WEBVTT - Best Of: Darius Rucker- Caroline's First Every Podcast Guest 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.840 I am going back to the beginning because it's just time. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:09.120 I have been podcasting for close to ten years now. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.680 I cannot even believe it. When I started podcasting, I 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:14.480 was a nervous wreck. I had no idea how to 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:14.800 do it. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.160 I was scared to ask people to come on my podcast. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.000 But my very first guest was Darius Rucker. The Darius Rucker, 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.799 the lead singer of Hoodi and the Blowfush, the huge 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.760 country star, Darius Rucker, the sweetest heart ever. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:32.600 And my husband Michael was touring with him and his band. 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:34.960 Michael's band is a Thousand Horses, and they were opening 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.680 for Darius, and I just got super courageous and I 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.199 asked Darius to come on my podcast. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.200 And he was the very first episode that I ever had. 0:00:42.280 --> 0:00:44.559 So I am throwing it back to the first episode 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:48.239 I have ever done for my podcast, and it's with 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:51.080 the one and only Darius Rucker. So let's go back 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.519 down memory lane and check it out. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.200 Carl Line, she's a queen of talking. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.080 Hey with sown you live. 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.400 She's on the inside. She got the snoop on the 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.280 walls to watch on the lawns aside. No one can 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:15.920 do win, quiet. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:23.759 Die cal line, carral Line, no one can do Win 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.920 Quiet Die call Line. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.120 It's Tiple Caroline. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.839 Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.800 I'm your host, Caroline Hobby, and I am so excited 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.479 that you're here with me. This is my first podcast, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.679 in my first episode, Yay. Before I get into the interview, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.440 I want to give you a quick background onto who 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.160 I am. I am a Texas native born and raised. 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.200 Moved to Nashville when I was nineteen to become a 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.880 country music star. I got hooked up with two awesome girls, 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.480 Jennifer Wayne and Taylor Lynn, and we formed a trio 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.480 called Stealing Angels. I was in that trio for about 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.840 seven years. We toured the country. 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:02.240 On a tour bus. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.760 We had two songs in the top fifty on the 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:07.440 charts on the Country charts, and we even got to 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:11.120 play Madison Square Garden open up for Tim McGraw, Rascal Flats, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.880 Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.360 It was such a wild ride. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.519 It eventually fell apart, which was really sad and disheartening 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.560 and kind of broke my heart a little bit. But 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.000 just like when one thing falls apart, another thing comes 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.320 together and Jen and I got asked to do the 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.120 Amazing Race, which is the reality show which takes you 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:28.799 around the world. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.120 It was so fun. It's such an incredible experience. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:36.799 We got fourth place on season twenty two, and then 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.360 if that wasn't cool enough, just to race once, we 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.720 got asked back to race again on the All Star 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.360 season and we ended up coming in second place. We 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.760 lost the whole race by four seconds. Those were really 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.000 expensive seconds because you win a million dollars if you win, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.680 but the experience was priceless. Because of Amazing Race. We 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.720 got to go to like twenty different countries, which is 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:01.320 just crazy. And when I finished that, when I finished 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.639 the second time racing on Amazing Race, I came back 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.880 to Nashville and I was like, what do I really love? 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.560 And I realized I love getting to know people, and 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:10.840 I love getting to know people's stories and figuring out 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.480 their drive and how people stay inspired. Because this industry, 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.800 this entertainment industry, is crazy and it can break your 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:19.560 heart and it can tear you down, and you have 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.720 to really have a vision, and you have to have 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:23.440 a focus, and you have to have a drive. And 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:26.360 it's not for the week, for sure, It's not for 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.920 the faint of heart, and so I definitely was curious 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.760 about how people stay motivated. And I've collected a ton 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.800 of interesting friends after living in Nashville for over ten years, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.640 and I'm like, you know what, I'm going to interview 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.040 these people and I'm going to get to know what's 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:41.880 going on in their brains and see why they wake 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.640 up every morning and get hyper about their career and 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.160 get hyper about their dreams. