{"id":7587,"date":"2020-02-15T05:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T10:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=7587"},"modified":"2020-02-18T05:23:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T10:23:52","slug":"darius-rucker-sets-a-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/02\/darius-rucker-sets-a-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker Sets A Record"},"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\/hvKyBcCDOB4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Darius Rucker\u00a0<\/strong>was surprised with a plaque celebrating the RIAA\u2019s recent 8x-Platinum certification of his hit song \u201cWagon Wheel\u201d during a visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame &amp; Museum on Wednesday (February 12th) in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>Since topping the charts for back-to-back weeks in 2013, \u201cWagon Wheel\u201d has now become one of the top five best-selling Country songs of all time and Darius is now the only solo male country act to achieve the honor of an 8x-plus multi-Platinum song in RIAA\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWagon Wheel\u201d was originally released by\u00a0<strong>Old Crow Medicine Show\u00a0<\/strong>in 2004. It was written by the band\u2019s lead singer,\u00a0<strong>Ketch Secor<\/strong>, and was based on a sketch by\u00a0<strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>, who is credited as a co-writer. The single was featured on Darius&#8217; 2013\u00a0<em>True Believers<\/em>\u00a0album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWagon Wheel\u201d earned Darius a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance at the 56th Annual\u00a0<em>Grammy Awards<\/em>, the third of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wagon Wheel ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":7615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[3722],"class_list":["post-7587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-darius-rucker"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 08:32:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2020\/02\/darius-rucker-sets-a-record\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}