{"id":14710,"date":"2021-05-20T19:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2021-05-20T10:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:13:56","slug":"darius-rucker-refused-the-star-treatment-when-he-switched-to-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/darius-rucker-refused-the-star-treatment-when-he-switched-to-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker Refused The Star Treatment When He Switched To Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50p_qTUqiMA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Darius Rucker was a superstar with Hootie &amp; the Blowfish when he transitioned to country music in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of riding in like a big shot expecting special treatment, he did the opposite and paid his dues all over again.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about it on Clint Black&#8217;s upcoming series &#8220;Taking In Circles&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[In] the very first meeting about the record I said &#8216;What do you do if you&#8217;re the low guy? What do you do if you&#8217;re the new guy? They were like, &#8216;Well, you do a radio tour. But we didn&#8217;t think you would do that.&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Light it up.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Darius did a massive radio tour because he wanted to earn his way onto the airwaves like everybody else.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[I] was like, &#8216;if you play my song, great. If not, hey man we had a beer, it was cool.&#8217; We went around with that attitude, and people liked the song.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That song was his first #1 country hit, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Think I Don&#8217;t Think About It&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Clint&#8217;s &#8220;Talking in Circles&#8221; episode with Darius debuts May 22nd on the Circle Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker was a superstar with Hootie &amp; the Blowfish, but he was willing to pay his dues when he moved to country music in 2008.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":14715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[4390,3722,5497],"class_list":["post-14710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-clint-black","tag-darius-rucker","tag-talking-in-circles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 13:52:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/05\/darius-rucker-refused-the-star-treatment-when-he-switched-to-country\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}