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.240 So that is why hyper Caroline Hobby was born. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.280 And I hope that you enjoy hearing from all these 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.920 incredible people, because it has been a blast so far 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.720 getting to talk to some of the coolest people I 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.480 know in Nashville. The first person that we're interviewing is 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.720 Darius Rucker. What He's from Hooty and the Blowfish. He 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.440 sold thirty million albums with Hooty and the Blowfish. And 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:11.600 if that wasn't crazy enough and cool enough, he then 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.080 started all the way back over in country music and 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.880 climbed his way back from the just the starting ground 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.000 all the way to the top of the charts and 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.720 country music. He didn't take any freebies. He didn't come 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.080 in as a superstar. He started off like any other 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.440 newbie and country music and worked his way all the 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.000 way up to the top. And his story is incredible, 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.960 It's inspiring. He's probably one of the most hard working, 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.120 driven men I've ever met. He's hilarious and it was 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.240 a super big privilege to get to interview him. So 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:44.000 please welcome Darius Rucker to Hyper Caroline Hobby. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.080 Hi, Darius Rucker. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:46.600 How are you? 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.160 I'm fabulous? How are you doing? 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:49.760 Oh good? 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.280 Are you enjoying this snow? 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.040 A big snow guy? But you know it's okay? 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.440 Ah, I know, well you don't. You don't live in Nashville, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.160 do you No, I don't live in Nashville and Charleston. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.000 We never get snow. 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.200 So you know, when I came here yesterday and it 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.240 was crazy, I hadn't stopped as I woke up. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.159 I think you brought it with you because it started yesterday. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:07.560 You know. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.160 Oh sorry, you know I got to bring something. How 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:10.920 come you don't want to come to ashe I'm banded. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.560 That's very true. Yeah, absolutely, Okay. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.920 So you started off and I was like, in nineteen 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:22.080 eighty six is when this whole thing started for you. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:23.159 I was a. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.840 Sophomore in college and met this guy who uh was 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.800 a guitar player. And he asked me if he heard 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:31.880 me singing in the shower. 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.640 Yeah, you heard me singing a Billy Joel song. 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:34.839 And you always singing the shower? 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:36.520 I used to. I don't. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:37.920 I don't think I do much anymore, but I used 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:39.760 to all the time. Yeah, because this was like we 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:42.159 had community showers, you know. It wasn't like like you 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.400 know now they have all these new, these great showers 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.280 and these dorms, but ours was just four six shower heads. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.880 In one open room one one open room. 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:49.440 Yeah. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.160 And I have a shower in the afternoon and no 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:52.640 one was in there, and I'm singing and I walk 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:53.760 out and he goes, man, was that you? 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.040 I was like, yeah, He's like, wow. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.800 You know I play guitar and that, and I said really, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:58.760 I was like, you know, he said, want you come 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:00.000 out later see we be doing the same song. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.680 And I did. And butter Man, ever since. 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.359 Did you have intentions to be a singer? 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.600 I always wanted to be. That's all I ever wanted, really, 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:08.400 since I was four, that's all I ever wanted to be. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:08.880 Really. 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.920 Yeah, you know, but you get older and you realize 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:12.440 that's never going to happen and you got to get 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:12.960 a real job. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:14.680 Are you going to do the real job thing? 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:15.479 Yeah? I want to. 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.240 I wanted to work in sports, something to sports, either 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:20.560 radio or television or something. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.800 We have a great voice for it, like a voice. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.240 Yeah. I still I still want to have a sports 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:25.080 talk show some day. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.680 Sports I want to do that someday I retire. 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:29.440 I like them. I like all, you know, the three 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.760 majors we have here, But football I live for it. 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.000 It's sometimes it's really why I get out of bed 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:35.440 and in the morning because. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.239 Football is on that day. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.960 Were you stoked about the Super Bowl? 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:40.920 I wis shouldn't have been a better game? I was? Uh, 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:41.400 I was. