Darius Rucker’s new album, True Believers, featuring his current single, “Wagon Wheel,” is out today. When people listen to this album, Darius says, “I want people to walk away with two or three songs that are so much about them as it is about me. You know, because that’s when you know you’ve really done something when somebody puts a song on and you’re singing it, but in 
their head they’re singing it. It’s them. They wrote it. It’s their life. That’s what you try to do with songs. That’s what I’ve really tried to do with this record is to just write songs that people are going to take and feel like it’s their song, not a Darius Rucker song.”
True Believers is Darius’ third country album and he says, “I think the first two records, especially the first record, I wanted people to know how much I love the music.” The second album was almost a continuation of the first album, but Darius says for the third album, “It was totally different… this is an important record. Now we gotta wow them, we gotta get some songs that are really going to blow people away… I couldn’t rest on the last two records because even though they had been successes, I had to really go out and prove to everybody that we could make a great record.”
Something else that was different with this third album is that Darius recorded it at his house and he says, “I think being at home just made me, relaxed is the big word, but it also made things easier. I mean, I think even [my producer] Frank was saying when we were doing the vocals that it seemed so much easier. We’re getting the good stuff instantly.” Darius says being able to record at home in South Carolina made it not feel like work. “That was the thing about the first two records and doing everything in Nashville. I felt like I was working. You know, I’m going to work. And when it was this record, you know it was drop the kids off at school, go get some lunch, and then go sing or a while and then go pick the kids up from school. And it was so [good] just being home and having fun.” Darius enjoyed the recording process so much that he says, “I want to do the rest of my records like that.”
Darius will performing and promoting True Believers this morning on ABC’s Good
Morning America, and then look for him tomorrow night on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Darius Rucker’s new album, True Believers, featuring his current single, “Wagon Wheel,” is out today. When people listen to this album, Darius says, “I want people to walk away with two or three songs that are so much about them as it is about me. You know, because that’s when you know you’ve really done something when somebody puts a song on and you’re singing it, but in their head they’re singing it. It’s them. They wrote it. It’s their life. That’s what you try to do with songs. That’s what I’ve really tried to do with this record is to just write songs that people are going to take and feel like it’s their song, not a Darius Rucker song.” True Believers is Darius’ third country album and he says, “I think the first two records, especially the first record, I wanted people to know how much I love the music.” The second album was almost a continuation of the first album, but Darius says for the third album, “It was totally different… this is an important record. Now we gotta wow them, we gotta get some songs that are really going to blow people away… I couldn’t rest on the last two records because even though they had been successes, I had to really go out and prove to everybody that we could make a great record.” Something else that was different with this third album is that Darius recorded it at his house and he says, “I think being at home just made me, relaxed is the big word, but it also made things easier. I mean, I think even [my producer] Frank was saying when we were doing the vocals that it seemed so much easier. We’re getting the good stuff instantly.” Darius says being able to record at home in South Carolina made it not feel like work. “That was the thing about the first two records and doing everything in Nashville. I felt like I was working. You know, I’m going to work. And when it was this record, you know it was drop the kids off at school, go get some lunch, and then go sing or a while and then go pick the kids up from school. And it was so [good] just being home and having fun.” Darius enjoyed the recording process so much that he says, “I want to do the rest of my records like that.” Darius will performing and promoting True Believers this morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, and then look for him tomorrow night on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Carrie Underwood, Darius Rucker, Florida Georgia Line, George Strait, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban and Lady Antebellum will perform during this year’s live show. They will be joining other country stars: Hunter Hayes, Little Big Town, Luke Bryan, Pistol Annies and Taylor Swift, who were announced as performers last week.
