Darius Rucker didn't go into country music expecting he'd step right into having a major label record deal and quickly land tours with top-drawing country stars like Brad Paisley or Rascal Flatts . In fact, Rucker, who had spent the preceding two decades as the singer for Hootie & the Blowfish, wasn't thinking going country would do anything much for him on a career level. He actually expected ...

It’s been more than 15 years since Hootie & The Blowfish released Cracked Rear View, the band’s debut album that rocketed them to stardom. On Thursday the now broken up band’s lead singer was in East Tennessee, where he found himself in the midst of a career revival in country music.

DARIUS Rucker admits the success of his debut country album has taken him by surprise. The Hootie and the Blowfish frontman – who has sold 1 million copies of his Learn to Live record– took home the prestigious New Artist Of The Year gong at last week’s CMA Awards. “I didn’t think it would do this,” Rucker [...]

Country music singer and former Hootie and the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker is the New Artist of the Year in the Country Music Association. Rucker nabbed the award Monday at the annual CMA award night. He will perform in June in North Platte during the Nebraskaland Days Summer Jam Concert.

The Flatts will perform with Darius Rucker.

The Bryce Jordan Center announced country band Rascal Flatts along with former Hootie and the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker will play the venue on Jan. 22.

The national media are celebrating Nashville for new levels of inclusion within country music, with Darius Rucker winning CMA trophies last week on a glitzy night at the Sommet Center . But a few blocks up Broadway inside the federal courthouse, a starkly different image of race relations is unveiling before a handful of spectators.Attorneys backed by the NAACP are accusing the Metro school ...

Darius Rucker told reporters backstage that he'd be celebrating with a couple of beers following one of the biggest nights of his career -- winning a CMA Award for best new artist on Wednesday night (Nov. 11) in Nashville.

By CHRIS TALBOTT The Associated Press Darius Rucker was just a young boy with a love for "Hee Haw" and FM radio when he made a discovery - and a decision - that would shape the rest of his life.

A certain amount of irony accompanied Darius Rucker’s victory as New Artist of the Year at Wednesday’s 43rd annual CMA Awards. He is, under the Country Music Association’s voting rules, a new artist to the genre, though he’s hardly new to the music business. He experienced the big time before as the lead singer for Hootie + The Blowfish. Still, he’s done such a good job of reinventing himself ...