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:43.720 I'm always stoked py super Bowl because it's the it's 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:47.680 the championship of my favorite league. But then around two 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.440 minutes left in the fourth court, I get really sad 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.640 because I realized it's normal football till like September augusta 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.680 and and that's always a sad time for me. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:56.440 I'm sorry. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.640 I barely even knew who was playing in the Super Bowl. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:01.080 Probably only one team really played. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.720 Cle's okay, okay, I want to start off with some 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:05.279 rapid fire. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.960 Okay, Ready, are your morning or a night person. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:08.760 Morning? 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.000 What I've become. I used to be a night person. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.280 But in my but you can hang, I can hang, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.680 but I get up. I'm up every morning at six, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.920 six thirty no matter what I do, and I play 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.360 all four. You don't getting the kids in school or whatever. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:21.720 But I'm I'm a morning person. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:23.120 So you're just not really a sleep person. 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:25.480 Not lately. No, I don't. I don't. I don't need 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:26.280 eight that's for sure. 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:28.320 You don't need eight. No, what can you function on? 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.400 I'm going on about I'm seriously going on about nine 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.480 hours in the last four days right now. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.400 So does that make you like irritable? 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:37.160 I don't think so. 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:38.560 You're always so pleasant. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:39.120 I try to be. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.480 When I get tired, I get irritable, not you. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:45.760 Yeah, Now, when I get tired, I just get ain't quiet. 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:46.680 When I get tired, I think. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.600 Okay, okay, so morning. If you had to be the 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.480 pet cat to any celebrity, who would it be? 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:52.960 And why? 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.240 If I have to be a cat for any celebrity, 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.360 I would be a cat for Paula Kartney. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.440 Okay, So I can hang out with him. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:05.240 You're number one. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.120 Oh, he's my buddy. 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.000 He's one of the few things on my bucket list 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:09.520 is to sit and have a beer with He's my 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:11.520 absolutely Al Green's my absolute idol. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.320 Al Green is the guy who made me want to sing. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.840 Really, you know, but I've been lucky, fortunate enough to 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:18.960 actually hang out with a couple of times. 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.600 Great. He's just a great human being. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.640 And you live up the hope you had. 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.440 Absolutely, he was great to be nice and and it 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:25.960 was awesome. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.240 And but you know, Paul's is a close second. I 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.960 just you know, I love Paul mcarty. 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.800 Okay, okay, so he'd be his cat sitting. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.920 It stroked me rubbing up against his leg, absolutely, okay. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:42.040 Any tattoos or piercings. 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.079 Three tattoos. Tattoos I got too. I'm getting a third one. 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:46.160 What are you going to get? 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.319 I want to find. 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.520 Somebody to And I was gonna not cheesy, but in 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.800 Elvis writing is from a from the Lord of the rings. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:56.400 I want my three kids names. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.760 I love that. Where do you want to put it? 0:08:58.840 --> 0:08:59.120 Probably? 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:01.040 And do you have another one on your own? 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.720 I got a I thought it was a peace flag, 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.719 and uh, this is flag I have my arm. It's red, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.840 golden green, and uh. And in the corner where the 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.240 stars are. I put a piece sign and one day 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.240 I get out of the shower and my wife goes this, Honey, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.600 I thought you said you got the peace flag. 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:18.920 I said this. 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.000 He said, no, you didn't. You get the Mercedes flag. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:22.600 And I looked at it and I realized they didn't put 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.440 the line down the middle. So I do have the Mercedes. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:28.160 Bens drive a Mercedes. She does, you might want get 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:29.840 free Mercedes if you put it on your arm. 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:30.280 Agree. 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:35.240 I agree, that's amazing. Okay, what do you consider your 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.240 greatest achievement? 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.240 Oh, my grace. Achievements are my kids? 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.600 Really? That's awesome? 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.960 Yeah, I mean it's you know Carrie who's in college now. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:42.720 I'm so proud of her. