Darius Rucker’s sophomore Country album, Charleston, SC 1966, is due in stores Oct. 12. After the platinum success of his debut Country album, Learn To Live, many are wondering if Rucker can outdo himself the second time around.
“I don’t think it’s going to be light-years different,” Rucker said. “This record is more of an expansion of the last record than anything else. It’s like picking up where the last record left off.”
The title of Rucker's second album is a reference to hometown and birth-year, but it is also a tribute to Radney Foster’s first solo album, Del Rio, TX 1959.
Rucker said he first realized he could have a future as a Country artist after listening to Foster.
“It was his voice,” Rucker said. “It was really the first time where I had heard Country Music where I thought, ‘Man, I could sing that.'
“I always liked it, but I never really knew I could play it. But then I heard Radney, and it was like, ‘Wow, that guy’s amazing,” Rucker said.
Rucker collaborated with several songwriters on the album, including producer Frank Rogers, known for his work with Brad Paisley. When all the songwriting was finished, there were 77 songs to be sorted through.
Rucker, who won the CMA Best New Artist Award, said that narrowing the number to a dozen songs wasn’t a tough decision.
“We just listened to them and saw what was rising to the top,” Rucker said in an interview with Texas newspaper the Victoria Advocate. “When I say that, people say to me, ‘Man, that must be a hard decision.’ No, not really. The best songs really rise to the top.”
Rucker is currently on tour with Paisley’s H2O World Tour and will be performing at the Molson Canadian Amphitheatre in Toronto, Ontario, on Thursday, July 22.
Source: TheBoot.com
