Let him call. Darius Rucker didn’t let an embarrassing fall along with his supplementary band Hootie & the Blowfish get him unwell.
The rocker and nation singer, 58, joked about his time then taking an unpleasant spray at the degree at Charleston, South Carolina’s annual Riverfront Revival live performance on Saturday, Oct. 10, with the autumn and aftermath caught on video by means of fanatics.
Day making a song his solo crash “Alright” from 2008, Rucker misplaced his bottom and faceplanted — and stored proper on making a song.
With the aid of safety, Rucker popped again up, chuckled at himself and declared to the family, “I’m old as f–k.”
He slightly overlooked a beat as he plunged to the garden; on the other hand, the condition were given the most productive of him, and he took a future to snicker at himself along with his keyboard participant, Lee Turner.
Ahead of the music ended, Turner teased Rucker by means of declaring the place he tripped. The singer, born in Charleston, next addressed the autumn, pointing out, “We’ve been doing this all summer. I hadn’t fell once. But I busted my ass in my hometown.”
Hootie & the Blowfish lately wrapped up a 43-city excursion that ran from Would possibly to September. The band, recognized for hits like “Hold My Hand” (1994), “Let Her Cry” (1994) and “Only Wanna Be with You” (1995), began in 1986 with vocalist Rucker, guitarist Mark Bryan, bassist Dean Felber and drummer Brantley Smith, who next left the crowd.
They discovered mainstream luck then freeing their July 1994 debut booklet “Cracked Rear View,” which went qualified platinum by means of Jan 1995 and next was the 12 months’s best-selling booklet.
Hootie & the Blowfish have received two Grammys over the band’s decades-long profession.
In 2008, Rucker perceptible that Hootie & the Blowfish have been occurring a several-year hiatus and he’d be pursuing a solo profession in nation song. He next clarified that the band used to be now not splitting up, and so they persevered to accomplish at diverse occasions.
More recent Rucker fanatics would possibly know him from his nation hits, along with his most famed arguably being his 2013 mega-hit “Wagon Wheel,” which earned him a Grammy for Easiest County Solo Efficiency.
Hootie & the Blowfish introduced a reunion excursion in Dec. 2018. The 44-city Workforce Treatment Excursion with Barenaked Women began in Would possibly 2019.
Rucker lately made headlines for his Feb. arrest, stemming from a site visitors oppose in Tennessee the 12 months prior to. When police searched his automobile, they discovered what used to be suspected to be a THC pen in conjunction with 14 unmarked pink capsules that he claimed got to him by means of his female friend, Summer season.
Extra checking out perceptible the capsules have been psilocin — a Time table I managed substance related to psilocybin or spell mushrooms.
Rucker used to be crash with two counts of straightforward ownership/aimless change of a managed substance and one depend of violation of Tennessee’s automobile registration legislation. He pled refuse duel and used to be sentenced to 11 months and 29 days of probation, consistent with WKRN.
The singer next spoke in regards to the incident.
“It sucks,” Rucker told People in Would possibly. “Fifty-seven years, never seen inside of a police car or jail, and I get busted for that.” I cruel, I regarded again at that and I used to be like, ‘I got stopped by a police officer and I had a little bit of pot, and I think a little bit of some mushrooms or something in the car, and he let me go.’ And a 12 months next I were given a telephone name from a good friend that mentioned, ‘I think I just saw an arrest warrant for you.’ It stunned me. And I’m dealing with it with my legal professionals, and paying the fee, and we’ll journey on with our lives.”