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.720 She struggled through a lot of hard times in school 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.679 and now she's blossoming in such a wonderful, beautiful being 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.559 in college and just enjoying herself. And my other you know, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:53.720 Danny and Jack are just such great kids that they're 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.040 definitely my my that's the. 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:55.679 Best thing I've ever done. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.640 Awesome. Did you always know you wanted kids too? 0:09:58.920 --> 0:09:59.520 Absolutely? 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:00.960 Was it hard to have kids touring? 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:02.440 Uh? 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.240 It wasn't hard. I mean it wasn't hard. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:05.920 It was hard with carry, to be honest with you, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.199 because who do you be? Toured so different than country 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.000 guys did. Like I'd go for six months and I'd 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.160 go for seriously, I'd go for a month without coming home, 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.080 and then you come home and you know, you're home. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:15.600 For three days. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:17.679 Yeah, and then you're back out for three weeks and 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.400 you know, we don't do that in country, thank goodness. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 But uh, it's tough. Then now it's just great. 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.400 I mean, you know, I play tour in the summer 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.360 and on the weekends, and you know, if the kids 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:26.560 want to go, my sons and you know, as you know, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.079 it was with me the whole time. Yeah, they come 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.160 out and they come out with me. So that's always fun. 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:35.280 Okay, So country touring is a little more family absolutely oriented. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.319 Absolutely no doubt about that. 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.440 Oh yeah, okay, okay, So you met in the shower, 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.000 but your band were they actually in the shower with you? 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.880 No, I was just meaning to say. I came out 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.640 of the bathroom and he was staying. His door just 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.200 happened to be right by the shower, and I came 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:47.760 out of the bathroom. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.719 He was standing in this door, and yeah, that's what 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.600 he said. You know, well you singing man. 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.880 Yeah, so then y'all wrote together all your man y'all 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:55.760 are like a unit. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:56.760 You'll always right together. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.079 We're man. Yeah, we always uh you know, beat, we 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:00.920 do pretty much everything. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.760 Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. And in nineteen it was a 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.920 nice nightey four, Here comes Cracker, are you yeah? Did 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:07.640 you see that coming? 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.440 No? Still don't believe it. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:11.800 Sixteen million albums, Still don't believe it. 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.560 I mean it has to do in the highest selling 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.120 albums of all times. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:15.720 It's up there. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.320 We uh, you know, we had been a band for 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.760 nine years, eight years eight nine years. We've been a 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.840 band before we had a record deal, and we had 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.600 seen it going from being, you know, the biggest band 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.200 in my dorm room, to be in the biggest band 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.640 in our dorm, to be in the biggest band in 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:30.400 our college, then. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:31.360 The biggest play your college. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:32.920 Yeah, oh, you play frat parties all time in the 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.600 clubs and everything and all that stuff, and then you know, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.320 then the biggest band in Columbia, then the biggest band 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:38.920 in South Carolina, and then we were the biggest band 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.440 in the southeast. Didn't have a record deal, and so 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.600 we'd watched our careers climb, so we got a record deal. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.480 We just thought, you know, okay, this is just another 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.520 step in our career. But then all of a sudden, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.680 the David Letiman Show happened, and we we went to 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.720 bed that night, we went to bed being hooting the Blowfish, 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.800 and the next day we woke up about to be 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:58.000 one of the biggest. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:58.720 Bands in the world. Was crazy. 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.040 How did that? How do you handle that? Were you 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:02.000 ready for it? 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:03.720 Oh? I don't. I don't think we have to be. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.320 We didn't. We were lucky. 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.640 We had four guys who were so close and so 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:10.880 on each other, so on top of each other, that 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.760 nobody could get a big at or get you know, 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.360 I mean we we I remember when a Dean put 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.600 on a black T shirt for the first time. I 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.240 think he took five hours of us just killing him. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.160 Oh you're a rock star now. Oh you know your 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.280 cool black T shirt. You're golf now. 