina. Darius was recently on the &#8220;Bussin&#8217; with the Boys&#8221;&nbsp;podcast, and he got talking about the band&#8217;s early days. &#8220;Our first probably 10 gigs, 15 gigs, were strictly","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":[1718,5496,439,1218,2163,891],"class_list":["post-50858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-beer","tag-bussin-with-the-boys","tag-darius-rucker","tag-hootie-the-blowfish","tag-podcast","tag-south-carolina"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-12 13:23:04","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\/10\/darius-rucker-remembers-the-days-hootie-the-blowfish-played-for-beer\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858","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=50858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50882,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50858\/revisions\/50882"}],"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=50858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}