Darius Rucker Talks Hootie Legacy and Helping Country Music ‘Look More Like America’ Ahead of Walk of Fame Honor
variety.comDarius Rucker. “You have to pinch yourself when you hear something like that — it just blows your mind. I’m just a kid from South Carolina.” Between Hootie & the Blowfish’s 1994 debut album, “Cracked Rear View” (21 times platinum), and his inescapable 2013 single, “Wagon Wheel” (11 times platinum), Rucker has provided the sound for two massive musical phenomena.
Add in four No. 1 albums and 10 No. 1 singles on the country charts, plus three Grammy awards, and it’s pretty apparent why on Dec.
5, he’s receiving his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame “I found out on Twitter,” says Rucker with a laugh, sipping a soda in the restaurant of New York’s ritzy St.
Regis Hotel. “I called my manager and said, ‘Is this real?’ I really thought they were messing with me. You don’t even let yourself dream about something like this because it’s only the biggest — the people that have done special things, and to think that they put me in that category is pretty damn cool.
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