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.400 And so there was no time and and for us, 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:29.840 we were on the road so much, there was no time. 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:35.000 We we didn't see the record sales going crazy. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.760 We saw our record at number one every week in 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.920 the Billboard, but we didn't see it. I mean, the 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.199 money was going in the bank and we were just 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:42.439 on the road. All we knew was these shows a 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.600 getting bigger and this is aweso. Yeah, that's all we knew. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:45.760 And that's that was great. 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.439 So off that record, you had hold my Hand, only 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:49.680 want to be with You. I got to say that 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:50.400 was my theme song. 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.920 I loved that song the best, let Her Cry and 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:59.160 Time were those of four singles off huge songs. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.679 Yeah records, right, I mean yeah, I mean a couple 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:04.680 of those songs were probably and you know, there an 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.600 American songbook, you know, to be around for a while, 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.480 and and uh, you know, I was a great feeling 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.240 watching those and we came along in such a perfect time. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:14.960 It was timing more than do you think that's yeah, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.920 the record was good, but it wasn't sixty and and 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.080 uh and you know, grunge was big, and you know, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.480 record sales were dipping and nobody was you know, and 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.720 grunge was out and everybody was tired of being sad 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:29.520 and pissed off. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.600 And we came out and said hold my Hand, and yeah, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:32.319 the world said. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.880 Okay, weldn So what inspired you to write that? 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.559 Sony, our drummer, actually brought that one. He wrote that one. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.839 That's that's a good story. He uh he uh. We 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.560 were we our first drummer was leaving and we were 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.920 auditioning drummers and Sony came by the house and uh 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.920 he played with us, auditioned and then he said, I 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.120 got the song on what you guys did because I 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:50.920 want to start doing the mid original music and he 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:51.720 played old my hand. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:53.720 We were like, you're the drummer. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:09.760 That's amazing. Okay, So you guys going to do five albums. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.160 I don't know how you did, but five sounds about right. 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.880 I really don't amazing. Okay. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.360 After that happens, you guys going to tour forever. Then 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:23.760 you're like, I'm gonna just pull a Hoodini and go 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.800 country because I'm such a badass, Like why not just 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:28.920 start from the bottom again. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.160 In nineteen eighty nine, Radney Foster came In nineteen ninety, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.200 Radney Foster came out with his first soulo record called 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.560 Del Rio Texas nineteen fifty nine amazing and I'll never 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.680 forget the first time I heard that record. The first 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:41.880 time I heard that record, I said, Man, I want 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:44.280 sing cunty someday because I thought the record was so great, 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:45.920 and I mean I had been a fan growing up. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:47.320 I was a big Kenny Rogers guy. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.440 And you know, the opry was all you know, we 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.080 listened to it on the week, you know, because it 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:52.520 was for me. It was a lot of music and 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:53.920 I always wanted to hear a love music and you 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:55.920 could find you know, it was AM radio guy. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:57.760 That's how old I am. I was an AM radio guy. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:58.280 Just love it. 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:00.720 And you I know all the history of Offrey too. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.200 Yeah I do. I know, I try to study some 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.360 of that stuff. But uh, then I just. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.880 And then we toured every year and one day Sony, 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:10.720 our drummer, said, I just don't want to tour ever. 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:11.920 You I don't want to be a touring band like 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.280 that anymore. And yeah, he got tired of it. And 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.200 so for us, I was like, Okay, I guess I'm 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:18.720 gonna try to make a record country record. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.560 What's the rest of the band fine with it? 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.480 Yeah, I mean we weren't gonna play okay, well we 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:24.160 were taking time off. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:25.800 So yeah, everybody go do whatever you want to do. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.360 And you're like, I'm still ready to do this. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:27.920 Yeah I was. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:29.920 I had always felt and like I'd even said it 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.160 to my account a few times. I'd always said, I 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:33.880 don't think my career is over. You know, I don't 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.960 think we're done. I don't think I'm done. And and uh, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.040