The Country Music Association announced its nominees for the 43rd Annual CMA Awards earlier today by Darius Rucker and Lee Ann Womack on ABC's Good Morning America and by Randy Houser on CMT.Brad Paisley led the nominations with six while George Strait, Keith Urban, Jamey Johnson, Taylor Swift and Zac Brown each received four.Veteran Artists were nominated in eight of the twelve categories, inc...
Darius Rucker and Lee Ann Womack will announce the final nominees for the 43rd Annual CMA Awards LIVE on Wednesday, September 9 on ABC’s Good Morning America.Rucker and Womack are excited to be part of the announcement.“I was so honored to perform at the 2008 CMA Awards Show, and I feel privileged to be a [...]
Capitol Records Nashville threw a party for Darius Rucker last week to celebrate the success of Rucker’s country debut Learn To Live which was just certified Platinum by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.Today, Rucker is celebrating his latest single, “Alright” with a No.1 party. After the party, Rucker is playing a [...]
Darius Rucker is performing at the historic Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN tomorrow (Monday, August 24) as part of the Samsung at&t Summer Krush concert series and we have TWO pair of priority access tickets for the show to give away!If you’re in the Nashville area and would like to attend the concert, send [...]
Music fans probably recognize the name Darius Rucker pretty quickly from his work with Hootie and the Blowfish. Now, the country music community is getting to know him really well with his new solo project titled "Learn to Live." Now, here lately, quite a few artists from other styles of music have tried to break into the world of country music. Some have done well, others, well not so much....
The barometer by which Darius Rucker’s stint as a country artist will be measured isn’t critical acclaim, but rather commercial success. Therefore, it shouldn’t be any surprise that Live To Learn doesn’t break new ground but treads familiar water, despite overtures to the contrary in pre-release press. Throughout twelve songs, Rucker demonstrates that he [...]
The barometer by which Darius Rucker’s stint as a country artist will be measured isn’t critical acclaim, but rather commercial success. Therefore, it shouldn’t be any surprise that Live To Learn doesn’t break new ground but treads familiar water, despite overtures to the contrary in pre-release press. Throughout twelve songs, Rucker demonstrates that he [...]
Songwriters: Chris DuBois, Ashley Gorley, and Darius RuckerDarius Rucker’s second country single, “It Won’t Be Like This For Long,” exhibits a few flaws, but one of the main knocks against it is one that mars his album, Learn To Live: it’s lack of originality. The song revolves around specific moments between a father and [...]
Darius Rucker is celebrating his first RIAA-certified platinum country album this week.“To have an album sell a million copies today is really an achievement. I feel so blessed to have been embraced in the country music community with this album, and I couldn’t have done it without all the support from country radio and [...]
Music fans probably recognize the name Darius Rucker pretty quickly from his work with Hootie and the Blowfish. Now, the country music community is getting to know him really well with his new solo project titled "Learn to Live." Now, here lately, quite a few artists from other styles of music have tried to break into the world of country music. Some have done well, others, well not so much....