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Darius Rucker on the Best of Hootie and the Hits That Should’ve Been
“To think I wrote it when I was a drunk kid and that many people know it is pretty awesome.”
In his new memoir, Life’s Too Short, Rucker remembers listening to Al Green’s cover of “For the Good Times” “ten, twenty times in a row” at the age of 6, meandering bar to bar during college to request the Black Crowes’ “She Talks to Angels,” and rewinding the video for the Notorious B.I.G.’s “Big Poppa” all night one Fourth of July. Rucker’s success already seemed unlikely in 1994, when his group Hootie and the Blowfish, once a hard-partying college band, were selling their debut album, Cracked Rear View, by the millions. And we told him, “Dude, why’d you do that?” We come back in six weeks and it says, “Hootie and the Blowfish, that shitty cover band,” [ laughs] you know, “These fuckers will never make it,” “Who do they think they are?” “They suck!” It was like, See?
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