| "Southern Style" | ||||
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| Single by Darius Rucker | ||||
| from the album Southern Style | ||||
| Released | May 4, 2015 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:58 | |||
| Label | Capitol Nashville | |||
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| Producer(s) | Frank Rogers | |||
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"Southern Style" is a song recorded by American country music artist Darius Rucker. It was released to radio on May 4, 2015 as the second single from his fourth country studio album of the same name. The song was written by Rucker along with Tim James and Rivers Rutherford. [1]
Website Taste of Country reviewed the single favorably, saying that "The title track from Darius Rucker’s Southern Style album is thick with imagery. Not since Buddy Jewell’s “Sweet Southern Comfort” has a song about the South been so easy to embrace." [1]
The music video was directed by Peter Zavadil and premiered in July 2015. [2]
| Chart (2015) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [3] | 38 |
| US Country Airplay ( Billboard ) [4] | 33 |
Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band formed in Columbia, South Carolina in 1986. The band's lineup for most of its existence has been the quartet of Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, and Jim Sonefeld. The band went on hiatus in 2008 until they announced plans for a full reunion tour in 2019 and released their first new studio album in fourteen years, Imperfect Circle.
Darius Carlos Rucker is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. He first gained fame as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, which he founded in 1986 at the University of South Carolina along with Mark Bryan, Jim "Soni" Sonefeld, and Dean Felber. The band released five studio albums with Rucker as a member and charted six top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Rucker co-wrote most of the songs with the other members of the band.
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