14 years after the debut of Hootie & the Blowfish‘s first album, Cracked Rear View, Darius Rucker released his first solo country record, 2008’s Learn to Live. The 2008 album ended up doing quite well, especially the record’s third track, “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It,” which took home the No. 1 Billboard’s Hot Country Songs spot in October 2008.
The tune, which depicts a narrator revisiting a past relationship, was featured on Rolling Stone magazine’s ranking of “The 200 Greatest Country Songs of All Time.” Rolling Stone placed “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It,” penned by Rucker and Clay Mills, at the list’s 174th spot.
Darius Rucker Discussed Making ‘Learn to Live’ in a 2009 Interview
In a 2009 interview with Digital Rodeo, Rucker discussed the debut of Learn to Live. He explained that while the album was in the country genre, he “didn’t feel like [he] was singing different or writing different” from when he was working on pop rock records for Hootie & the Blowfish.
“I just felt like I was making the record I wanted to make,” said Rucker during the interview.
In addition, he said he was “so, so worried about being accepted” among country fans because he was “coming from the pop world,” and was relieved when Learn to Live was celebrated.
“For radio people to have just said, ‘Okay, hey, we don’t care what everybody else does, what do you got?’ And then they heard it, and they liked it. To be accepted like that was when I really saw how real country music is, how there’s no BS here. It’s just real, and if you got the song, it doesn’t matter what you look like or where you’re from,” said Rucker, now 60.
While speaking to Digital Rodeo, Rucker also noted that Mills and producer Frank Rogers helped him write Learn to Live. He explained that making his 2008 country album “was so different” because he had been the solo songwriter for Hootie & the Blowfish.
“So when I started doing this, I really realized how songwriting in Nashville is a science. And it’s so beautiful,” said the musician.
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