#Darius rucker driver
Michael Waltrip was my driver for a long time until he retired.
Yeah, Jimmie Johnson’s my driver, he and I are real good friends. I’ve been to a lot of NASCAR races, but those Indy cars were just - man, they’re fast. This year, I was there with my kids, and we were just shocked at how fast those cars are going. I’ve been to the 500 before, but it was more about the party. We caught up with Rucker on the road - at 9 a.m., because one of the most successful country artists on the planet also has kids - about NASCAR, “Purple Rain” and how he ended up playing Jesus in a backseat with Billy Ray Cyrus. He’ll be drawing from his five successful solo records - he’s easily the most successful African-American country artist since Charley Pride – and a few songs from Hootie and the Blowfish, who you remember if you owned a machine that played music in the 1990s. It’s not a bad Saturday, is what we’re saying. Rucker will be on his own tempo when the “Good for a Good Time” tour to a Saturday night that already sees local performances by Justin Bieber, Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples. “There’s a guy on the radio with the pilots telling me ‘Stretch it out, stretch it out.’ I was like, ‘Man I’m stretching as much as I can! What do you want me to do, scat in the middle?” “You have to sing it at the right time, the planes might be late, the planes might be early,” Rucker laughs. There are, and he did, and it was an honor - just one that required timing the big finish to the roaring appearance of two F/A-18 Hornets and two E/A-18G Growlers. “I get a phone call from my manager and he says, ‘They want you to sing the anthem at the Indy 500,’ Rucker says, “I was like, ‘There are so many singers in the world - they want me to do it?” Darius Rucker’s Saturday night show should be a little less stressful than his last appearance in Indy, when he had to sing to 350,000 people and time his performance to fighter planes.
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