Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a really good one for you this week, I think,

with one of my favorite people and one of the biggest stars

in all of music, Darius Rucker.

I'm not gonna say much here, you know Darius Rucker. I'm not going to say much here. You know Darius Rucker. You love Darius Rucker. You know that in

1986 at the University of South Carolina he and three buddies formed a band called Hoodie and the Blowfish that toured around kind of southern

college towns for a long time until they blew up with their debut album Cracked Rear

View in 1994. We'll tell you about the pivotal moment that turned them

from college band to international sensation. That album went Platinum 21 times

over.

It's in the top 10 best-selling albums of all time

in the history of music up there with Led Zeppelin

and the Eagles and the Stones, the Beatles,

and everybody else you can think of.

In 2008 they take a break and Darius Rucker says I'm going to my southern musical roots

and I'm going to sing country.

His first song in country goes to number one in the charts. He's had eight

number one songs. He's out with a new album titled Carolyn's boy really

special to him as you'll hear. His mother's, Carolyn, she died before his massive success.

She did sort of grant him the permission to pursue a life in music. She inspired him by the

music she

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