{"id":24026,"date":"2023-04-06T08:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=24026"},"modified":"2023-04-06T07:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:47:58","slug":"darius-rucker-on-why-he-switched-over-to-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/darius-rucker-on-why-he-switched-over-to-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker On Why He Switched Over To Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the &#8220;CMT Music Awards&#8221; over the weekend, Darius Rucker was asked about going country in 2008, and why he did it.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, he&#8217;d been talking about it for years, and then Hootie &amp; the Blowfish broke up.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had a meeting and [said] we weren&#8217;t going to tour anymore. So I knew it was time for me to go to Nashville and see if I could do it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He says there were lots of haters at first, but he was just glad someone was paying him to make a record and hoped he could keep it up.<\/p>\n<p>His first single &#8220;Don&#8217;t Think I Don&#8217;t Think About It&#8221; did well though, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Hootie eventually reunited in 2018, and they still play shows occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re actually headlining an event later this month in Canc\u00fan, Mexico called &#8220;HootieFest&#8221;. The Gin Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Barenaked Ladies, and Collective Soul have also signed on for it.<\/p>\n<p>Darius also teamed up with the Black Crowes to perform &#8220;She Talks To Angels&#8221; at the CMT Music Awards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6lmvG7V0LoE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the &#8220;CMT Music Awards&#8221; over the weekend, Darius Rucker was asked about going country in 2008, and why he did it.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[707,85,1103],"class_list":["post-24026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cmt-music-awards","tag-darius-rucker","tag-hootie-the-blowfish"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 23:08:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/darius-rucker-on-why-he-switched-over-to-country-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}