Comments on: Album Review: Darius Rucker – Learn To Live

By: Versicherungsblog

Versicherungsblog — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:06:11 +0000

I like good ear candy ;-)

By: vergleichstrom

vergleichstrom — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:14:33 +0000

Realy great sound! very good tracks!

By: Angelreisen

Angelreisen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:27:53 +0000

Awesome sound, I like the songs. Keep on.

By: Etikettendrucker

Etikettendrucker — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:47:14 +0000

Just heard some tracks, great sound.

By: stormy

stormy — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:23:53 +0000

I have one Hootie and the Blowfish album to prove that Hootie has not always wanted to do country badly enough to actually do it.

By: MrsSam

MrsSam — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:50:23 +0000

People! After you finish trashing Mr. Rucker for not having the greatest country album in the universe ever, think about this. It is what it is, love it or hate it – buy it, don’t buy it. Poor guy is swimming upstream enough as a Black man who said “hey, I want to do a country album”. Garten is right. Mr. Rucker is southern and despite what all told him, he always wanted to do country music. This is where his heart is folks, and isn’t that what country music is about – the heart? Let him do what country is to him (or what he was able to do record deal wise) and perhaps he will improve enough for you country experts out there. Mr. Rucker is on to something, leave him be!

By: xtc-templates

xtc-templates — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:51:24 +0000

Not bad overall, hopefully I like it more as I go through it a few more times. Thanks Marco, for this awesome tip about Darius Rucker.

By: Fundgrube

Fundgrube — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:57:14 +0000

hey Marco, thanx for this info, I was just looking for this!

By: Strompreise

Strompreise — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:33:36 +0000

By the way, you can get the lyrics from him on metrolyrics-com ! I just checked it out. Thanks for the review and best regards from Germany, Marco

By: Gummistiefel

Gummistiefel — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:05:25 +0000

Darius Rucker’s leap into country music is not a move without precedent for the Hootie & the Blowfish lead singer, as his band was loosely rooted in country-ish roots rock. Nevertheless, a more important antecedent for Learn to Live is a 2005 Burger King commercial where Rucker was decked out in a Nudie suit while singing a spin on “Big Rock Candy Mountain.” It was the unveiling of Rucker the country singer, and caused enough of a sensation to make a country album seem like a feasible move. As slight as the commercial was, it provided a stronger musical foundation than the urban R&B behind his 2002 solo debut Back to Then did, as Rucker showed no inclination toward modern soul in Hootie, whereas Learn to Live appeals directly to the frat boys and sports fanatics that made Cracked Rear View perhaps the most inexplicable multi-platinum hit of the ’90s. Like those songs, the tunes on Learn to Live are big and simple, powered by obvious hooks delivered plainly — and truth be told, apart from the 2-step shuffle of “All I Want,” the loping modern country of “Alright,” and the slow pace of the clever barroom crawl “Drinkin’ and Dialin’,” they don’t feel especially country, either.