Hootie Babylon! Darius Rucker Tells All

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Darius Rucker looks back at Hootie and the Blowfish's hard-partying early days (they once bulk-purchased $32,000 worth of ecstasy!), the making of his greatest hits, and much, much more in our career-spanning new interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	I'm Brian Hyatt.
0:32.2	This is Rolling Stone Music Now. So I love a good music memoir. If you're listening to this, I bet you do too. I recently read one I really enjoyed. It's called Life's Too Short, a memoir by Darius Rucker, the lead singer of
0:44.8	Hootie and the Blowfish and more recently of course a country superstar.
0:48.4	I thought it was a good excuse to have Darius join me and talk about all sorts of things. It's a really fun interview.
0:54.0	Let's get right to it.
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