Darius Rucker originally achieved fame in the rock genre playing guitar and singing with Hootie and the Blowfish the mid 1980s. However over the years he began to gravitate towards country music. In 2009, he became the first black American to win the New Artist Award from the Country Music Association, and the second black person to win any award from the association. A second album, Charleston, SC 1966, was released on October 12, 2010. The album includes the number one singles, "Come Back Song" and "This". His third country album True Believers (2013) reached No. 2 on the US Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the US Top Country Albums Billboard chart with singles "True Believers" (#24), "Wagon Wheel" (#1), and "Radio" (#14), all charting on the Billboard U.S. Country charts. It is his song Wagon Wheel that I obsessed about the recording of which you can hear below.

-Brian K. Forrest

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